Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

. – Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links.

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Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. Provide clear instructions. Offer to assist in any documentation or administrative tasks related to the planned giving process. Donors report that they like that the most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” Speaking of documentation, that’s where digital tools can come in handy – for example your mobile phone camera. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you? My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. I find inspiration from reading about new techniques, observing them in action by masters, writing about it, trying it, and reflecting on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions. My Three Themes: .

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MAY 27, 2022

But for organizations already doing more with less, documenting those results often takes time they don’t have. These repetitive tasks can be even more prevalent in nonprofit organizations, where updating donor profiles, entering gifts, or documenting grant applications are everyday occurrences. The average U.S.

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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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Reflective Practice. In some facilitation methods, the participants do the documentation – for example the World Cafe where participants take notes of the conversation or Open Space Technology where knowledge capture is done by participants throughout. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks to express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have debate get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. Or discuss and document on the sticky notes as you go.

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JUNE 28, 2016

This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. If John in Marketing learns best via Instructor-Lead training, and Suzy in Document Control works best in an impersonal self-instructed pathway. It is best to accommodate their needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. I will be exploring and writing about assessment, curriculum development, facilitation, evaluation, and documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

In a google document , some how they put the word out and 66 people signed up to blog and tweet about the birthday wish propelling its success! I'll also share some insights about instruction. For now, enjoy Amy Sample Ward's reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! But it is late, and time for bed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them.

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An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. Because these questions are so quick to answer, it doesn’t lead to a large disruption in instruction when they’re included within modules. Let’s dive in. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

View more documents from E-Mediat. It is great to see the results of a lot of hard work by everyone involved and looking forward to 2012 which will be an intensive year of designing, delivering, and reflecting on capacity building in networked approaches and social media skills outside of the US.

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AUGUST 15, 2013

But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing. Sometimes we even put voices and faces to names (er, Twitter handles), whether through a phone call about the group’s evolution or an in-person meetup at the NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. " What has been going on here is experimentation to understand the possibilities and potential of virtual worlds as an educational , instructional , therapeutic , marketing , and/or collaboration medium. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Last week, I took along my N95 and used as a documentation tool - and a way to bring others from outside the class into the discussion. Burning Questions Playing the Social Media Game Reflection at the End. " What are some ways that you have incorporated the use of social media into your face-to-face instruction?

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Your actions should reflect your nonprofit’s brand. We recommend reflecting on your brand both internally and externally, surveying all of the above stakeholders against the following questions: How is your organization currently perceived? It’s reflected in your visuals, your messaging, and your interactions with the public alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well. Here’s the video if you want to see it in action). You have people pair up and go out for a walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the instruction was done as a full group, we also wanted to allow some less structured time for people to self-organize into small groups and get hands-on time at their own pace and specific questions answers. And don’t cough or sneeze into the mic as your voice is in their headsets at all time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. If you were creating some instructional materials about mobile video blogging in a developing country, like say Cambodia, what are the most important points to cover?

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The cards focus on strengths-based reflections and are an easy tool to get meetings started on a positive note, even if you are discussing challenging issues. We can couple those practices with shared tracking documents that clearly outline deliverables, timelines, and responsibilities. Second, use tools and practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group. His slides and my notes and reflections follow.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

And, now for some reflections on the screencasting process. Maybe I need to hone my screencasting workshop and instructional materials. I hope to carve out some time -- perhaps as part of my workshop at Boston Podcamp - to document some of these. I also put together a wiki filled with links and resources to aid your learning.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Better yet, the graduate student who led this project, Anna Greco, documented the whole project and did in-depth analysis of the visitor contributions. There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

In the nonprofit sector, the annual report is often viewed as a necessary document to fulfill financial reporting obligations. Follow the instructions in this blog to position your donors as the heroes of this story and inspire action! Future vision Use your annual report to outline your vision for the future.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Here are a few strategies that can help: Reflect on past performance: Use data from previous fundraising campaigns, such as Giving Tuesday, to establish benchmarks and inform your goals for the giving day. Reflect on impact: Reflect on the impact achieved through your giving day in advancing your organization’s mission.

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