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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters. see above).

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

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Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter. Can we calculate it if we haven't done anything yet?

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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?

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identifying the new ways of working you want to see or articulating a new set of beliefs and values associated with them. Changing a nonprofit culture isn’t as simple as. Most people won’t change their behaviors until they observe the role models in their organization acting. differently as DoSomething.Org has done.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

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And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . And I’ll let you bring up your beautiful slides, and the floor is yours, gentlemen, so take it away. . Also, a little shout out to our colleague Kevin Wilson who’s managing the slides for us at Harvey’s office. So good news.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. Fourth, you need to find a way to evaluate what visitors do – and more importantly, to evaluate using criteria that are understood and appreciated by everyone in your institution. There are several good resources on evaluating participation.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

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Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. This is particularly true when it comes to project evaluation. Here are a few elements that really resonated for me.

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Reflections: Social Media and NGO/CSR Workshop in India

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You can find my materials and slides on the workshop wiki - CSR and NGO workshops, but always like to do a reflective wrap up post. I was also impressed with the report out, not only were they brief and to the point, but they were able to clearly articulate social outcomes in the social media strategy. Evaluation.

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