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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Camera shy people learned that video is your best friend when you need to deliver an important message to a remote audience. Groups that developed a structure and schedule for online meetings managed their time and effort more efficiently. Lazy Communicators Got a Workout Words either make or break online relationships.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

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I can hide a yawn by turning off my camera, but that is the very thing I want to avoid. After two years of teaching online in a variety of formats and structures, one thing that I’ve realized is that when the camera is off, people may be long gone—or at least disengaged. . So, how does that translate to the Zoom Room?

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few tips include: use the phone instead, switch to asynchronous modes of working, or use a few camera tricks. Peer Assist: There are many ways to structure a peer assist where participants listen to each other’s challenges and provide advice. One of my favorites is called Troika Consulting from Liberating Structures.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

Hold the camera steady or use a tripod. The post How to structure your nonprofit social media plan appeared first on Get Fully Funded. When doing a live video, remember to repeatedly tell people where you are and what you are doing. Again, viewers will join and drop off, so make sure everyone knows what they are watching.

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How to Write Job Descriptions for Your Nonprofit

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Writing job descriptions is essential to building your nonprofit’s organizational structure and ensuring that employees understand their responsibilities. The job description defines the job, expectations of the role, and where within the organizational structure an employee falls. Including specifics about the role.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

The video calls have a consistent structure to them. At an all-staff meeting, we set aside time for each staffer to hold up a thank you sign to the camera. Since these loyal volunteers were (and are) on hiatus for an undermined period of time, I wanted to help them feel connected to SA and the Smithsonian.

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Virtual Meeting Check-Ins & Icebreakers During A Pandemic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can use the online whiteboard platform Mural for the drawing tools or ask everyone to use paper and pen and hold it up to the camera. CCC: This stands for the “Covid-Chat-Check-In” and is based on an exercise from Liberating Structures Playbook. Each person shares their drawing and you guess who it is.

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