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Learning Retention Rates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning Retention Rates Originally uploaded by Eric Rice. On pages 20-22 of the mega huge powerpoint bullet points [link] Was Gagne's Nine Events and how games embody them. Reminds of something I read today about learning design and games.

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

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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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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8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Training and education are essential drivers and serve an important function for improving employee performance, satisfaction and yes, even increasing staff retention. Death by PowerPoint: C’mon you know the look: Save your monologues for the stage. So why aren’t nonprofits focused more on developing quality training programs?

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How to Define, Measure and Communicate Your Impact

NonProfit Hub

If you’re showing your potential donors a PowerPoint, for example, play a meaningful video on one slide and follow it up with statistics on the next. On the other hand, even if a story is incredibly touching, people will be unlikely to pull out their wallets unless there are stats to back it all up.

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2015's Top 10 Products at TechSoup

Tech Soup

Enterprise CALs add functionality that's not accessible with the Standard CAL only, including unified messaging, custom retention policies, and more. The Enterprise CAL for Exchange works in conjunction with a Standard CAL. Intuit QuickBooks. What does managing your nonprofit's accounting have in common with "The Wire"?

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Presentation Zen Blog: A Resource Review

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

All the technique, training, and "PowerPoint" tricks are useless if the talk doesn't come from your gut, from your heart and soul. Then, I start to develop it in Powerpoint and I don't touch the templates at all. Studies show that color usuage can increase interest and improve learning comprehension and retention."