article thumbnail

Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

Was the content dull and irrelevant? No one wants to listen to a stoic facilitator pontificate behind a lectern reading lame PowerPoint slides. They don’t follow a script. Are your board members cringing at the thought of attending another retreat? Were they unengaging?

article thumbnail

Nonprofit Presenters: What are your best tips for preparing presentations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love doing presentations, the preparation, creating the content, and the performance. In his workshops, he offers the following formula for a storytelling based on Hollywood script writing: Introduce the central character. Tags: powerpoint. Next month will include NTEN's NTC. Andy is a master at storytelling.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You've got to set your ideas free, you can't control your content. You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. I generally like to have visuals, a place for my script, and links. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

article thumbnail

My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. minute videos, map out the screencast before you actually film it, create a storyboard, write a script, use music. There's some execellent content there. Naturally, everything from and about it is immediately available online. no more than 3.5

article thumbnail

6 Powerful Types of Video Content Every Nonprofit Needs

Nonprofits Source

In short, this means that the written content is going out of fashion and is no longer the dominant form of communication. Types Of Video Content. Online video content is no longer “just another piece” of your overall content marketing plan. Building A Better Online Video Content Strategy.

Video 85
article thumbnail

Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference.

article thumbnail

NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like).

Nptech 50