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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! Reading these comments, I felt terrible.

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The Advantages Of Online Strategic Planning

fusionSpan

A well facilitated online strategic planning process has the opportunity to be the opposite of what is on the list above. So for some groups Zoom and a google doc, and the occasional Jamboard, will be a perfect match. Something as simple as asking them to open a google doc and write their name at the top of the document.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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What is cloud computing?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Clearing Up the Cloud at NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit

Tech Soup

Full-fledged applications that live in the cloud: for example, Google Docs , Microsoft Office 365 , Zoho , or NetSuite. A few that I noted were: Cloud tools facilitate real-time collaboration. Cloud Opportunities (The Good Stuff). There are many potential benefits to using cloud tools. Cloud Challenges (The Less Good Stuff).

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

How’s it going, doc? For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge. And I wanted to say one more thing, which is that I am generally when I do teaching and training, I am always paying attention to the expressions on participant’s faces. Are you confused?

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