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Tips To Make Online Meetings Less Exhausting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. An online meeting is more effective when you have at least two facilitators. Don’t wing it alone.

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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Meeting participants suggested that we invest in more accessible training and documentation – from video tutorials to more dynamic manuals – and facilitate users connecting to one another to meet capacity needs. What if you could quickly and easily import data from other formats, like a Word document, PDF file or photograph?

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

Museum 2.0

I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. Adults who were previously dependent on their children could now take the lead as confident facilitators.

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Publishing research? Move beyond the book with a web application

Forum One

Chances are still pretty good that these organizations capture their work, first and foremost, in formal reports that appear as hard-copy books and, in online form, PDF files. What if, however, users were able to use the research in a meaningful way to facilitate immediate decision-making?

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

Museum 2.0

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment.

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Social Media Club Workshop in Hawaii: Reflections on Social Media Game - Aloha Version

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  In order to play this version of the game, you absolutely need a mix of knowledgable people in the room to facilitate the small groups.  For those folks who asked if they could have copies of the card (the slide deck can be downloaded from SlideShare), the pdf files can be found here. Start today. I set up a wiki.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. State has established what seem to be some reasonable, limited, rules on online collaboration: "5 FAM 777 ONLINE COLLABORATION" ( download as PDF.). News: InformationWeek ? to agreements.