Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Use Learning Theory. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Obtaining a sense of skill level prior to training helps the trainer make spontaneous decisions about content modification to suit the audience. In the first portion of the training, Jeanne and Cindy modeled four great practices for designing training content, including: Spend a little time researching adult learning theory, or.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. This book is filled with great tips on designing engaging learning experiences that help your participants connect, inspire, and engage. Photo By h.koppdelaney.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

My colleague Loretta Donovan pinged me to let me know of her newest blog and her take on the topic of " Capturing Collaborative Knowledge from Nonprofit Events." " I love seeing this through Loretta's lens of learning. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into?

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