As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles. Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. 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? After all, how … [Read more...]
SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session
Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage? 2. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? 3. How can nonprofits learn from … [Read more...]
A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media
Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. Over the years, I've participated in and started many nptech online sandboxes, small online learning cohorts and wiki projects to explore best practices in nonprofit technology hosted on many different platforms and in collaboration with many different organizations. I'm passionate about the power of peer learning communities - and how we can all lift up each … [Read more...]
Reflections from Monterey Community Foundation Workshop
As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I've been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session. The first session, facilitated by colleague Daniel Cohen, focused on creating a communications strategy. The second session, a month later, was focused on … [Read more...]
Reflections from Independent Sector and Blackbaud Conferences
Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshop at the Independent Sector Annual Conference "Forging A Stronger Future Together" in Atlanta. As part of my role as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I had an opportunity to coach Independent Sector on their conference social media integration. Most participants included CEOs of nonprofit institutions and foundations and have been working in the sector for decades. The group also … [Read more...]
