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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques.