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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Your design is not just about content.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Breakout Rooms are a feature on Zoom meetings (it has to be turned on in your zoom profile/account ) that allows the meeting host to put people into small groups for more intimate discussions or activities. . See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). You can customize how many participants per room.

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Good CEO, Bad Call—How to Recover

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Documenting the steps that you will take in a leadership challenge is a good way to begin training yourself to act with intention in a situation filled with extreme emotional distractions. Review the instructions you wrote to yourself. Be prepared to discuss the steps involved in problem-solving. First and foremost, don’t panic.

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4 Easy Ways to Acquire New Donors for Your Nonprofit with Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Put together documents that discuss your organization’s purpose, goals, and history. In addition to traditional questions and answers, they embedded instructional videos and provided a participant resource library. That’s why it’s important to develop tools that will assist those who are willing to fundraise on your behalf.

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3 Strategies for Effective Nonprofit E-Learning

The Nerdy NonProfit

Otherwise, it’s just using up some of her time—which, we’ve already discussed, she doesn’t have a lot of. If we gave you a list of instructions with the following information—and only the following information—what would you do? Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. It’s a balancing act!

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

In summary, the arts play a well-documented role in shaping resilient and well-rounded individuals during their formative years. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? But now we’re missing an “as” before “supported by research” in the first sentence.

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Icebreakers for Online Meetings That Introverts Will Love

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. One design important instructional principle for trainings and meetings, whether online or face-to-face, is to start off with a fun way to ease into the work.

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