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

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It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

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You don’t have to be the world’s best artist to create a respectable infographic to help you make sense of your data, but it does take a little consideration and small amount of inspiration. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

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Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this. Elements to include when studying techniques that inspire immediate action and applying those lessons: Analyze effective ad appeals – what motivates rapid response?

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

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I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

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The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter. So they used the technique of “OH&# or overheard.

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Presentation Zen Blog: A Resource Review

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All the technique, training, and "PowerPoint" tricks are useless if the talk doesn't come from your gut, from your heart and soul. Reynolds has an excellent Zelazny Cheat Sheet on how to figure out which charts and graphs to use to illustrate your point. Reynolds advises using color well because it evokes feelings and emotions.