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

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You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). Participants took the assessment and we saw the aggregate results. In other words, to what end?

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A Couple Really Interesting Social Media, ROI, and Nonprofit Links Worth A Click

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Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Community: refers to the idea that social media facilitates sustained collaboration around a shared idea, over time and often across space. Here's the slide.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

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blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. In my initial analysis of mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet , I did not look at hashtags. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. This takes some facilitation.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

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One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally. I know there are many wiki patterns - how they evolve, are they are facilitated, what works, what doesn't -- just read Stewart Mader's book. I didn't facilitate it, but I participated. Leave a comment and point to them.

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Cross Blog Discussion: NpTech Tag

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I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Post 2 : Facilitating Blog Discussions.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

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Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . Robot Voice Disguiser for Large Group Facilitation.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. Hashtag Stats.