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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. The physical space where you deliver your training is just one piece of the instructional design puzzle.

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How to run a successful hybrid meeting

Candid

It’s also an important consideration to ensure meetings, including yours, aren’t derailed or delayed, especially when conference rooms are booked back-to-back. Similarly, your meeting room may only have two outlets available, but there are eight in-person participants who will need to charge their laptops.

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Curtis Memorial Library: A Tradition of Local Support

DipJar

They’re so much more than book museums. Not a librarian by training, she started her career in public relations before moving into nonprofits. Laptops and hotspots were offered. More power stations and a laptop bar. At DipJar, we love our customers. Public libraries are some of our favorites. The solution?

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Participants Own Their Learning.

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Does This Deserve My Attention?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter greeted me at the airport and as I got into the car I noticed a copy of Rheingold’s book NetSmart in the back seat. It is a simple, elegant way to train your attention while working online to keep mindful how you are spending your time. Her work was the inspiration for Rheingold’s book (the mindfulness chapter).

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.). ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness.