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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. What is Brainstorming? . see above). Do this for 10-15 minutes.

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Demetrio Maguigad Rocks the Social Media Game and My Remix Ideas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"    Use of Points When Selecting Tools:   He only gives participants a choice of 18 tools and it is a wide range (more technical tools like Drupal, Joombla, and Mashups), but they have a budget of 10 points - so this naturally leads to a discussion of priorities.  

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Discovery Exercise: 1. Discovery Exercise: 1. Additional Exercises. Discovery Exercise from Learning 2.0 : Setting up and using a Bloglines Account. Hiring people.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

"Citizen journalists" throughout the country collaborated to collect information about this violence; they received incident reports from thousands of citizens via web and mobile phone, collated the data, and displayed it on a Google Maps mashup. In 2008, post-election violence erupted in Kenya.

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GuideStar DonorEdge Learning Conference: Reflections from the Innovation Lab

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). Participants were challenged with an active listening exercise while two peers gave presentations on their work with data. Team 1: “Know Your Community: 5 in 10.”.