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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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I also had an opportunity to attend a couple of sessions that used participatory facilitation techniques. If you are new to participatory facilitation techniques, use the Spectagram as an opener and use it to better understand skill levels in the room. a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself. Spectragram.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

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There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. A more participatory approach, and one that Allen Gunn uses, is to crowdsource provocative questions from participants. a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself. Just A Little Content To Get Started . Learning More.

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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. One thing you''ll notice when you walk in is a ton of user-generated content. comfort creative placemaking cultural competency design interview participatory museum'

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

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I’ve been facilitating design labs for nonprofits and foundations, and continue to be excited about them because it is a way to generate feedback and ideas that can improve a strategy or program in service of the participants being served. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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Fashion and Passion for Your Cause: Wear it on Your Blog or Profile!

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One particular quote jumped out at me, "The Facebook generation wears their causes like the way they wear their favorite fashion." This month's fashion statement is gray and green to match the colors of Creative Commons logo. I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Here's just three people/content connections on this topic that I found from Technorati search: A search on "tags" lead me directly to a YouTube channel from the Youth Health Alliance and a series of youth-created videos on nutrition, including the one above that explains why it is better to drink green tea versus software drinks.

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