Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

How do we complete work, training, and more on one strained WiFi connection? Evolutions in Content. The mass migration to working from home, new terms like “social distancing” and “N95/KN95 masks,” and Zoom-based schooling are all buzzwords. Use new technology to work from home. Fundraise with empathy during a crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., Then it was time for a simple exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Apparently you can’t make crappy content go viral. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. The common tip? Craft good headlines.

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Forj

AUGUST 1, 2017

That’s because engagement isn’t all that interesting to me from a theoretical perspective: if learners are paying attention and enjoy what they’re doing, they’re more likely to remember the content. 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

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Social media content mirrors other channels. Training Design. We created a deck of cards with mini-case studies showing examples of how these state advocates had strategically incorporate social media into their social media plan. Solicit and share stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. This conference was designed as an interactive, networking event.

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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. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. With icebreakers, for example, you can use counting off or alphabetical order. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are working very closely with Dr. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance. organizational change, and technology.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

With the only resolution to this issue being to schedule yearly training meetings/events, or requiring intensive eLearnings where the floating personnel is not only taken away from their work, but they are often participating with varied levels of attention and an abundance of distractions. Evolution of the Content.

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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. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I was humbled to join the illustrious list of faculty members who have talents and wisdom in content areas that I only dance around of the edges of. Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. Adapting the Game from A Communications Lens to A Program Lens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. However, it is harder to make pivots when you have a team that has not worked together before. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions?

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

For example, it’s easy to imagine new guidance around pandemic procedures on the horizon. Ongoing professional development is a large non-dues revenue-generating activity for your association, and if you’re working with a sub-par LMS you could be watching that revenue drop month after month. Accessible Content Delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Program Design. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated. He described two types of online behaviors – content creators and curators. ” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. An example would be getting your high-fidelity medical simulator to talk to your LMS and LRS. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Understanding the E-Learning Content Development Process . Your e-learning content development partner reviews the training content you already have and works to understand your goals for the course. . Your SMEs will work closely with your e-learning content development partner. Project start-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

But, just because your current in-person training efforts are technically working, that doesn’t mean that they’re the best solution for your overall organization, staff members, and volunteers alike. With visuals of the form and walk-through examples, we were able to put the content into context and make the information easier to process.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

As a Master Trainer and Adjunct Professor, I’m primarily known for my work in networks and nonprofit, but I’ve always approached it with a leadership lens. This year’s work will build on this past year. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design.

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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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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

We also need to understand the output from our automated work to determine its accuracy. Collaboration is the ability to work effectively and respectfully with others. We are increasingly seeing cross-disciplinary work teams. Our design choices reflect our values. What is proper etiquette on twitter?

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

We also need to understand the output from our automated work to determine its accuracy. Collaboration is the ability to work effectively and respectfully with others. We are increasingly seeing cross-disciplinary work teams. Our design choices reflect our values. What is proper etiquette on twitter?

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