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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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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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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

Cloud 4 Good

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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Monitoring Online Feedback Means Strategically Sorting Through Our Social Space

NTEN

Making sense of the never-ending flow of information, keeping ourselves focused – all while ensuring that no one at the water park of our organization has a sunburn at the end of the day – involves a constant state of learning, adaptability, and growth. Find the biggest slide. Then you can start engaging them in those conversations.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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