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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Three Ways to Think About Content.

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22 Ways to Stay Connected with Your Schools Alumni on Facebook

NetWits

The other 12 are in the slides - Social Media for Schools: 22+ Ways to Stay Connected with Your Alumni on Facebook - located at the very bottom of this post. From the first time you interact all the way through graduation – take every opportunity you can to get them to engage with you on Facebook. Make sure to check them out.).

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4 steps to successful virtual events for your association

Nimble AMS

For example, how can you make the online learning experience interactive? Perhaps you can offer ways for online attendees to ask questions and provide comments. Collect slide decks and/or pre-record content. One of the key elements that makes an on-site event appealing is interactivity. Get feedback.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

The last 15 minutes of the meeting are set aside for me to interact with the volunteers and update them on operational changes or news from other parts of the Smithsonian. This addition is a slide show of photographs that the volunteers email to me. For both shows, I used PowerPoint to create the slides and captions.

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Multi-Year Gift Agreements: Your Donor Retention ‘Ace-In-The-Hole’

Bloomerang

While the full 2023 data has not yet been compiled, FEP has found that, through Q3 2023, donors decreased moderately and donor retention continued to slide, driving a slight decrease in fundraising dollars. Each interaction is a chance to reinforce their decision to support your cause and to deepen their commitment.

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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. Here are three ways in which you can keep your presentation alive: First: Balance between presentation and interaction. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions.

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A reflection from two talks

NCE Social Media

It’s not always the number of posts retweeted or share, number of likes, number of people following you on social media or even the number of comments. Just because you have an agency page on Facebook doesn’t mean everyone will interact and engage with you on it. How do you measure success using social media?