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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? I know for myself that I don’t learn, retain, or apply when content is endlessly shared – even from expert – without a break.

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7 Video Conferencing Tips To Get You Through Social Distancing—And Beyond

Global Giving

If you have multiple speakers, make sure you are prepared by having everyone’s slides on one person’s account, to help with the flow, and to minimize the chances of technical difficulties in switch screen sharing constantly. Use more slides than you think you need, and think visually. Best of luck! Want more tips like this?

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1 Million Trailhead Badges: Lessons from Salesforce.org’s Trailhead Journey

Saleforce Nonprofit

In early 2018, a band of adventurers who came to be known as the Salesforce.org Trailhead Editorial Board set out to reach customers, partners, and pro bono volunteers with a comprehensive menu of skills-based training. Map out your strategy: Literally, draw your map of content and audiences on paper or a slide.

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Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workplaces: How To Kick the Sit Out It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This conference is an opportunity for executive directors to build skills in resilience as part of a day-long seminar. I was invited to teach an interactive workshop based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit on how to link self-care with well being in the workplace. It comes from MIT’s U-Lab. You can learn more about it here.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. I nominate #14ntctrain. ntenorg [link]. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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3 Key Takeaways from Gearset’s DevOps Dreamin’

Cloud 4 Good

Event planners took this fact to heart in building a conference agenda that was a nice combination of roadmap previewing and a range of how-to, hands-on, and both technical and non-technical content. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner.

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