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Zero-cost, maximum-impact professional development for fundraisers

Candid

Tap into the power of collaborative learning Social learning, or observational learning, proposes that we learn by observing others, a process that that can foster increased self-esteem and reduced anxiety in educational settings. Another way to learn collaboratively is to form a “book-ish club.”

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Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Make it a Collaborative Learning Experience Instead of a traditional lecture, consider an interactive workshop format. The post Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership appeared first on Greater Giving Blog. Examples include who is in charge of volunteers at events, and how to thank volunteers for their service.

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Share Files and Collaborate Online with Box

Tech Soup

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. You can use Box's cloud-based storage and collaboration tools to replace traditional on-premises file servers and traditional file-sharing processes. Learn more about each of these organizations on the Box blog.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It incorporates many different ideas aligned with how people learn and how they learn best by moving away from the lecture and lecture notes and encouraging students to engage with their peers as they learn. Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy.

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How To Focus When You Work in An Open Office Space

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Gensler study suggests that employees need four different work areas to be productive: focus, collaborate, learn, and socialize. Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. Based on what I observed and heard, yes!

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Lili Wang

ASU Lodestar Center

Welcome to a new ASU Lodestar Center Blog series, “Get to Know the Lodestar Center!” I am also interested in the intersection of the government and the nonprofit sectors, which includes cross-sector collaboration, nonprofit provision of public services, etc. migrant associations, and government-nonprofit collaboration.

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Great reads from around the web on April 28th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We hope to establish a collaborative learning community — with plenty of space for ideas and wisdom of the field.

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