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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. But there are challenges, too.

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Build a Digital Ecology–Promote IT Collaboration Across Your Organization

.orgSource

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Taking self-directed and collaborative learning a step further is peeragogy. This form of peer learning is at the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students. The ultimate test of peer learning is to organize a course without the direction of an instructor.

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Thank You Fernanda Ibarra: She's Number 7!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We met almost two years ago when we took the online facilitation workshop with Nancy White. I am a multiplayer giving a lot of focus into the Web (online communities, socialnetworks, collaborative learning). What is interesting to me is this cross-social network communication. We connected on Facebook.

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A Blueprint to Building a New Model of Community Care

Saleforce Nonprofit

Yet, we have found the strength of our team sits beyond our domain expertise of community feeding, and into our ability to serve as a facilitator and mediator between diverse stakeholders in San Francisco. We need your help and collaboration. Learn how other nonprofits have shifted their strategy.

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Harnessing Philanthropy to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Nonprofit Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

One of those best practices should detail that recruitment cannot be solely based on “who you know” since a homogenous workforce is likely to have a homogenous social network. Foundations facilitate diversity, equity, and inclusion: Partnering with community and nonprofits. OMG Center for Collaborative Learning.