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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a number of peer learning exchanges on measurement with grantees, including Global Giving and learned about their storytelling project which is an attempt to measure the effectiveness of how dollars raised are being used to create social change.

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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

TechCrunch

While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists. “We They didn’t work with machine learning extensively, so we decided to build tools for technical non-experts.

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The Impact of Your Donation: Ray Smith, 14LCS Scholarship Recipient, Shares

NTEN

This was my first experience with NTEN, a great organization that I think really “gets it,” both in terms of facilitating positive interactions with people and technology, and understanding challenges specific to the nonprofit world. Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS? 14LCS was a transformative experience for me in many ways.

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Social Network Management Systems?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Where traditional social networking is about connecting individuals, Crabgrass is social networking to facilitate network organizing. at 8:46 am Your readers may be interested to know about an NLE – Network Learning Management. Scholar360 is an LMS-SN (Learning Management System and secure Social Network), also called an NLE.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. She also publishes the Top Learning Tools Index , a crowdsourced list of the best technologies for networked learning.

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What are Learning Management Systems (LMS)?

sgEngage

An LMS is a valuable tool within many K–12 schools and higher education institutions because it simplifies educating a group of individuals at any level of instruction. Six LMS Benefits An LMS is a critical tool for many education institutions because it simplifies the process of creating, sharing, and analyzing educational content.