Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

My job responsibilities: designing and delivering capacity building programs for artists, arts organizations, and arts educators to gain these new skills. I was lucky enough to have opportunities to co-teach with superb educators where I jokingly say that I acquired my degree in instructional design! In addition, I was lucky enough to be (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I also invite guests to come into my class via Zoom video conference. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

If you weren’t able to attend my conference sessions and are curious about the benefits of using this type of learning, you can watch a recording of a webinar I presented recently on this topic). Luckily for instructional designers, the field seems to be in step with the implementation of branching scenarios in other sorts of media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I keynoted many conferences, including ConnectVA , American Marketing Association Nonprofit Conference , the Institute of Fundraising in London , and others. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, California and at SXSW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. I keynoted at the Grant Manager’s Network Conference and was on a panel with Alex Samuel and Jeremiah Owyang at SXSW. I plan to do that with facilitation techniques for design and innovation labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next? What commitment are we saying to everyone that we will make, should make, or the host should know.

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APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. However, creating a formal learning business within your organization is a whole new ballgame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. Social Instructional Design.

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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. Keynote at the Social Good Brasil Conference. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. PopTech is an.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN’s 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called “ Supercharge Your Technology Training ,” so please take a minute to vote for it. . Here’s the video if you want to see it in action).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” ” So I set up a series of photos depicting different body language and different situations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Training Design. This peer learning exchange has monthly conference calls that balance expert content delivery with peer sharing and making a commitment to put ideas and recommendations into practice over the month. Key influencers take action, including media. Advocates get more attention from policymakers.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. We thought what was revolutionary about the MOOC was the Massiveness and the Openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. We'll have check-in conference calls as well as use the wiki and hashtag to provide just-in-time learning. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. I covered these topics: How CEO’s can lead with social media and online networks.

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MAY 25, 2021

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's what participants said was most useful: "There were so many good things I got from the We Are Media Workshop that it's hard to distill it down to just one magical moment, but I think sitting in the conference room and seeing how many of us were inspired to *listen* to our constituents and connectors was really powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

Learning from Failure: Little Bets: This past year, I gave a keynote for the Social Good Brasil Conference where I met Peter Sims , author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Last week, Gordon used a version of the game at a conference in NYC. One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. Tech in Maine where I did the beta version of the social media strategy game for Pop!Tech Tech Fellows. Reflections coming soon!) His reflections below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, I was honored to deliver the lunch keynote at the 2014 TechNow Conference in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. (My This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Objective. What I have missed?

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JULY 26, 2016

Walking the floor at an ATD conference is a real eye opener as to what the current market possibilities are. That being said, the platforms in which these games are being built are constantly evolving, giving designers better graphical capabilities, smoother operations, and in general more robust offerings. Gamification. Microlearning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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