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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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No Sweat DIY Infographics

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After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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Survey existing donors on what compelled them to support you before. Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Survey existing donors on what spurs them to give quickly when appealed to.

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The Happy Healthy Data Nerd: Using Your Personal Health Data to Support Your Wellbeing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. As someone who loves using data for decision-making, I found the health data generated by my Fitbit was highly actionable. How much sleep does your body actually need?

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Five Ways to Help Your Nonprofit Learn from Feedback (and Earn More Funding Too!)

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Alison Carlman, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, has written this guest post about how to use some tools and techniques for using feedback. Telerivet allows you to conduct a mobile phone survey of them—or anyone—with a mobile phone through SMS (no internet or smartphones needed.) Share your learning with your stakeholders.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. It makes me wonder about the various techniques for getting people to shift attention from small group to large group. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Photo by Nelson Layag.