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What’s Your Calling?

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Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

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Flickr Photo by Matthew Field. Even more importantly, what motivates them. It may seem odd to bring up online ads before you’ve analyzed your audience, but running experimental Facebook ads can teach us a lot about who we’re trying to reach. ” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.”

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

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Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. Trainer becomes the student and has another participant guide them through the same steps. Trainer becomes the student and has another participant guide them through the same steps. Use participant examples of part of your presentation or have them share.

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Storytelling As Social Media Conversation Gasoline

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Flickr Photo by Lab2114. It means that you don't assume that the your students, participants, stakeholders, or audience knows nothing and that your job is to fill them with knowledge. It means asking questions and letting the audience, your students, or your stakeholders teach you. Impressive. What does that mean?

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Big Paycheck or Service? Is There a Middle Way?

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Students are Put to Test , about graduates who go into school with high ideals for changing the world, but come out working for big business. Only when the prices change will students' choices change. Seems to me that students need to be taught how to prioritize and balance time, money and passion. Flickr photo credit: Middle.

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Durff's Slide Show: Why Integrate Blogging

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The title slide - "Teaching to Transform" should be a second or two longer and then hit me a visual that shows "transformation" -- maybe a bored student and then an engaged one. Search on flickr using creative commons licensing. Did you have to use your own photos as part of the assignment?

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

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Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.