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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective.

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Just One Good Tip To Address Nonprofit Workload Stress

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a group, I have participants take an online poll or do an exercise with sticky notes, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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How Nonprofit Professionals Can Manage Workplace Stress Triggers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a group, I have participants take an online poll, answering the questions, “What are your workplace stress triggers?” Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over.

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A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People in Philadelphia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. Here's how.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

I have a poll question for you. I’m going to end the poll, if that’s all right. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So my longest time group of people that I’ve worked with is called Volunteers of America North Louisiana. Steven is going to bring it up.

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

But first what I want to do is just ask Steven to launch a poll to gauge where you are right now with regard to feelings about promoting legacy giving in your nonprofit. So the poll is just sticking up here. It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. Okay, there we go.

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

Bloomerang

Andy: So we’ll see if the poll works. So if the poll is launchable, launch it. Perhaps this is obvious to say to the group, but more is better, more often is better, deeper engagement is better. ” And out of the 30 groups, only 3 sent back a note to him. . If not, chat will work for this.

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