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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. At the beginning of the summer, I taught a master class and workshops with colleague Tharum Bunn from Cambodia at the IFC/Asia. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Here’s what I learned.

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The Dance Floor and The Balcony Social Media Training

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OSI Workshop View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. I was also able to share the workshop wiki. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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The Interpretive Dance of Social Media Adoption

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In 2007, Michael Wesch , a digital anthropologist, created this striking video called The Machine is Us/ing Us , to explain in five minutes what the Web 2.0 In workshops, I'd play the video and have folks jot down words or themes. In the early days, the big hurdle was getting to shared understanding of what it really means.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

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My senior year of college I knew that I wanted to do work that made a difference, but I didn't know what kind of work that would be. You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. Take small steps.

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Target Facebook Challenge: Ten Large Charities Compete for Votes To Divide the $3 Million Pot

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on Facebook, Network for Good, Global Giving and Parade Magazine in 2007. Razzo by the way has been early pioneer in the online contest, having launched an early contest on Facebook shortly after it opened up to those older than colleges and again in October, 2007. This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Help Young Cambodian Bloggers Join the Global Conversation

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Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. This team has been working on a voluntary basis to conduct 14 workshops called ??? Keynote welcome.

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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

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Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. How do we go about getting to that place?