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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

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In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. I was able to rearrange an area for viewing presentations slides and have enough space for participants to move around for full group exercises.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Depending on the learning objectives, you could even skip the slides altogether, or adapt them for a pre-work activity. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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

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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. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. organizational change, and technology. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

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Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media.