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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 13, 2018
Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 23, 2013
When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 18, 2013
More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. Visualization techniques – from note-taking to creative idea generation.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 25, 2008
Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.
Global Giving
JANUARY 21, 2015
That experience stuck with me and over the next few weeks I designed a way to take advantage of a similar psychological cue on GlobalGiving. Eventually I decided to have a small, unobtrusive box slide out from the page’s lower corner a few seconds after the it loaded, and make a similar appeal. Part 1: The Foot-in-the-Door technique.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 4, 2020
Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. Virtual meetings that are not well designed and facilitated can also mean a loss of productivity. See slide 30 for a simple recipe for doing this exercise as part of a virtual meeting.
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 28, 2009
You can now view the video in its entirety via YouTube here (or by clicking play above), and you can download Jane’s slides here. Games are happiness engines that are designed to support these four things. I'm not suggesting that games don't induce happiness, or that game mechanics are not powerful design agents of change.
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