Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Advocacy helps you recruit new committed supporters and keep your existing supporters engaged. Before this, he was an Instructional Designer and Editor at Element K, a provider of learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits. Online advocacy is the cornerstone of online fundraising strategy for many nonprofits.

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Advocacy Grant Fund Online 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. How about you?

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2019

Everyone knows that social media has a massive impact on today’s culture, so how can social good organizations effectively leverage it to engage supporters? The guests in this episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast are going to help answer these questions. What does your organization need to do to execute an effective social media strategy?

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Social Media Podcast Media Instructional Design 21

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. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. How can we turn our fans that we engage with on social media into financial supporters of our organization? The common tip?

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

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. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I did it!

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Support a fun icebreake r. In other words, to what end?

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Their advice will help you focus in on #GivingTuesday and guide your organization, message, and campaign towards new heights. Engage your supporters – tell them you have something special coming for #GivingTuesday. Tips from Mel Rancour and Jackie Zimmerman from Blackbaud University: Just starting now?

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Tips University Blackbaud Instructional Design 26

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. As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. Increase reach on social media channels.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. It helps people process complex thoughts. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. It is basically a pause.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

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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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Through online diaries and blogs, WildlifeDirect brings supporters and conservationists together and enables individual donors around the world to communicate directly with the people that they are funding.

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Program Reflection Instruction Instructional 78

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

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

This task is made even harder if your CME learning management system ( CME LMS ), the platform that delivers eLearning to your association’s members, fails to support you in the effort. The goal of this piece is to ensure that the next CME LMS you invest in supports your organization effectively. Complicated Accreditation Reporting.

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Associations eLearning Module Course 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

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. We can put shoulder-to-shoulder learning on steriods by integrating the use of social media to support learning. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Finally, you might discover that your learning technology isn’t designed to support the subscription model – it kind of forces you into the on-demand model.

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Hype eLearning Model Badge 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He talked about the trend of :”Networked Individualism” that while networks – having both loose and strong ties can give you what you need – information, financial resources, and support – in a networked world you have to work harder than in a “tight knit world.” Instructional Design Notes.

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 114

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. The overarching goal of your eLearning courses is to help your association’s members be more knowledgeable and impactful in their careers.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

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.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

With e-learning, you don’t need to organize an in-person event and have a staff member on-hand to lead it—you can simply email course access each time a new supporter wants to join your ranks. But, does that really help your learners do their jobs better? Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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Training Train Tech Tips 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

In that scenario, you’d want to bring in an eLearning expert to help with the project. On the other hand, if you’re looking to author a fairly straightforward course and seeking a simpler course authoring tool to help in the effort, that scenario may warrant investing in a new solution. 10+ Top Tools.

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eLearning Authoring Course Platform 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Beyond the dollars raised, there is also value in growing your organization’s network.

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Fund Campaign Practice Giving 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

More recently, with support from the Packard Foundation, I’ve been working on an Emerging Leadership Development project with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies. We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses. Would it work without full-time staff support?

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Museum Arts Problem Design 45