Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise … [Read more...]
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Creating A Global Network of Capacity Builders for Social Change
I've always benefited from learning from colleagues who do nonprofit technology training and capacity but often we come from the same perspective. I've always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as "learning from adjacent practices." This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory, … [Read more...]
5 Ways Nonprofit Facebook Messenger Bots Can Deliver Impact
In my last post about nonprofit bots, I discussed the big picture of automation in the nonprofit space and what I learned from the "The Beth Bot" experiment. For this post, I did a landscape scan to identify some of the best examples of nonprofit bots. (These examples use Facebook Messenger, but bots be deployed other platforms or apps.) What is a Chat Bot? Why Use One? More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger, to contact nonprofits with … [Read more...]
Why Can't the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons
What Happened on Give Local America Day? For the past few years, I've been facilitating a peer learning group with a small cohort of grantees, all community foundations, hosting Giving Days in their communities using the Giving Day Playbook. The activities for this community of practice included regular conference calls primarily for the cohort, webinars for a broader audience of community foundations, and an online safe space open to any community foundation hosting a giving day to share … [Read more...]
How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training: NTC 2016 Session
In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I'm facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called "How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training." As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. My colleague Cindy Leonard has used her photoshop magic to help each of the speakers transform into a character. Here's the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! Our session will change the way you design and … [Read more...]
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