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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

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Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Don’t tolerate hidden agendas, negative attitudes, or behavior that’s disruptive to the group. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction. Be clear about accountability.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

Content is easier to produce and more effective when all communicators understand the desired outcomes.” Don’t tolerate hidden agendas, negative attitudes, or behavior that’s disruptive to the group. A facilitator can help sort through obstacles and guide people toward effective interaction. Be clear about accountability.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Your design is not just about content. That’s where a lot of trainers fall short.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. 1) Everybody is People.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

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Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. When I've talked with those same folks in bridged groups, they use more circumspect language (i.e. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. But those concerns are real.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funded the infrastructure, and less well on content. How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Translate what gamers do into the language of "normal traditional education" and out of school time learning? Looking at how to be less of training but more on learning. We need metrics!

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