Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This was the first 90 minutes of the workshop, and while content and interaction kept in active learning mode — the next step was a synthesis. This section was followed by taking people through a worksheet that breaks down the step by step of thinking through a campaign – both examples and small group or individual exercises.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Lectures and class discussions are effective training tools. These employees are “show-me” learners, who need a hands-on experience. Touching and doing an activity is important. These employees are “tell-me” learners, who thrive in classroom settings. Tactile learners learn by doing. On-the-job training works best for them.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Educational nonprofits can also work with teachers to host in-person activities , such as a graffiti wall where students can write down their dreams and aspirations. Teachers can work with students on a particular subject and have live video lectures bookend the units.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 3, 2023

They likely started as members and were effectively stewarded to becoming donors through enriching and engaging experiences. Then, steward the member the way you would a donor and cultivate the member experience so that the difference between “member” and “visitor” is clear. Member-Donors are the goal. They’re now part of a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. Each week is packed with content and activities as well as video modules exploring that theme. Giving 2.0: It offers one module per week with a theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction. The flexible classroom is a large open space.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Perhaps not literally the obstacles faced by your constituents, but in personal terms, it is likely you have faced the very human experience of facing problems you feel are beyond your ability to solve without help (We all have.). Consider lived experience and amplify community voice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 23, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. These senior executives are actively, visibly, and regularly engaged in promoting cross-cultural understanding.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2019

Faculty engage her both inside and outside the classroom by providing feedback on assignments, encouraging her to step outside her comfort zone to acquire new skills, recommending extracurricular activities , and checking in on the progress she’s making towards her goals. Current alumni have been key to keeping her engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. This is one of my favorite books about instructional design, especially if you are designing professional development activities for nonprofit staff or other trainers. Interactive Lectures by Sivasailam Thiagarajan. By Vicki Halsey.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Webinar and Zoom fatigue is very real and so you need to create an experience that is going to go above and beyond a simple virtual meeting. Adding competition, fun, and camaraderie to your virtual event will break up the steady flow of information, prevent people from becoming bored, and improve the overall event experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

One of my favorite activities is to do a networking walk on The Dish trail, a five mile somewhat challenging hike adjacent to the Stanford University campus, a location where Silicon Valley start up entrepreneurs have famously walked and made deals or come up with great ideas. How do you measure that impact?

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2022

Like the destress challenge, this next fundraising idea for mental health nonprofits is all about lowering stress through calming activity. Your mental health nonprofit likely knows that physical activity does a world of good when it comes to mental health too. Host a yoga or meditation fundraiser. What is an a-thon event?

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The theme was chosen in “recognition of women, past and present, who have been active in all forms of media and storytelling including print, radio, TV, stage, screen, blogs, podcasts, and more. Every year, the National Women’s History Alliance selects a yearly theme to focus on for the month. million workers and generating $1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Photo by Aussiegal. This should be a fascinating learning journey.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

The report suggests that "besides education and experience, the ability of nonprofit managers to make accurate financial and economic decisions depends on the information and tools that nonprofit organizations can access." Of interest is the question, "What are important macroeconomic finance indicators for nonprofits?"

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Your loyalty program (aka “donor communications” or “donor relations” or “donor stewardship” program) is just one of many touchpoints that must be considered within the entirety of the consumer’s brand experience. Weave in well-planned and well-executed “customer experiences” that keep you in active relationships with your donors.

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. Jenna Jones, CVA has over 15 years of volunteer management experience.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Rather, master classes are meant to be a flipped classroom experience. Instead of a lecture-filled one-day workshop, we instead challenge you to do your homework and readings before the class. This is not one of those workshops where you listen to the teacher and feel your eyes glazing over by the end of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

In the second article, I explored the importance of building a donor experience that resonates with today’s constituents. . Donor experience. Before embarking on any donor-facing strategy, ask yourself: How will this align with current donor values to create a better supporter experience? Actively Imagine New Possibilities.

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Forj

MARCH 7, 2018

They are typically self-directed bringing their experiences to play when ready to learn or as they just need information. Microlearning deals with relatively small learning units and short-term learning activities. The quality of a microlearning activity is in the eye of the beholder. Wikipedia ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. The hope is that these various experiences will lead to inspiration, encouragement, new explorations. The format, the physical space, and network weaving activities were extraordinary. The description: The !deation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I don’t often encounter people from nonprofits in this stage because they won’t attend a workshop or a peer learning activity. If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology. The key is to not feel frustrated, and pick it up again. She was brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. Writing and Blogging: I’ve kept an active publishing schedule for Beth’s Blog, something that I’ve done since 2003!

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. After all, even if they no longer volunteer with your organization, there was a time when they were actively engaging with your work. Optimize your current volunteers’ experience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Anne Kotleba Lecturer/ Program Coordinator, Nonprofit Leadership Alliance Anne Kotleba is our newest staff member, joining us as a lecturer in the School of Community Resources & Development and coordinator of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and the Certified Nonprofit Professional Credential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

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? Body Breaks: The book suggests incorporating some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes. Source: Zazzle. How do you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

It was a survey lecture, beginning with her work in the sixities and first-hand accounts of the civil rights movement in her " American People Series " right up to her current work. As she took us through a timeline of her work, she pointed out how she experimented with different mediums and genres and even invented a few.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter? Forms can be used to survey volunteers and program participants about their experiences with your organization, gather opinions from donors about an upcoming strategic plan, and about 100 other things. In my experience, emails are rarely urgent. The Neverending To-Do List.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 27, 2014

Here are just a few activities that could earn members points: Buying a membership. Volunteering. Attending a lecture or event. Renewing a membership early. Completing a visitor survey and offer feedback. Making a purchase in the gift shop. Think about it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s more about giving participants a jump on applying it and guiding them so they can put it into practice as quickly as possible after the workshop. If you are designing and delivering training on any topic, here’s some things to think about to ensure that your participants have a transformative learning experience.

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