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How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. If you deliver training to nonprofits, what are your burning questions about design and delivery of interactive training? How To Design Transformative Capacity Building for Nonprofits. How To Get Started Designing Peer Learning That Works. Design Labs.

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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Making “I don’t know” an acceptable response to a question. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. And now, because I can insert a poll here, I’m going to. __. Talking about and planning the evaluation process well before the grant begins.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes. For this meeting, we asked two questions: What makes a meeting a good, productive use of your time?

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Free2choose and the Social Dimension of Polling Interactives

Museum 2.0

At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate. When you take a poll alone, there’s no suspense about how you voted. I was aching to ask these questions. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. with the issue.

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What the Museum Sell Out Game (Re)Taught Me about Participation Inequality

Museum 2.0

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. On platforms with many participatory options, more people are more active.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

One question Farm Radio International is currently looking into is what made these repeat users call again and again and really use the IVR. The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations.

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