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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

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Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” ” As the word cloud appears on the screen, we discuss the triggers and reactions.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

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Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Note: This is an excerpt from our free e-book, The Noble Arsonist. You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter. ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.”

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Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

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Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book. I was curious about how hard or easy this step was for participants in the peer learning group at Packard and polled them. It is important to define and get broad agreement on what handful of data points will be most informative.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

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Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. So many times we book an hour meeting when we don’t need the whole hour and then we fill the time. Design must comes first. Then you are ready to tackle confirming the topic before combustion, which is the discussion and work around meaning-making and decisions. Why not just end early?

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

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Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? There is now a poll to vote on names suggested by people. A Blast from the Past Gavin has posted some really early photos of the founding meetings for Aspiration, NTEN, and the NSNT on flickr. This was a topic for an entire book called " Crazy Busy."

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What is a Widget?

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Based on photo entitled " Gear " from Flattop341's Flickr Industrial Set. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. For example, linking a poll to a post on the topic.

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