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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. 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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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

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The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Illustration by Beth Kanter. That’s the theory at least.

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Wisdom 2.0: Living Consciously In A Connected World

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He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Chris Sacca quipped that he usually attends technology conference where most people in the audience are buried in their smart phones or laptops and that this conference was the one where felt the mostly everyone was paying attention to him. Don't live that way."

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

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Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). The Power of Social Learning: Online and Offline . I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning.

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Chris Brogan: What Were Your First Steps?

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I was networking weaving between the offline/online. Later, as more and more people created web pages, I would hand facilitate comments and did primitive crowd sourcing. I used my webcam attached my laptop as my first digital camera to record photos from a conference that I was taking notes for - and then publishing as web pages.

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The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes

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I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts for a session with arts marketers , and finally to Washington, DC to attend a briefing at the White House and to keynote the last BlogPotomac conference. Flickr Photo by Ghbrett. It reminded more of a saloon than a conference.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year.