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

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I first met “Gunner” in 2003 at the NTC Conference in Oakland, CA and participated off and on in Penguin Days expertly facilitated by Gunner and other events like the TechSoup Global Network Summit. I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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The Networked Nonprofit Roundup: Bay Area Book Party 7/23

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This is a quick roundup of some of the wonderful reviews, blog posts, photos, and videos of The Networked Nonprofit. Join us on Friday, July 23, 2010, from 6 to 8 pm at Pro Arts Gallery ( [link] ) at 150 Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, a stone’s throw from the Oakland City Center/12th Street BART station. More information here.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way.

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Closing the Loop Between Social Media and Offline Action

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I was in Oakland, CA and discovered Fenton's Creamery , famous for its ice cream. But as a bonus, I learned from Facebook expert Mari Smith , that sandwich boards and window clings with Facebook and Twitter IDS are an effective technique to close the loop between offline and social media. The line was out the door.

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Webinar: Winning the Story Wars

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Jonah’s passion lies in exploring the crossroads of ancient storytelling techniques, social responsibility and emerging technologies. He lives in Oakland with his wife Chelsea, their daughter Mira, and son Orion. He also launched frogloop.com , a leading nonprofit marketing blog.

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Interview with Temra Costa, Author of Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat

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It's the best community you could ever want to be networking in, because there's always great food. City Slickers Farm is taking over a park, with the support of the city of Oakland. They're going to be growing some food in one of the downtown West Oakland parks, which is pretty exciting. Back to the models.

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Meet Michael Stein 2.0

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24th and that Michael Stein was one of the co-hosts, I assumed (wrongly) that it was Michael Stein , Internet Strategist from Oakland, CA. I see five Michael Stein's (not counting myself) in my LinkedIn Network, for example. programming techniques, tagging and social bookmarking, blogging and they need to be looked at separately.

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