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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. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Spectragram.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

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We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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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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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

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Evaluation is not about getting to a best practice that can be spread around the world in a standardized way and to answer the question, “Is everyone following the recipe?” New questions, challenges, and opportunities for success are emerging. A willingness to engage about what to do to make your program better.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

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New Zealand Workshop: Burning Questions. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. What question do they want to answer by the end of the day? I’ve used the burning question technique in many different ways over the years, this is an example of one way to do it.

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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.