Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible.

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MAY 16, 2022

Train like a champion, diet, exercise, or take performance-enhancing supplements? As AI writing tools get better, they will become increasingly essential for anyone who wants to create online content and communications. Collaboration: AI software can help you collaborate with others on projects, making writing a team effort.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Over the last few of years I've had a the opportunity to work with a team of intelligent and thoughtful colleagues, speak at conferences, and collaborate with other facilitators and community builders. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

One of the fun exercises I facilitated is a “Fishbowl” where a small group of participants go through the process of generating ideas for an editorial calendar based on their key goals and audience definition. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

That’s when you can add a brief stretch break, energizer , or incorporate an exercise that requires getting up and moving around. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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MARCH 11, 2021

Was the content dull and irrelevant? They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships.

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JULY 10, 2023

Instead editing is, or should be, a collaboration — where multiple perspectives combine to shape content so that it can better connect with audiences. It’s where you set the emotional tone, establish the context of time and place, and let the audience know that this content is for them. That’s not how we should approach editing.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Virtual summits can be useful for building brand awareness, lead retrieval, and for generating content with a long shelf-life. This virtual summit created a digital experience that enabled attendees to connect with others, collaborate, cultivate success, and inspire others long after the summit ended. Virtual Trade Shows or Expos.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Virtual summits can be useful for building brand awareness, lead retrieval, and for generating content with a long shelf-life. This virtual summit created a digital experience that enabled attendees to connect with others, collaborate, cultivate success, and inspire others long after the summit ended. Virtual Trade Shows or Expos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Each week is packed with content and activities as well as video modules exploring that theme. Students will consider and vote on eligible nonprofits and collaboratively determine which ones receive Learning By Giving Foundation grants. The online course is six-weeks. It offers one module per week with a theme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Workshop content has to be practical about the amount of investment required to implement ideas – and always include some “low hanging fruit” or actionable steps that don’t require a huge amount of organizational change or monetary investment. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it. First, WIPO, with a mandate from its member nations, is working to address the need to change national laws and get more accessible books flowing—a process that will take a long time.

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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. Your design is not just about content. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Through intentional collaboration with key stakeholders, she saw an opportunity for wholesale changes not only to be more effective but also to be, “more fun and more powerful.”. As Katelyn put it: “don’t do this alone.” Digital transformations begin with identifying your partners, advocates, and champions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Peer Self-Assessment and Peer Coaching Exercises. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Whether it be addressing the blended learning mix we provide, the content we promote directly, or the style in which our learners process information; there are countless decisions that we can make, and the answer that we provide today, may not be what is most effective weeks from now. Effectiveness of Content. Conclusion.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Event planners took this fact to heart in building a conference agenda that was a nice combination of roadmap previewing and a range of how-to, hands-on, and both technical and non-technical content. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

Working virtually for our team meant we worked collaboratively in a way that wasn’t possible prepandemic. I was able to learn Candid content and get to know my awesome fellow trainers.” In this article from our 2020 annual report , Candid employees share how these changes affected them and the stakeholders they serve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2017

Effective delivery for professional development needs to be integrated into the actual work day and that with limited professional development budgets and fast paced workloads, micro-content and micro-exercises as well as mini-sessions are most useful. And, get direct access to practical tools that you can use within your organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor. Internationally, Bookshare is operating in twenty-eight countries that span the globe and offering content in Hindi and Tamil, Spanish, French and German.

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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. The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Well, it is simply an exercise to bring users back to the site and increase activity by complaining about it. Old comment sections on previous learning exercises are perfect fodder to experiment with social learning. Assign work that can only be achieved in a collaborative setting. Assign Group Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

Collaboration is hard and even harder when you don't write, think, or have the same tone. It may be easier to write a book alone , but a collaborative effort can produce something rich. We started with a little skit, loosely based on the PC/MAC commercials about how our styles are so different.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Celebrated every October, NCSAM is a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure all Americans have the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. We've got lots of content and events planned for October. Subscribe to our By the Cup newsletter to get the latest NCSAM content right in your inbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. The notes are captured here. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

To do so, they need to be skilled collaborators, adept at bringing diverse perspectives together, and confident in their abilities to collaboratively steward supporters at every touchpoint along the ladder of engagement with other teams, departments, and senior leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Some of these activities included virtua l Wine and Art Nights with art professors, yoga sessions with exercise science professors, and music nights or lessons with music professors. . Blackbaud Higher Education content hub. . I nstitutions got creative sources of higher ed talent to boost alumni engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Over the years, I used this exercise for different audiences, from filmmakers to university professionals. This exercise is most appropriate for people who want to know the what/why versus the best practices of how to do it. I'd aggregate the responses to create a shared mental map.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

BJ: Most games I have designed through museums have been in partnership - with professional game designers, with high school students, with scientists (and other content experts), and with digital developers (that AR component of the pterosaurs card game was amazing). That, and not knowing what the game will be like until it’s published.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

This may be you, or a bit of you; I'm often collaborating with folks, including other staff here at Database Designs, who slice up the tool pie differently. Collaborative Files I couldn't get through my day without Dropbox , which I have blogged about before. Dropbox also has essential team collaboration built in. Powerpoint?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When you exercise IMC and have a consistent image across all platforms, people begin to recognize your identity and associate it with the specific good that you do. Formulate different ways to deliver your message and create a content calendar for the duration of this campaign. Avoid Duplicate Messages.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. But there are other content models we can explore. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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