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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

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I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource. If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well.

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7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur). Reading, reviewing, commenting, writing, and editing content.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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

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I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These skills might be as simple as creating pivot charts on excel, importing data from multiple sources into one spreadsheet for analysis or what DJ Patel calls ‘Data Jujitsu,” doing a statistic analysis, setting up a conversion analysis in google anlaytics, and other technical skills. .” The skills are out there.

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