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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application. Three Ways to Think About Content.

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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

To subvert the issue of a faceless sea, our Network Engagement team follows several practices to make it ( and all our trainings ) as engaging as virtually possible. . If you are lecturing, showing slides, otherwise not engaging the audience for more than 10 minutes, something needs to change. Welcome everyone. Break it up—or don’t!

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

The last 15 minutes of the meeting are set aside for me to interact with the volunteers and update them on operational changes or news from other parts of the Smithsonian. I make a point of varying the format , sometimes using polls or breakout rooms for smaller group discussion and brainstorming.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Interactive Exercises. Learning Styles.

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Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Putting that into approach into practice is not always easy or fast as Debbie explained in her talk. She made her point by doing a quick poll of people in the audience. We are interacting, we are paying attention to each other, having a conversation. This subtle shift was applied to their social media and communications strategy.

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