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3 Top Learning Strategies You Need To Change The World

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Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. Why not try a little writing exercise right now? How we learn is super important, as it’s the foundation of our ability to succeed.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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The One Secret To Better Virtual Meetings: Empathy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A common scenario is where the majority of meeting participants in one location, a conference room, and are trying to collaborate with a handful of invisible partners on the other end of phone line or video conference call. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing. The exercise teaches empathy.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Online Interaction Tools To Engage Your Audience in the Room and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. I experimented with using the polls as part of the opening exercise in the workshop. I did not have a remote audience.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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E-Mediat Day 3: Digital Activism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast. To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. We did an exercise to identify keywords and I demoed several tools. The principles that resonated most: Changing Fortress NGOs to be more transparent and working with free agents.

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