Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

This is a very important concept for instructional design -the way the room is set up effects how people learn. I strongly believe that a workshop, panel, master class, or even a keynote that is interactive is more engaging, people pay attention, they make connections to what they already know and are far more likely to apply it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. Bull’s Eye.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

Finastra’s CSR Director, Jay Mukhey, worked with a few employees to test out mindfulness classes, which help employees get out of their headspace and have a positive mindset during a difficult time. Since the summer, exercise classes during lunch have been held virtually in the comfort of the employees’ homes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Here’s what I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations. Many best wishes for happy, healthy, and abundant 2014 for you.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

We were able to design virtual workshops in a matter of weeks, whereas under normal circumstances, it may have taken us months. But after many sessions, I realize that using chat, virtual polls, and virtual breakout rooms can be just as engaging and involving as an in-person class. Krista Berry Ortega Programs Manager, West. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 7, 2011

Just wanted to let you know that I'll be teaching my Blogging for Writers workshop May 15th from 10 AM-4 PM in the cozy Writing Salon classroom at the Strawberry Creek Design Center in Berkeley. The workshop is great for newbies, and for folks who want to breathe new life into an old blog. You can register on the Writing Salon website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

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. John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

His technique is similar to what I’ve being doing for years, but I haven’t used real-time learning analytics : Before he class, he assigns a pre-reading from the textbook. Mazur uses technology,a web-based monitoring system where students submit answers to questions about the reading prior to coming to class.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2016

The shelter provides basic daily care, exercise for dogs and cats, and special accommodations for birds, fish and other family pets. We have a new certificate program in social impact measurement, with the next class starting in April. Learn more about our Social Impact Measurement Certificate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2016

The shelter provides basic daily care, exercise for dogs and cats, and special accommodations for birds, fish and other family pets. We have a new certificate program in social impact measurement, with the next class starting in April. Learn more about our Social Impact Measurement Certificate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I loved hearing Isadora Faber, a pre-teen girl who lives in Florianópolis and creator of page Daily Class on Facebook. These philanthroteens lead workshops on advocacy, communications and learned about their peers in developing countries. Teens As Free Agents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Someday, maybe I'll have time to think about this more and develop a workshop. My best one is running 5 miles or doing a spin class. For some reason, vigorous cardio exercise helps clear out the information anxiety Maybe it is the just the stepping away from the reflected light dancing across my eyes coming from the monitor.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising. DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill. Here are ideas 64 through 75—no kids allowed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

3) Cooking classes. Cooking classes have a broad appeal because they attract not just gourmet food, but also individuals who want to learn new skills. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. 6) Craft nights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I wasn't sure whether I was feeling awful from being dehydrated or from the experience of something not translating well, but this young woman approached me afterwards and asked if she could keep the cards and to use in her class. workshop, I spoke about tagging. The afternoon also included a small group role play exercise.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Here are some of the comments on the "why" behind their involvement: [Khan Academy has] a hugely generous vision and commitment to rethinking education—our mission is “a world-class education, for anyone, anywhere”—not to mention brilliant programmers and staff.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. I am now significantly more likely to take another class than I was before.” Are you allowing your teams to create "pilots" prior to scrutinizing them through traditional ROI exercises? Conclusion.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For those who have an exercise bike at home, you can also encourage them to, set up their laptop or mobile camera and cycle together. This could be a day-long series of talks and workshops all hosted online where people can dial into the different events. Virtual Cooking Class.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 26, 2018

A stretching exercise you can do sitting in your desk chair: Lance Breger is a an 18-year veteran of the health and wellness industry, Lance has led online/on-site training programs for thousands of professionals based on his four pillars of wellness: fitness, nutrition, mind/body and ergonomics. Lance : Here is one.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Encourage your users to create their own obstacle course using household items, like toilet paper, or by doing a series of exercises like crawling and pull ups. Class Fundraising Events. Recruit staff members or volunteers with special skills to lead a workshop and teach other supporters a fun skill! Let’s get started!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 31, 2017

A stretching exercise you can do sitting in your desk chair: Lance Breger is an Executive Wellness Coach and the Founder of InfinityWellness Partners , a comprehensive corporate wellness company that prepares executives and organizations for the most productive and healthy work-life. Lance : Here is one.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A stretching exercise you can do sitting in your desk chair: Lance Breger is an Executive Wellness Coach and the Founder of InfinityWellness Partners , a comprehensive corporate wellness company that prepares executives and organizations for the most productive and healthy work-life. Lance : Here is one.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2019

You lose touch, you move on, you change, and having sat next to them in Mr. Ross’ class isn’t enough to keep them relevant. I’m talking about someone who exercises with you twice a week for months or years in a row, or who always picks up when you call. In the same way, these people can move out of your life and lose relevance.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs. ” Yes. Is it measurable?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . So what we’re seeing is a shrinking of the middle class that historically provided the base, the backbone of most donor programs. . That was a good omen for things.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2005

He writes on his Web site , "In the last election, many Americans stood for hours and hours just to exercise their Constitutional right to vote.We Obama points out that many poor and elderly people don't have the money, transportation or proper documentation (i.e. birth certificate) to get a photo ID.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes. We've seen that happen with The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop. But testing out different forms is useful as an early design exercise even if the products never make it to primetime. Can I express this concept in verse?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

It might be worth going through an exercise where your team says, "Making a PBS half hour program would cost X. For the same reason we do so with individual classes or constituency groups in the real museum. How much is an educational workshop worth? We are willing to spend Y to reach 1,000 people. How much is a lecture worth?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public. I decided that, "Hey. You know what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

She’s giving workshops. In your life you say, “I want to exercise.” But your behavior, if you don’t like exercise or if you don’t like the type of exercise you’re doing, if your perception doesn’t shift, then that behavior is not going to stick. It’s all this good stuff.

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