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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. The next exercise was about practicing awareness and openness.

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Kandi Wiens Today, Wiens shares these insights with us: Question: Why did you decide to write the book? I wanted to understand one big question – why do some people get burned out and others do not? Question: Of the five EI-based skills, which one is typically the most challenging to master and why? Try meditation.

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Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month with TechSoup

Tech Soup

Celebrated every October, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure all Americans have the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. Public libraries have always been champions of security and privacy, from keeping patron data secure to teaching Internet safety basics.

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How To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Through practical exercises, stories, illustrative case studies, chapter-by-chapter reflection questions and action items, you’ll learn how to harness the real and raw power of your mind to build solid workplace relationships for virtually any situation. Question: There is so much to learn from, Bridge The Gap.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for Latin American NGOs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes. This was part of an exercise to think through how a personal brand can support an organizational brand.