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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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The Dance Floor and The Balcony Social Media Training

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I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

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I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't?

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Reflections from Global s London Summit

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I think it was more intense than a Westerner's culture shock visiting Cambodia for the first time. I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. This was Tharum's first trip to the West and it was interesting to observe his initial culture shock. Technorati Tags: globals

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Penguin Day Reflections: OS as FairTrade, OS Feminism, and OS - the Next Generation

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" (Interesting that KhmerOS had a table at the Cambodia Fair Trade Expo ). I think that of advocates need to have open source technology stewards behind them to be successful -- there is a need for stewards to guide the choices, training, translators -- to help nonprofits adopt open source software.

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NGOS, Collaborative Technologies, and Interesting Women!

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The Conference focused on evolving techniques, tools, and ideas about collaborating across organizational boundaries and elsewhere. As Annette points out in her reflections about the conference, everyone was talking about how to connect more effectively, particularly in teams and meetings.