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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a high level overview of some of the methods the small group of 12 participants used. It also helped us a group see the problem together – an important base for innovative thinking. We worked in small groups for the next process which helped us focus the problem a bit more. Our group generated 100 ideas!

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Midea president bans performative overtime and excessive PPT use within the company

TechNode

For exceptions such as technical plans, financial reports, and annual meetings, the document says PPTs must be limited to a page. Fang also advocates banning ghostwriting, after-hours meetings, excessive WeChat groups (work messaging groups), slogan-shouting, and formalistic daily reporting in the company.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? If you are going to incorporate group discussion, it is important to remember that there is low-risk and high-risk. What do you actually retain?

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. The second exercise was done in small groups and a report the whole group answering the questions, “What are your hopes and fears for the program?”

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. The “S” stands for slowest pace sets the pace for the group – it isn’t a race.

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26 great apps for your new 2020 Windows PC

The Verge

It’s more common than ever to see people using the service in business settings, fan communities, or just to chat with groups of friends. The Suite includes Writer (Word), Spreadsheets (Excel), PDF Editor, and Presentation (PowerPoint), which can open nearly all Microsoft Office formats (including.docx,ppt, and.xls, for example).

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We were lucky enough to locate the training at the America House Kiev which offered the dream combination of great lattes, flexible space, state of the art equipment, and super fast internet. The first day the room layout was in small groups, to encourage knowledge sharing and co-learning. Here is what they shared: 1.)