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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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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

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This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Training Design' Photo by Be Chandra.

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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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Cambodia Bloggers Summit: Social Media Role Play, Social Media Game, and Angkun - Seeds of the Future

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The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Welcome to Beth’s Blog for the Next Decade

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Moving to this new blog put me in a reflective mood. My very first blog was about my trip to Cambodia to bring my son Harry home in February, 2000. I hand coded the html myself! I wrote about nonprofits, technology, and training. According to the stats in Typepad, my blog has had: 1206701: Lifetime Pageviews.

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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?