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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The breakout session “How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery” at the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) originated from an earlier session designed by Andrea Berry, Beth Kanter, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences.

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My NTC Schedule in New Orleans Next Week and My Giant Insect Goal

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least. One of the reflections to come out of this week SXSW Conference was for moderators of panels to use Twitter (or back channel tool) to poll the audience upfront and monitor it real time.

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Another "From Me To We" Panel Tool: Text The Mob

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

m now adding a section suggesting that the moderator first poll his community using some of these tools, and to also monitor the back channel in real time, while not all conferences will embrace a back channel, it???s During the NTC social media ROI Case Study Slam I asked the audience to @kanter me with questions.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This framework works like a charm, whether it is a one-hour webinar or 7 day intensive International training or college graduate course or year long peer learning program. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE !”

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. However, some webinar platforms have a real-time polling feature, the virtual equivalent of asking people to raise their hands if. However, the platform offers some excellent social features.

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Study Provides A Baseline for Nonprofit Use of Social Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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11NTC: Reporters Are People Too

Tech Soup

At the beginning of the session, Matt polled the audience in ways that we were currently monitoring media coverage. The session was an example of the kind of content that I love to see at NTC. , Matt Denner of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement gave a crash course on free ways to monitor media coverage of your nonprofit.

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