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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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Simple Ways To Reduce Virtual Fatigue for Nonprofit Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have a few fun ones that I do on zoom such as “catch the stretch” where people follow each other’s stretches like a game of follow the leader. It comes from Eric Jenssen , a teacher, who had his students leave the zoom call mid-class. Photo by Eric Janssen. Too often we don’t do it!

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

it makes sense that, finally, designers would begin to look past the frivolous and fun aspects of their gear and towards truly worthwhile applications. Imagine this scenario: instead of staring at a wall map of foreign lands, students can don some hi-tech headgear and be transported to those places in a 360-degree virtual world of images.

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Nonprofit Donor Engagement Strategies: Breaking Through the Noise

Neon CRM

For example, imagine you host an “ask me anything” session and learn that your supporters are deeply interested in your new summertime lunch program for students. Try teaching people a fun fact or statistic related to your work. You could also try teaching them a fun new skill. These techniques can help.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

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.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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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 morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Fluency in social media skills. Photo by SMEXbeirut.