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. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. organizational change, and technology. Program 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. I worry, however, about potentially adding confusing information while beth et al.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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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.

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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. Prizes will offered too!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Then, I asked people to report out the burning questions and add them to the wiki page set up for this.

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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. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

As I was reflecting about Slideshare and thinking about the characteristics of nonprofits featured in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , I realized that Slideshare is a haven for them. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I've gotten into the habit of asking if there will be confidential information shared and what is or isn't bloggable. Eugene said at the beginning that he would not be sharing any confidential information and that everything is open. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? The Digital Natives Wiki illustrates the beginning stages of a larger research project on digital natives from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and other partners.

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MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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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!) While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. over email.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left with free tshirts branded with the museum's name (and other sponsors), wrote about it on a wiki and shared photos on Flickr. Talk to the folks at Instructables. To some people, these events may sound like losers. They don't generate rental revenue (usually). Lots of people come in for free to party and ignore the exhibits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like.

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