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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth Kanter

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog. What about you?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth Kanter

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Big Data: Big Headache or Big Opportunity for Associations?

Association Adviser

Those in the association world are a little less blunt about the information gathering process. If you’re taking shortcuts due to staffing, technology or financial resources, then don’t pretend what you’re doing is scientific. As ASAE’s Greg Melia told Association Adviser TV recently: “Data, data, data is a clarion call.

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