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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Three Ways to Think About Content.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Games for Change 2011: Channeling Our Collective Power

Tech Soup

Playing games has pushed into the primetime market, and with that statement, Chris Swain , CEO and Founder of Talkie, displayed a slide that showed weekly audience numbers for the wildly popular social game, FarmVille, towering above primetime television shows such as Dancing with the Stars , NBC Sunday Night Football and CSI.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. The challenges: Explosion of online media channels. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process. A multi-screen world.

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Guest Post by Michael Hoffman: Why Nonprofits Should Be on YouTube

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm honored to republish his post which includes his slide deck. The changes are too numerous to mention but the quality has improved, user control has improved and what people expect to find on YouTube and how they interact with it has also changed. Fill your YouTube Channel with Favorites from complimentary organizations.

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Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts

NTEN

The presentation slides have been uploaded to Slideshare. This was one of our most interactive webinars - it was filled with community organizers, after all - the Twitter stream and chat channel were delightfully out of control! Check out the event Storify Praan put together.

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Notes from Mari Smith Facebook Changes Webinar: Privacy Settings and A New Metric – People Talking About

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The subscribe option gives you another channel to share public information related to your work or professional life. The good news is that barriers to interacting on your page have been greatly reduced. It is not as critical to focus on building up the fan base. Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About.

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