Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” The Accelerated Learning Handbook. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way. By Dave Meier.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

AFP Lead is a national conference where the best and brightest fundraisers gather to learn and share about their successes and trials in the nonprofit sector. I was one of the lucky students who was able to travel and learn so much from the professionals at the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Learning Analytics.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. Event formats — for example, a lecture, a panel, a world cafe, or speed dating, and how keep them effective and manageable. Seattle, Washington: Storytelling Made Easy for Boards and EDs.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. Learn how Qgiv can help you and your volunteers make the most of your fundraising efforts! Volunteers help nonprofits connect with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they help me to gain focus and clarity. Last year, I added another tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement. This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon. How about you?

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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. These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I did it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Here’s a some of what I learned about facilitating innovation and train the trainers design. A Good Opening Opens Possibilities from Learning from Other Participants. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven. Think about your current work.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! They recognized the need for highly skilled leaders in the nonprofit sector. This will also help as a fundraiser for some of their year-long goals, such as attending the Alliance Management Institute in January. Tell us about the Alliance Management Institute!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The tough question that ran through my mind was: How can we as technologists in Silicon Valley help prevent this kind of atrocity? To help you understand it better, let me pick it up where I left off, back in 1993. I was aghast that it could take a dozen years for the world to believe the massacre had happened.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Some of these ideas are ones we have used ourselves or helped clients with. Virtual Lecture: A virtual event is a fantastic opportunity to land a speaker you never thought you would be able to get. Virtual Class: Look around and see who has a skill they could offer as a class. Virtual Gala: Go fancy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

What lessons have I learned that will stick with me for 2008?" If I learned anything from the Shelfari and the Spock , it is to use your critical thinking skills before joining a social network that a trusted friend has invited you to join. It isn't about broadcasting your message or lecturing. Thanks Beth).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

The New Media for the Networked NGO Networking Conference provided NGOs who participated in the E-Mediat program the opportunity to come together to share best practices, successes, challenges and lessons learned from their use of social media to effectively advance their organization’s work. 12 training centers have been established.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter? Whatever you choose, there are probably tutorial videos online that will help you learn to use them efficiently, raising your nonprofit productivity. Help you work smarter not harder? Keep plugging away through the learning curve. Make you more efficient?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned in your career? Any secondary interests?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques. This helps the interpreters prep. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. ” This helped shift the energy and energize. It totally changed the atmosphere of the room, and people were ready to learn. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. Design for Participants To Apply.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Tom Ahern makes his living by writing cases and direct mail … by doing audits, reviewing and recommending fixes for donor communications … and by teaching others what he’s learned during decades of trial, error and the occasional spectacular success. Ahern didn’t start in fundraising. He is a William J. John Haydon. JohnHaydon.com.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

When those who are responsible for an organization's overall fiscal management responded to a study by The Moody Foundation, it was found that nonprofits need to "fortify their financial skills to better forecast future needs, navigate economic instability, and manage risk." Patricia Lewis' role as Sr. 29. ^ [10] Ibid. 38. ^ [11] Ibid.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2019

Last summer, she switched from commuting to living on campus, and the school was there to help welcome her to the student housing , show her all the student resources, and involve her in campus life. She could see the impact of alumni support and could help get alumni (and herself and her friends) excited about it, too.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. What have I learned over my time, but especially over the last year of doing this podcast?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. Or the more elegant opening questions posed by Nesson: " Is there some magic in the Internet space that can help fight crime? The prisoners stay in the computer lab and work hard to master digital skills.

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Forj

JUNE 18, 2018

Therefore, in his research and publishing Aldrich has focused on the importance of “Learning by Doing”, which not coincidentally was the title of his second book, and “Serious Games”. He has highlighted that “learning by doing” can help lead not only to “learning to know” but also “learning to do”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I attended Saturday, but just like podcamp Boston 1 last year, I learned an incredible amount and met some extraordinary people. He observed that Podcamp 2 was a lot about relationship building versus skill building. Some things I learned: Twitter is loved by google - updated rapidly. This weekend was Podcamp Boston 2.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Adult staff members are not here to answer questions or help you. Instead, they get a lecture on what really happened in 1983. As Mira explained: The goal is for students to experience presidential decision making, and then debrief, discuss, and share, utilizing historical and civic literacy skills. You will make history.

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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. Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I used my communication skills and mantra to make sure “first things first” stayed a rule. I mean, they all are nonprofit programs and what better way to learn than to apply my class assignments to my placement objectives. Prioritizing is one of the most important things to master when creating a packed schedule for the year.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Learn how leading companies are getting the most from their data.

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