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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques.

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7 Techniques for Event Fundraising Success

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The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff. Providing email templates makes solicitation easier and helps save time – two common concerns of new or volunteer fundraisers. Register Now !

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Get More Out of AI, Start Chatting

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Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Then, define the primary user questions and corresponding answers. A machine-learning bot will require more technical expertise including utilizing algorithms and natural language processing techniques.

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Reflections on Twitter Chat Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s been a one-hour weekly chat on Twitter for the past 10 months organized and hosted by Marc Meyer and Jason Breed. The way it works is they invite a “host&# to ask 3 compelling questions, 20 minutes each, that revolve around a topical subject within the business of social media, but that play to their strengths or backgrounds.

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How to Leverage Email as a Recruitment Tool: 4 Strategies

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As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. completing a skills assessment during the same phase as the second round of interviews). Use automated personalization tools. Highlight value proposition. Create urgency.

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4 ways your site should support year-end virtual fundraising

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The answer to that last question is almost certainly your website. Answering these questions will be a great way to get started making UX improvements across your website. Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds.

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