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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

You will want to insure your business equipment, even if that's just a laptop. networking at conferences and workshops. You might need Errors and Omissions/Professional Liability if your actions or inactions could disrupt your clients' operations. You will need General Liability if clients will come to your office. Options include.

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

Cloud 4 Good

Perhaps my favorite moment from the DevOps sessions came during the “CI/CD Pipelines Workshop” with Piotr Zuralski. The session was so engaging and informative that, as soon as the session ended, I logged into my laptop and set up CI jobs in my project to get practice setting up my own pipelines. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’.

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? What lies beneath this?

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7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. Hopefully, your supervisor has lived through similar experiences and can offer advice and validation to help you. Taking seminars or attending workshops fundraising topics or professional skillscan be a real boost to motivation. Use these days.

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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project kicked off a year ago with a seven-day Train the Trainers intensive in Beirut, Lebanon for the in-country teams who would localize and implement the curriculum for five 3-day workshops that I designed. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Poster Sessions.

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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

It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. I think I made up the term " social instructional design " which is how you integrate social media tools into your workshop AND how you plan for engagement during delivery. When I design a workshop, I start with a simple framework.

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Take Aways from Blogher: Some Reflections and Personal Takeaways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amy Gahran gave a writing workshop at BlogHer that was very inspiring. I lent her my laptop so wasn't able to take notes at the time, but Amy Lenzo has a great summary on her blog. All of the advice about "getting to the point" is what I hope to put into practice in the coming months. Great exercise.

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