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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

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You also need to challenge participants thought processes and stimulate curiosity about what you are teaching. This includes meeting and greeting people, setting up the room for interaction, getting people to move around, to be actively involved with the content, and appreciating learners. This is an exercise I used in Tunisia.

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The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

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The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything. Have you visualized your professional network to help see connections and inform your own learning?

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E-Mediat Day 4: What does it mean to be a social media trainer?

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The national anthem from Tunisia brought tears to my eyes – in part – because feeling in which they sang it – and the team leader, Chema, has a beautiful singing voice. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. In the above video, Naeema Zarif.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

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Social media, particularly, have proven to be powerful and exceedingly important, especially as we watch the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Within an hour (and with a huge helping hand from social media), thousands had mobilized and gathered all over the United States to celebrate, remember, and embrace. All You Need is Love.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

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In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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Multi-Country Rollout of Salesforce to Support Workforce Development in the Middle East and North Africa

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After the first implementation with EFE-Jordan, Salesforce was gradually rolled out across EFE Affiliates in Tunisia, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, and United Arab Emirates. Throughout this expansion, Cloud for Good Managed Services helped ease transitions, train staff, and build capacity.

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