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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

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I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

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In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. These two projects were always facilitated.

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Flickr As Mechanism To Reconnect With Professional Colleagues

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I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups!

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Can Stories Be Data?

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Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement?

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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Flickr Photo by qwrrty. For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. It is basically a pause.

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Get on the Bus: How Mass Transit Design Affects Participatory Potential

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Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. The bus stops where you want.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

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They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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