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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

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While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. How they use this technique : They anticipate the visitor’s emotional journey. 3) Bushfire Help.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

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Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Spectragram.

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

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The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Participants volunteer their question for the Spectragram.

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Integrating A Network Mindset Into Your Daily Work

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Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Model Network Weaving: Network weaving encourages rhizomatic behavior – so what better way then to model the techniques for others.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

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Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

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I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

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Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. It helps bloggers remember and use the best writing techniques. Technovist tells us how to be a green blogger and Emily's World gives a great list of environmental blogs. Social Bookmarking.

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