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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

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I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media.

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Expert Tips for #GivingTuesday Success

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Start gathering stories, statistics, videos and pictures that you can tag for reuse on #GivingTuesday. Tips from Andy Schroeder of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Diversifying marketing channels can lead towards connecting with a completely new donor base.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She is going to share with you all her secrets, her tool bag, and other tips for using social media to create instructional materials, research your audience, deliver your workshop and follow up. If this isn't enough, she'll be giving away three free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading for trainers.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. That's where I learned about a Twitter hashtag called #2amt - a channel for theatre artistic professionals to discuss their craft and trade and support one another. They were able to join the discussion in our Twitter channel. Tags: training materials.

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

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The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 4: Offer many ways to people to engage with your campaign.

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Guest Post by Gordon Mayer: Playing Learning Games to Spread Nonprofit Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. Tags: social media training materials. (Reflections coming soon!) Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. His reflections below. It's been in my head.