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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

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We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding). Technique 2: Affinity Mapping. Technique 3: Creative Matrix.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

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Patton who is often referred to as the “Grandfather of Developmental Evaluation” and any starting point for understanding the methods begins with his book, “ Developmental Evaluation.” Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Opening Exercise.

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Majora Carter’s Eco-Entrepreneurship

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Majora realized that creating green projects and jobs empowers communities to see themselves in a different light, and that beautiful things happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

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Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

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I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Photo by Nelson Layag.