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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

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An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. FrontlineSMS:Medic - SMS for Medical Records and Mobile Lab Diagnostics.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

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Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. That goal means that a wiki is useful, because participants can contribute segmented content and then work with facilitators to decide how to organize it. So when do wikis work?

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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

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I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. In addition to the Networked Nonprofit , I brought copies of books from colleagues that might be of interest to local NGOs.

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