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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants.

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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . Is it okay, if I go ahead and kick things off officially? So good news.

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Monitoring Online Feedback Means Strategically Sorting Through Our Social Space

NTEN

Once I knew where people talk about NTEN, I could start paying attention to what they were saying. Find the biggest slide. It’s also the place you can try out new experiments and ask questions – and count on consistent feedback. Scheduling your day will save your brain from the oh-so-common “what was I just tweeting about?”

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. Viral sharing.

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