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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

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Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. .”

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. Social Instructional Design.

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Tag Poetry: Playing With A Concept

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Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). Checked into their new delicious account and they are adding more links. I wondered outloud in a comment.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

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Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. Take for example, the collection of bookmarklets that have been created for delicious. But it required some editing to make it link the tag to Technorati. Here's the script.

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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Ideas to Explore

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And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. Or, you might allow each of them to make the best version of one delicious baked good, like the perfect chocolate chip cookies.

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Meet Marshall the Nonprofit Blogging Coach

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Do you have step-by-step instructions for feedburner?). I've been using it as a technorati tag at the end of relevant posts on my blog, I've been grabbing the delicious feed to watch what other folks are finding, and I've added nptech as a topic in my furl archive to contribute to the stream myself. How have you been using the nptech?

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