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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

No one wants to listen to a stoic facilitator pontificate behind a lectern reading lame PowerPoint slides. They don’t follow a script. They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships. They’re enthusiastic, inspirational, and an exceptional communicator.

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Nonprofit Presenters: What are your best tips for preparing presentations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In his workshops, he offers the following formula for a storytelling based on Hollywood script writing: Introduce the central character. Tags: powerpoint. I learned this from Andy Goodman -- I've taken his workshops and read his books. Andy is a master at storytelling. How have you resolved those issues?

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Webinar Presentation Tips for Nonprofits and Other Folks

Have Fun - Do Good

Write the script, then create the PowerPoint. Check out Seth Godin's post Really Bad Powerpoint , Guy Kawasaki's the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint , and Presentation Zen's What is good PowerPoint Design? They aren't that different than best practices for face-to-face presenting. I hope you'll share your tips too.

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Open Source Thinking: A Remix Wikitation of Marnie Webb's Ten Ways To Use Web2.0 Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can export jpegs to flickr and create set , you can upload a powerpoint into slideshare or create a wikispace for the presentation or wikitation. I generally like to have visuals, a place for my script, and links. I've been fooling around with alternative ways for share presentations over the web. I like having a leave behind.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are my powerpoint slides from the Screencasting Session at NTC. minute videos, map out the screencast before you actually film it, create a storyboard, write a script, use music. If you didn't write down the wiki, it's here and if you didn't get a hard copy of the Idealware article, it's here. no more than 3.5

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). NTEN blog reviews the Google Presentation tool and is sticking with powerpoint.

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