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

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: . Tool Box.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later. Here are the instructions.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. JD Lasica , and Laura Novig.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

The best part of the project has been an opportunity to work with other people who are passionate about nonprofits and social media and instruction. The wiki content is a first draft, there will be also be a community-driven editing process. After a brief pause, the WeAreMedia. project continues into September and October tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

" We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. I also used Twitter to post questions that the group had out to my network for some answers and I created a wiki with all the links and posts that I refered to and used it to take notes during the report. " "How does it differ from others?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. Participant-Generated Instructional Content. They were all amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2008

Earlier this week, the WeAreMedia project we had an amazing phone call with some of the really smart people who are contributing the wiki (Michelle Murrain, Jocelyn Harmon, John Kenyon, Ben Sheldon, Ruby Sinreich, Amy Sample Ward, Sheetal Singh, and Katya Andersen). More information is here. How to identify and do more case studies?

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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. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The workshop was part of a professional development series organized by the very capable Kendra Lawton, with help from Melissa Cooper. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also need written instructions for the steps.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I really liked having "wikitation" (A wiki that you can use for a presentation) for the content See Social Media. He's spot on.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In the long run, they are helping to make the world a safer, fairer, healthier place to live. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox. I drank the Slideshare kool aid in November, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation. I'm glad I put my first draft thoughts out there because I got some helpful clarifying comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  The game is intended to help you think through a social media strategy and share tips and knowledge. Instructions for Playing.   I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it. so suggestions welcomed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I also put together a wiki filled with links and resources to aid your learning. How can I help? Maybe I need to hone my screencasting workshop and instructional materials. You can learn more about the partnership at the Salesforce.com Foundation site and the NTEN web site. I have shared everything I know -- for free!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are some technical or graphic design needs that I can't do myself, so I'm getting help from some of my colleagues, including Laura Whitehead, Tony Karrer, and Michelle Murrain. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. 50 Tips to Unclutter Your Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. " Allan Benamer discloses that it was his idea, and implemented with some help from Deborah Finn. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project. What's your guess?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. Citizen instructional mediamaker? And, now mid-2000 this has changed again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Sometimes it helps to have a colleague or blogging buddy. Openness - ????A Step 1: Find People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

More specifically, I help non-profit, small business and academic groups and individuals learn how to use web applications and services like RSS, blogs, wikis, search, social bookmarking, podcasting and more. Do you have step-by-step instructions for feedburner?). I'd like to help this happen more in the non-profit world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. Written instructions were not enough to compel them to do otherwise. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

These creatures can be registered on a wiki , and there are easy tools to upload videos directly to YouTube from the game of your creature taking its first steps and yawlps. Yes, the tools available to help you make creatures are lovely, but you still have to have that inclination in the first place. What does the ultimate "game 2.0"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

And, it helps to be guided or you will ask what's the point ? " 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. A time investment of more than a few hours.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. instructional video. This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. Ease of use - technologies that delight you and those that frustrate you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

This session will get beyond the trendy obsession with social networks and help participants better understand the dynamics and metrics of successful networks. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

A few weeks ago, Nick Bilton told me about the hackerspace he helped found called NYCResistor. And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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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. Facebook Overview (MIDEA wiki) [link].

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