Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The photo was my classroom. One of the first exercises I do in the workshop is have participants take the “ Nonprofit Passion Fatigue Burnout Assessment.” This beautiful retreat center is located in the Santa Cruz Mountains and offers professional development on a wide range of leadership, wellness, and other topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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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. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. The benefit of starting from a long time instruction-led situation is that these same instructors know your target demographic, what works for them, and what seems to get swept under the rug. Learning Styles. Interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Reframe the Problem Example: If you were asked to design a new version of a name tag (like the ones you wear at conferences) you'd probably get versions that were different, but ultimately similar. Keep what works. Seelig is working on a book around these 9 ideas and asked us to tell her which ones resonated with us the most. #6

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. Outside of E-Learnings as a newer platform to maximize user buy-in, a variety of efforts are starting to be included into a well-blended mix, such as Social Learning, Gamification, and Micro Learning exercise. Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that’s an invention. If you have something that everyone is doing but it isn’t really working, that isn’t great either.

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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. Explain how their fundraising efforts will have an impact on the work your organization does. Reading boasts a wide range of benefits for both children and adults alike.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But I think the big difference in sports is that people know what to look for. I don’t enjoy swimming in pools or anything that seems like exercise; I have definitely never done a flip off the high dive. Fostering these engagements with ideas and collections is key to our work. Very few Americans don’t know what a home run is.

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JULY 8, 2021

Either way, we’d guess it looked quite different from the eLearning assessment types we’re going to discuss today. Through that work, we’ve seen firsthand the various types of assessments that can be included in an eLearning course. What are the different types of online assessment? Gamification.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2016

Have they possibly lost their energy to create change and make a difference? Tip: Try this mingle exercise with your board — or simply go around the table and ask people to share their stories. Connect Them to Your Real Work. Get their hands dirty with real work. Have your board members lost their enthusiasm and zip?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. What's different about your life, your work? We took 30 minutes for the exercise. Here's what we did: We reconnected about a year-long (already-established) goal to improve our work experience individually and collectively. What does the world look like in that future?

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

I think about innovation and the work about innovation in education in two ways: first, if you have something that is significantly better than the status quo and you are doing it with a few kids, that's an invention. If you have something that everyone is doing but it isn't really working, that isn't great either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The games let us think about the process of education of being a citizen in the world in a different way. Epistemic framework let us think about the world in a different way and think about education and think about preparing people for the type of activicism. If it doesn't work, revise it. available for pre-order.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. FoodWhat reminds me that it takes real work to unlock that meaning and invite teenagers to step into their own power. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. Hanging out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Are the results different?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. We have been working together for over 20 years, and love traveling across the country.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. Julie: Great. Steven: Julie, you’re awesome.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

It appears that the work of a learning professional is never done. Outside of E-Learnings as a newer platform to maximize user buy-in, a variety of efforts are starting to be included in a well-blended mix, such as Social Learning, Gamification, and Micro Learning exercise. Aligning Learning Needs with Business Process.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. It might be worth going through an exercise where your team says, "Making a PBS half hour program would cost X. Let's look at these one by one. So what's it worth?

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. Today, computer science-types who are solely interested in bettering humanity are certainly around and working hard on a range of initiatives.

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