Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” Photo by Equal Rights Advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Over the years, I have developed and refined one-day or half-day workshops on social media strategy and tactics for nonprofits. 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. Learning Together Over Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. Instructional Design Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links.

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APRIL 9, 2021

Grant funds from foundations, government entities, and corporations help nonprofits diversify their income streams. For example, if you’re a literary nonprofit, you may have the following budget priorities you’re looking to cover with grant funds: Honorariums to pay authors for participating in your reading series. Letters of support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. One thing I have noticed when co-designing workshops or gatherings with other facilitators, is that some facilitators like to specialize and or have a preference for one method or philosophy. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, teach your donors something that will stun them about your nonprofit’s work, or show them an actual picture of your work that makes everyone smile. If you’ve attended management workshops that drilled you on the SMART goals, now is the time to use them. Share simple instructions for how to alter email signatures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Take for example my colleague Eugene Eric Kim who shares his facilitation toolkit which includes links to his favorite Post It notes and markers. For example, with board thing, we all have control over organizing and taking notes on the “sticky notes” – and was interesting to see our emergent collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for design and processes. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links. Here’s my curated list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned?

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Due to high demand, CLI quickly expanded, and now offers an expanded service model including recurring workshops in literacy instruction and personalized, job-embedded coaching to help educators create a lasting love of reading in their students (of books like Where the Wild Things Are!). Star Wars: Force for Change. Greenpeace.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Use larger print (14-point font at a minimum): Larger print helps aging eyes. Regular communication can help maintain their engagement and trust in your organization. Providing educational materials, workshops, or seminars on estate planning and the benefits of making a planned gift, in person and via online video, is crucial.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

For example, a movie-themed event or a gaming night can bring together a diverse audience. Or try additional experiential events like interactive workshops, virtual reality experiences, or access to behind-the-scenes activities. This type of activity helps both with data collection and adds an element of excitement to the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. For example: Tips and experiences from them about summer learning programs. I learned a lot !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector. While at University of Phoenix, I specialized in the development of faculty workshops for our online faculty members.

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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. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Membership drives help organizations reach their goals, expand their impact, and ensure their future growth. Goals help you measure your success, track your progress, and get clarity on what you hope to achieve. In this stage, think about who would benefit from joining your organization and how a membership would help them.

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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. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop. With icebreakers, for example, you can use counting off or alphabetical order. 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

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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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. The action learning project will be designed to help grantees build a habit of measurement, reflection, and organizational learning.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

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MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. There was a spirit of conviviality and purpose and helpfulness and Spanglish in the air. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? How are Workshop locations selected?

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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. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. In Philanthropy. Around Gender.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Contests have also helped inspire nonprofits—motivated by cash prizes —to dip their toes into the social fundraising waters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. This also helped us create a bridge from the first to the second day. Here’s what we did: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content. For example, for the above exercise, I had the online audience take an online poll.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Last week, I faciltated a mini-workshop at the Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Leadership Forum hosted by Compasspoint. For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city. Lack of lighting is associated with higher crime. What is needed to be successful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road. We organize educational talks, workshops, exhibitions and public performances. These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. tags: arts ).

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