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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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SaaS vs. Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But there are other ways to be collaborative; really SaaS is built on collaboration. And with mashups becoming more and more popular, there’s a kind of meta-collaboration at work now too. .’ [Your captcha is asking me to type a slightly naughty word) 2 Mr Web Service 09.25.08 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Demetrio Maguigad Rocks the Social Media Game and My Remix Ideas

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find David's training games here.)     When I've used this exercise, I've tried to keep it focus on tools for either external communication or internal collaboration, although he does color code the outcomes (collaboratoin, media content/networking, etc.). .  

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Here's one of her training presentations. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. for NGOs there.

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Advancing Your Mission With GIS Tools

NTEN

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. In thinking about tagging, flickr, and rss tools, what are some ways that you can collaborate with others to create content or have your students create content? Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. Hiring people.

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