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SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session

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Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? I feel it stifles learning.

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Walking While Working

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My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. Last year, when I got may annual physical, my cholesterol numbers were not good. hours a day, which is more than we’re sleeping, at 7.7 Even in the nonprofit sector.

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Healthy and Productive Nonprofit Meetings: What Does the Research Say?

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That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. The best advice is to ask yourself if you need to schedule a meeting in the first place. But many meetings end up being a complete waste of time.

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The Secret Sauce for Productive Nonprofit Meetings that No One Talks About

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I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. It includes design and facilitation – and these days those are important leadership skills. There is lots of advice out there about how to design and facilitate meetings.

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Tips for Remote Presenting

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For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. We had planned our presentation to include content delivery and facilitated discussion – and it worked. I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

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It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

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In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. January 21.