Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Write that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 It’s not a luxury.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

But what if you’re the ONLY person on the team and there’s really no one else to help? We’re trying to right a wrong or educate people about an injustice. We’re trying to help those who cannot help themselves, or who the system forgot. Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Used as a facilitation technique in training can also help people generate ideas on how to apply the skills or concepts being taught. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. Overall, the process takes less than hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. ” This helped shift the energy and energize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. Present a concept for 15 minutes, break people into small groups with a particular exercise to apply the material, and then come back as a full group for a report out. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. You can ask people to share it anonymously.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Historically, they’ve run a fundraiser that earned around $5000 each year through a race that people would run on their own. She says they were concerned that people were exhausted, unable to give, or just hunkering down to wait out the pandemic. The name comes from the “dura” matter in the brain, which is where spinal leaks happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If you are trying to incorporate more exercise into your day, walking and moving is a very productive form of procrastination because it helps your brain concentrate (and you burn calories not to mention it being more healthy than sitting for 8 hours). Still, you have to get stuff done. Bullet Journal is done by hand.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Last year I spoke at more than 75 events and I can always guarantee at least one of the questions will be: “Please tell me what issues the 80 million people in the United States who represent some of the largest and most diverse opinions and demographics want to spend their time, activism, and dollars with.”. Social issue interests change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value. 3. This mixture was embedded in every aspect from the instructional design – from icebreakers to reflection exercises to presentation content, examples, and frameworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Sometimes I time box those tasks to help me focus. I also time box tasks that are open-ended, like answering email or participating on social media sites and do these in short 15-30 minute bursts in between the three big tasks on the index card.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Not only does reading exercise the brain and improve concentration, but it also helps children develop more advanced language skills and engage their imagination. A fundraising thermometer can help your fundraisers visualize how well the read-a-thon is going and how much they’ve raised. Spread the word.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever. In addition, the creators of collaboration apps and services are tweaking their offerings to enable people to do more work within their suite of products, so there’s less of a need to jump around. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Instead, people need to become ''resilient'' to stress, learning how to quickly recover from it," explains Evans. Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) This style of exercise is also great from a time and resources perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. Soren asked a terrific question about how technology and being connected helps or gets in the way of giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ). The topics covered included: ???

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. People who wear them improperly are called ‘glassholes’ and apparently have been attacked in bars here in San Francisco. that sends exercise and sleep info the cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Small group or partnering learning activity: Reflection on reading materials, debriefing on exercises or practice activities, identifying issues and concerns, brainstorming ideas and solutions to bring to the whole group, action research. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Is our brain changing as a result? you mention that in today's information technology overload, many people are experiencing ADD symptoms even though we don't necessarily have the disorder. By training the brain to shift activities rapidly for multitasking, we may be decreasing the brain’s ability to focus.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. I am only friends with people I know and a few work colleagues who have been filed under a list called “Work&# friends. People watch. Get away from your computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

As Nilofer Merchant points out in this TED talk , people are sitting 9.3 I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. Over the past few years, people often say to me, “I don’t know how you get it all done.” It helps preserve energy and focus.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This concept is explained in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , the popular book by Stephen R. Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. Will we need to upgrade our system in anyway?

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