Pete Rafle

Seen this morning in #DC.

29.01.2025 14:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What’s really happening when working together face-to-face means screen-to-screen? Over 4,400 people at nonprofits and foundations, colleges and universities, and government agencies answered, and now you can read exactly what they said in our new report.

This isn't my idea -- I got it from the amazing book "Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes" published by the Goodman Center. So many great, proven, pro-level presentation skillz in this free book! 🧵3/3 www.thegoodmancenter.com/resources/#r...

23.01.2025 13:56 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The "final thought" avoids the Q&A traps of a) no questions/crickets and b) the crackpot who gets up and makes a speech or challenges your basic points. This way, *you* decide how people feel about the talk. It also tells people you put thought into every aspect of your presentation. 🧵2/3

23.01.2025 13:56 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Here's what we taught at Spitfire Strategies: go to Q&A, but say "I have time for a couple of questions, and then I have one final thought for you." Save one slide (a summary, a new idea, synthesis, words of wisdom, etc) to tie it up with a bow. This lets you control what people remember. 🧵1/3

23.01.2025 13:56 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This song has been on repeat in my head this week. “Wearing badges is not enough, in days like these.” Who will be the American Billy Bragg for these dark days? youtu.be/mAjFO61ndLc?...

23.01.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Singing While the World Burns Down I wrote this in 2018 in the middle of the hearings for a certain Supreme Court nominee. I kinda hoped I wouldn't still be singing it 7 years later, but sadly, it has only become more relevant. Today i

I wrote this in 2018 during the hearings for a certain SCOTUS nominee. Today is Inauguration Day, and I decided it was time to record it and put it out in the world. You can find me on Instagram, YouTube etc. at @prsongsmith. #indiemusic #independent #politicalsongs

20.01.2025 21:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

D’oh! I didn’t realize that was you, Kendra! 🤣

20.01.2025 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We actually performed this at my #UnitarianUniversalist church yesterday.

20.01.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Check out this insightful take from my @georgetownclimate.bsky.social colleague Joshua Saks on the climate adaptation impact of the new #WRDA bill!

20.12.2024 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@lfcr.bsky.social Go Reds!! #ynwa

01.12.2024 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A timely video about Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome that applies to our civilization today.

25.11.2024 20:32 — 👍 50    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 6