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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. The ideas can be captured on a flip chart or participants can write them down on sticky notes and post them on a wall. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. see above).

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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

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That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. I might have them sit and discuss a small group exercise, but the results are on the wall for a standing debrief. Here’s some examples.

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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

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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? Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief. What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply?

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. (tags: nonprofits roi ). Unique Blog Readers.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

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Incorporating movement isn’t just about stretch breaks, think about ways that participants can do discussions and small group exercises while moving or walking around. They help “air out the brain” and can help a tired group regain focus. I incorporate energizers into webinars (see slide 22) and virtual meetings.

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How To Develop a Social Media Plan in Five Easy Steps

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The original worksheet was developed from recommendations from the Spin Project and the " Smart Chart " developed by Spitfire Strategies.) Amy Sample Ward contributed a workshop group exercise based on Forrester's POST method. The section on strategy points over the some for-profit slides, but I might point people here.