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NYU Guest Lecture: Data for Strategy Building and Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Last week I had the huge honor of guest lecturing in Laurel Hart’s class for the masters course in Corporate and Organizational Communications at NYU’s school of continuing studies. You can also use these links to get the templates: Community Mapping template. Content Mapping template! Community & Content.

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Techniques and Tools: How To Visualize Your Network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. You can do a whole network analysis.

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Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future

Byte Technology

Imagine this scenario: instead of staring at a wall map of foreign lands, students can don some hi-tech headgear and be transported to those places in a 360-degree virtual world of images. —it makes sense that, finally, designers would begin to look past the frivolous and fun aspects of their gear and towards truly worthwhile applications.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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12 Ideas for a Virtual Fundraiser or Online Event

Get Fully Funded

Even though it’s virtual, you still have to promote the event, sell tickets or tables, get sponsors, and map out the program. Virtual Lecture: A virtual event is a fantastic opportunity to land a speaker you never thought you would be able to get. A virtual gala involves significant planning. And the weather!

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Building Immersive, Innovative Digital Experiences for Arts and Culture

Forum One

For example, during the pandemic and while the campus remains closed, AMFA offers online education and arts programming so a key feature of their new website was a comprehensive calendar integration platform to highlight virtual lectures, live performances and art classes. This became even more essential with the onset of the pandemic.

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Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, each person got to introduce themselves and their challenge, while the instructor, Pete Maher, expertly facilitated a network map on the wall. Being able to do concept mapping on the wall with sticky notes is a core technique in a number of the methods that we practiced throughout the two days.