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E-Mediat Day 4: What does it mean to be a social media trainer?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. Here are the instructions. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Taking 18 Minutes Day Towards A Year-Long Focus

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Flickr Photo by Sebr. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. This is similar to the pomodoro technique.

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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Flickr Photo by qwrrty. In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations. Reflective Listening Techniques. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person.

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Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

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Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. Text Notes: Every session has volunteer note takers writing notes in a google document.

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WeAreMedia: Help Us Crowdsource A Hollywood Ending

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A series of short-tactical workshops at the 09NTC that included: Blogging , Podcasting , Video , LiveStreaming , and Flickr Bootcamp. When we started this project, there were only a handful of instructional resources geared for nonprofits on how to use social media strategically. What are some tips and techniques?

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Organizational Social Relationship Models and Strategies

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Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. I asked how she did that and she pointed me over to these simple how-to instructions ). (I

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.