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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. What to do?

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

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Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

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Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. One of the reflections. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

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Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. NetSquared is a globally-focused nonprofit organization working at the intersection of technology and social benefit work. First Place: $25,000.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record.

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The Networked Nonprofit in Kenya

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I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries.

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