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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I always do a participant assessment to understand their experience, knowledge, and attitudes related to the topic – for the most part social media and networked nonprofits. ” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content. Lay it out where you can really look at it.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Your design is not just about content. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

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You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Speak With Numbers Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” Let’s start with a definition first. And, those who wanted to make money would head to Wall Street. That’s changed.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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Data and Story Telling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

Forum One

You can make a big impression of site visitors just by presenting them clearly, and in context with your web content. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers are a universal langauge.

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