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“Two Events in One”: How Celebrity Waiters Put on a Successful Hybrid Fundraiser

Greater Giving

To accommodate latency issues and provide a shorter, tailored experience for virtual guests, Celebrity Waiters created two entirely separate slide decks for each audience. And they made sure the virtual stream included specific instructions for using Greater Giving’s Online Bidding. Tips for hosting a killer hybrid event.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. That’s the theory at least.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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 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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Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides? I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. I nominate #14ntctrain.

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Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Documentation of Session.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. I think people are more likely to pay attention if they know that they might in the presentation. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.