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Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques

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Ask a question, listen to the responses and aggregate them in summarizing statement like “Here’s the ideas that I hear in response to the first question, (xyz). Simply summarizing isn’t enough to get to your insights. As I was reading, I looked the aggregated answers and asked follow up questions.

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

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As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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Some Reflections. What the Hashtag is a simple tool for aggregating tweets into a transcript and some simple stats, but after experiencing Marc Meyerand Jason Breed ’s Hashtag Social Media Chat and their tool that aggregates tweets, I need to do some re-thinking. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Hashtag Stats.

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Critical Friends and A Reflection Process for Working Wikily

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The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Using Peer Learning Strategies To Build A Network

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How do you facilitate others on staff to create content when they might not be have strong content skills? What tools do you use to manage the your editorial calendar and content creation process? This session closed with a reflection of how they could apply tips and recommendations and use measurement to further test these ideas.

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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.