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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Net Smart: How To Thrive Online

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Some points that particularly resonated and that I have been working on myself are: Mindfulness is about becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offline. Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

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The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. but there wasn’t an offline space for that. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. It was a beautiful exhibition, but no one was playing it.

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5 Essential CME LMS Features for Your Healthcare Association

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Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. Offline use with automatic sync. Instead, you should seek a CME LMS that can facilitate virtual events alongside CE programming. Responsive design.

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Personal Productivity Tips for Nonprofits

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Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online.

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