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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. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Medium: Up to 50 people.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When they are lined up by comfort level, I have been doing a quick poll to see where generations appear along the line. Varying the delivery improves retention. Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. Full Transcript: Steven: All right. Lori: I think we should.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Knowledge: Subject matter expertise, research, polling, case studies. Every tactic here is as much about retention and appreciation as it is about perks. Observe your community research as it happens (polling, focus groups, town halls). Can you adapt the training for donors as a group teaching session?

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[VIDEO] Best Practices for Recurring Donor Acquisition

Bloomerang

So let me start right away with a poll here. So I’m just going to launch our first poll here. I have a couple of polls today. I’m going to end the polls and see what it looks like. So you could be teaching that webinar today. The other thing is the retention rates go up. All right. Erica: Okay.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. But first what I want to do is just ask Steven to launch a poll to gauge where you are right now with regard to feelings about promoting legacy giving in your nonprofit. So the poll is just sticking up here.

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