Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. How about you? I did it! I’m now am feeling refreshed and recharged for a new year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

They focus on the content, not the design of learning activities. Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

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. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation. With icebreakers, for example, you can use counting off or alphabetical order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. During the report out, I showed some additional resources or techniques and asked for advice in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Environmentalists will lecture you much about how the polar bears on the Arctic ice cap are so hopeless that you’ll want to jump off the iceberg yourself or ignore the issue. Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies. It means we have to be nimble and responsive.”.

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JUNE 27, 2008

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JUNE 18, 2018

For the last 17 years, Clark Aldrich has been pushing for education to break outside of both traditional media and strictly linear techniques. Meanwhile, learning through lecture or reading may take more effort to incorporate into one’s daily practice. Skills learned in interactive simulations have the potential to be applied directly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

I'm pleased to say that I've perfected my notetaking techniques and am more comfortable with the multi-channel chat and IM. At one point, one of the panelists was swimming while flying in the air - never seen that in a real life harvard lecture hall! This is an example of virtual grassroots fundraising. Except for two things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The Webinar format which lends itself to lecture is out of my preference zone. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. My blog commenters told me I had too much content in my initial draft. I think showing the Web 2.0 I knew I had too content.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Jane's and have been writing about her work since the early days of this blog, so I was thrilled to learn that the CFM was bringing in Jane to speak live and then opening up the lecture to a wider audience of about 300 online. For example, consider voting. This is not an argument that is specific to museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. How long do they stay?

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JUNE 25, 2021

So here’s a great example of that. The Veritas Group, if you don’t subscribe to their blog, you should because their blog is all about major gifts. And they put together an awesome blog. Give examples in your manual. So here are some examples of queries that you can do. It is so obvious.

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