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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

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We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Education. Around Gender.

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Election Day – Using Social Media Campaign Methods to Enhance Learning Programs

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But people from all over the US have had this date circled on their calendar for years. Granted the external drive for knowing this date may exceed that of the social media efforts utilized to inform of when people should show up. This will not only further facilitate learner engagement but also bring attention to learning efforts.

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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

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Staff are in one of three offices in California or are part of the Remote Team (R-team for short—people who work from their home communities, wherever those may be). That’s why the planners asked everyone to make connections at the retreat with at least 15 people they hadn’t known well before. Our retreat had plenty of good food.

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20 reasons for associations to love Salesforce

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Salesforce offers myTrailhead, which allows you to customize the Salesforce Trailhead learning environment with your own content and branding. Lots of events offering learning opportunities. Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. Fun and easy product training.

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Can Networks Have Social Impact?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," a community of practice facilitated by the Monitor Institute. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation.

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