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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

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I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That is a typical problem-solving approach, taking on a given problem, working using your own opinions and experience to guide you, and with a solution in mind to be designed. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. That is not design thinking.

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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation.

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The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout

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Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. This is more a mind shift than anything else. ” It might suggest the need for professional development in teaching skills of up managing or being more assertive. Being Intentional About Your To Do List.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

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These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. His reflection " When do online/computer simulations add the most value ?

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

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In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. So every time I present or teach, I like to be really clear about what we will be talking about, what the outcomes for the session are.

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