Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called "Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers." The idea was to get folks who do social media for nonprofits sharing best practices about social media adoption and culture change by balancing brief content delivery with lots of interaction. This was a face-to-face session, but the learning was extended online afterwards, albeit briefly, in an organic way on twitter using a … [Read more...]
Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?
How do you learn? When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? Do you concentrate better when you move around versus sitting for too long? I know for … [Read more...]
Trainer's Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings
I've just returned from an amazing trip of facilitating workshops, discussions and master classes as well as a keynoting a conference on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" in Australia and New Zealand. It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I'm always learning as I help others learn. Here's a couple of reflections from my "trainer's notebook." I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called "The Networked NGO in New Zealand," this workshop … [Read more...]
The Networked NGO in Australia and New Zealand: Te Ao Maori
I'm headed to New Zealand and Australia to facilitate workshops in both countries and to keynote the ConnectingUp Conference (Australia's version of the Nonprofit Technology Conference). I am excited for a return visit to Australia. I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, "Take Me To The Social Web." One of the workshop participants was Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge - a long time nonprofit capacity builder and trainer - who invited me to come over to New Zealand … [Read more...]
Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp
I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand. The camp was organized by Thai … [Read more...]
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