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8 Fantastic Facilitation Playbooks for Designing Productive Nonprofit Meetings

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Whether our meeting is useless or valuable depends on how we design, facilitate, and follow up. If you are facilitating the meeting you need figure out logistics like scheduling, materials, and effective use of technology for virtual meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory. Here’s my curated list.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii: Reflections on Social Media Game - Aloha Version

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Many thanks to Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells of the Social Media Club for organizing fantastic Social Media Workshop and inviting me to participate.   In order to play this version of the game, you absolutely need a mix of knowledgable people in the room to facilitate the small groups.    Hmm.

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Social Media Game: Kentucky Derby Remix for CNPE Conference

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Center for Nonprofit Excellent Workshop View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. I'm doing two workshops. tags: nptech nonprofits ). I'd bore myself.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

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It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. The poll revealed that revealed 40% were beginners/novices and 60% intermediate or experts. There were a lot of questions along the lines of "how much time does this take?" Why create a wiki for each workshop.

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Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources

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As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Social Media Is About Engagement With A Purpose and How To Measure It

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I recently heard this same idea from colleague Carie Lewis during our Measurement Workshop at SXSW. Here’s the basic how-to for generating traffic reports and some beginner advice from Google Analytics Evangelist. ” from Bundlepost (a social media productivity tool ). Advanced Segments.

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