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JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” for my journal or my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo. Bullet Journal is done by hand.

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MARCH 6, 2015

Photo by Jim Nickerson. Photo by Jim Nickerson. Leadership Technique: Leaders that do walking meetings can accommodate the many requests for their time. I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! The slides and resources from the session can be found here.

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MARCH 24, 2020

In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. Or the last photo in their phone. Here’s a write of this technique. Some of these were inspired by this tweet. Here’s a few: What are you grateful for today?

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MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? Photo by Devon Smith. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep.

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JULY 20, 2009

I could have created guest author accounts, but I could not figure out a way where I could approve a post in draft and have it also include photos. The google spreadsheet allowed me to easily grab the text and code for the original post, include a bio and photo, etc. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. This was useful for the introduction and pre-workshop activity, homework, and reflections.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. Saying no is a muscle that needs to be exercised daily. This year I’m incorporating a couple of techniques. This book is a gem.

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JUNE 18, 2014

He describes a simple technique of taking 5 minutes every morning to write down 3 important tasks to accomplish and then reminding yourself every hour as to whether you have completed those tasks using your iPhone alarm. And then reflecting at the end of the day for 5 minutes about what you accomplished.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Your website needs to be warm and engaging with plenty of stories, photos, video, and blank space for the eye to rest. Does my website reflect my nonprofit’s Brand Standards Guidelines? Does my website feature clear (not blurry), compelling, high-quality photos, images, and video? Visitor-friendly website.

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MARCH 15, 2011

A good technique is to have each panelist offer a five minute “talk from the heart&# presentation sharing their point of view on the topic. In order to do this, you need to give people a brief context and articulate the interaction rules. I suspect I’m not alone.

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MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. One technique I use is the “Burning Question” board. Connecting Up Master Class. Circle and Workspace in New Zealand.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Photo by James Leventhal. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Reflective Listening Techniques. Identify other people’s emotional states.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Photo by Gary Clark.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). I use photo documentation and also social media, for example, tweeting – and do a storify. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

Photo By h.koppdelaney. Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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MAY 11, 2010

Photo by HeyDee Almost a year ago, Allison Fine and I finished a reflection paper on the lessons learned from the first America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation. This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge.

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AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects.

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APRIL 25, 2020

Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Machine learning models reflect the underlying biases and inequities implied in the data used to train them. Featured Photo: Send 100 Girls to STEM Camp in Nigeria by Women's Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC). Learn about DataRobot’s AI for Good program.

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OCTOBER 31, 2007

I needed to spend Sunday with my kids who were more than happy to add another photo to the two-headed t-shirt collection. David Eckoff and Chris Brogan Photos by Steve Garfield. Chris Brogan and David Eckoff gave a killer session about setting priorities and time management techniques. Photo by Jonny Goldstein.

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MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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JULY 21, 2015

Flickr Photo by Ale Nunez. The article suggests that the skill of self-reflection is the secret sauce for learning how to become an agile learner. How many of us allocate quiet time to reflect every day on what we learned and how we can build on that insight?

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JUNE 10, 2011

Weight = typically, photos receive the highest weight, followed by videos, links, status updates and apps. It was particularly high this week because I’ve been a/b testing different engagement techniques and some of them seem to be working! You need to use the data to reflect and improve what you’re doing!

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Movement is better than sitting.

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JANUARY 26, 2012

Photo by Aussiegal. He talks about the powerful combination of social media and peer learning. His post reflects on his years of “learning in action” on his instructional practice of peer-to-peer, global learning via social web. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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DECEMBER 13, 2005

I'm still pretty fried, but wanted to capture some of my reflections about the GV London Summit experience. I hope that SJ Klein, Angelo, and others who made this happen generate some reflections on what they did and why it worked it so well -- but here's a few techniques that I thought helped make it work well.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Someone said, "Extension work is research based, how do you incorporate this technique?" I told Marnie's story about the Northern CA Homeless Group story and someone pointed out that the homeless photo I used was from Washington, DC. For example, on the Step 2 which was about monitoring blog conversations as market research.

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JULY 31, 2005

I'm still dancing on the edges between action and reflection, but wanted to get down some of my evolving next action steps and questions for reflection. How can I improve my live blogging technique and better integrate with personal networking? I was so overcomed with emotion, that I didn't a get a photo.

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JULY 19, 2006

The photo above was taken at last night's TechSoup Mixed Reality Event. Here's a few reflections from people in the room. And, finally I attended a session with in-world documentary filmmakers who screened some of their works, and discussed filmmaking techniques, another fascinating moderated chat sesson.

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MAY 16, 2008

Photo by Jeff Pulver. One of the best pieces of advice about how to learn good techniques for using social media comes from Chris Brogan. He wrote a post called " A Day Without Twitter " which is an excellent reflective process to figure out what value a tool or technique is doing for you. a day without???

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