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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Facilitated listening is made up of a number of techniques described in more detail in the book. This includes: 1.

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What can nonprofit technology trainers learn from the social work field to improve their training techniques?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading. It is about simply learning how to use a new tool or technique. During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Group Polling Techniques and Tools and Incorporating Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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How To Thrive On Information Overload

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and 25 years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value. More specifically, he shares simple actionable techniques for staying ahead in an accelerating world and massive amounts of information – for many of us, information overload.

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The Knowledge is in the Room: How To Let It Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the other hand, people do want those tips and best practices. So, letting the knowledge out in the room is a balancing act of peer interaction with expert insights. Don’t Just Research Your Audience, Make Them Part of the Presentation. So, how can you do that in a keynote with several hundred people in the room?

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How To Thrive Amidst Information Overload

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and 25 years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value. More specifically, he shares simple actionable techniques for staying ahead in an accelerating world and massive amounts of information – for many of us, information overload.

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Content Strategy for Digital Collections: Archives, Libraries, and Museums

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Whether a digital content creator or a researcher assembling resources, curation seeks to answer these two questions: What is it you are trying to say? Audience research is invaluable in this case in understanding the wants and needs of target audiences. What does your collection represent? Fostering audience relationships.

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