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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

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I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

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The best way I thought to keep in touch was to facilitate weekly 45-minute video calls on Zoom. I make a point of varying the format , sometimes using polls or breakout rooms for smaller group discussion and brainstorming. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” ” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. So, remixed my slide deck to represent the different points of view. 1) Audience Stand Up Poll: Whenever I talk about social media and nonprofits, we talk about audience.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

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If you didn't have a chance to participate, you'll find the slides, resource materials, and an archived recording over at the webinar wiki. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. What: The art of social instructional design. look here ).

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