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

JANUARY 23, 2014

Certain room set ups encourage interaction between the participants and the workshop leader, others do not. The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it dampens interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

.” I’ll co-teaching the session with colleagues Andrea Berry, John Kenyon, and Cindy Leonard. The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops.

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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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We spent the day grouped with new leaders in the nonprofit sector learning vital skills for leadership and management. We listened to lectures, participated in reflections and had the chance to hear about real life experiences in the sector. Each session helped our students learn more about themselves and the future of the sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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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. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I did it! I’m now am feeling refreshed and recharged for a new year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn. The work I’m doing for the Emerging Leaders Playbook this to help train other trainers is fantastic opportunity to reflect, remember, and document facilitation processes and techniques. How about you?

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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

APRIL 1, 2014

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! This exercise helped us think through a “Minimum Viable Product,” but more importantly get consensus on our team about what was most important. ” What is Human Centered Design? We worked in small teams.

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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

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed! Their programming focuses on building skills in community organizing, critical and creative thinking, technical skills, entrepreneurism, and college preparation. I can’t wait to see where the future leads them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While most of the tech experts used lecture, demonstration, and hands-on practice as their pedagogical approach and we did some pre-session surveys, it was still important for us to get to better understanding of the skill, knowledge, and mindsets of the participants once in the room. This helps the interpreters prep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities. The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated. Organizations raised almost $125,000 through integrated social media campaigns from donors. 12 training centers have been established.

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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. What surprises you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. I thought the most helpful synthesis task would be a “design rationale.” That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training. It can be the first campaign strategy session.

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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

MARCH 25, 2014

One of my favorites was this terrific warm up from John Kenyon to help you when you are about to present. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises.

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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. Please leave a comment.

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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? Are you working 60 to 80 hours a week but only getting 40 hours worth of tasks done?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

” This helped shift the energy and energize. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Derrick is on the Leadership Faculty of the Points of Light Corporate Institute and a guest lecturer at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. Through training, coaching and consulting, Kivi helps nonprofit communications professionals both learn their jobs and love their jobs. He is a William J.

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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. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps. It also helps participants take risks in trying new techniques because they have the support of their peers.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The same holds true for lawyers, investment bankers, firemen, and doctors; their skills are not needed in day-to-day operations at the management level of a nonprofit. This perspective can help to make connections across the organization. Once the building is done, however, there's little need to have the architect stick around.

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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. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2007

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. Grow your network slowly and get to know your friends and be helpful. Don't just accept them.

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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.

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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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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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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

We discuss issues and trends in modern web technologies that help your organization achieve more with less. an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? What changes in knowledge, or attitudes, or skills are you looking for, and how might they be measured? Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

He observed that Podcamp 2 was a lot about relationship building versus skill building. He said that in the first month of this experiment, he got two phones - one was really urgent and the other he had to give a lecture to the person about the definition of urgent. She did an excellent session on presenting skills.

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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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Forj

JUNE 18, 2018

He has highlighted that “learning by doing” can help lead not only to “learning to know” but also “learning to do”. Skills learned in interactive simulations have the potential to be applied directly. Meanwhile, learning through lecture or reading may take more effort to incorporate into one’s daily practice.

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