Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities. Then, had them count off by table numbers.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Advanced software, technology tools, and innovative methods are being used to enhance training program’s quality, participation and engagement as well as to enable corporate training to be a more personalized experience. Offline storage and data management can take place, even when the user is not connected to the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. 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. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. If that revenue is on the decline, the experiences you’ll be able to provide for members will be directly impacted.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Are you including instructions in your online appeals as to how to reach you offline, and vice versa? Have you tested out what your users' experience might be? Have you spiffed up your donation button, landing page, donation form, remit piece, and so forth? Are you easy to find? Easy to contact? spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also facilitated sessions on healthy and productive online and offline meetings for Guide Star, including a sessions about walking meetings at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference and Online Community Managers Meetup. One happy, healthy habit I started in Oct, 2013, was to integrate more movement into my work day.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.” Community member Mera Szendro Bok had a similar experience: “It wasn’t my expertise that led me to lead a chat, it was my inquiry.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Claire Sale, a longtime #CommBuild champion, says this is her favorite part: “Mixing the online/offline builds stronger bonds between people and projects.” Community member Mera Szendro Bok had a similar experience: “It wasn’t my expertise that led me to lead a chat, it was my inquiry.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. Some of us experience goal conflict between individual and the group. ask each member of the circle to pick two people, but don't tell them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2007

And, I have to prepare some instruction in a completely different context, get organized to visit Sharing Foundation projects, pack T-shirts, AND finish the massives amount of work before I go. The jing project is their first experiment in the Mac platform. Click to play. That in and of itsef is a little mind blowing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. What might be a first step, low risk experiment? What worked? What didn't?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

My colleague, user experience expert Brian Verhoven, puts it simply: "the most successful sites are those that offer new content, on an ongoing basis, that users need and want." Just as in offline circumstances, online users learn from their peers in terms of how to interact with social objects.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

The current iteration of the AI boom, which went mainstream in 2020 and exploded toward the end of 2022, will revolutionize the internet, digital communication, and offline activities in ways we may not even realize. Statistically, at least one or several of your organization’s employees are using it or have begun experimenting with it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. Beth’s Social Media Lab – Facebook Experiments.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

And one of the best ways to do that is through integrated, consistent messaging across all channels – online and offline. You have to create messages and experiences that are true to your brand and relevant to people, reflecting their needs. Looking to grow your nonprofit fundraising program? Of course, you are – it’s why you’re here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment. Look out, the next reiteration of micro fundraising on Twitter is coming on February 12, 2009 and will combine online twitter fundraising with an offline event. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

Donors can immediately submit matching gift requests to their employer using the instructions we provide. Provide a seamless matching gift experience for your donors and your team. Set your nonprofit’s logo, incorporate your color scheme, and upload evocative photos for a cohesive brand experience.

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