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How I learned to stop yawning and love the Zoom Room

Candid

To subvert the issue of a faceless sea, our Network Engagement team follows several practices to make it ( and all our trainings ) as engaging as virtually possible. . If you are lecturing, showing slides, otherwise not engaging the audience for more than 10 minutes, something needs to change. Welcome everyone. Break it up—or don’t!

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Guest Post: Maintaining a connection with pandemic-inactive volunteers

Twenty Hats

I make a point of varying the format , sometimes using polls or breakout rooms for smaller group discussion and brainstorming. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks. Interestingly, a follow up poll gave the event relatively low marks. Jenna is re-thinking the practice for next year.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content.

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Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

Set your own benchmarks: Guidelines, benchmark reports, and best practices are helpful to know, but ultimately its important to know your audience. To learn more about how you can use email marketing to support year-round online fundraising, Ive uploaded my slides to Slideshare. Here''s what they said.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences. The session slide deck is also available on Slideshare.net. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Learning Styles.