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Designing engaging and effective learning experiences 

Candid

Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. Use digital storytelling techniques. Evaluate and iterate on learning experiences. What’s resonating?

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. It typically involves a substantial commitment of time, energy, and emotion. or “On what social channel can I find my audience?”.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Preparing for the Selection Process

Bloomerang

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Take some time to think through and write out all of the details. . Time-bound – By what date do we need to achieve the goal? .

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Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Backstory: we know they have time and need money / sometimes volunteers. Two that standout: In response to my question about how to avoid waiting time, someone responded that you need to have clear objectives and KPIs (Key performance indicators). What are your best Twitter moderation techniques? What was the experience?