Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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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. 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 4, 2009

Then the project first launched, we invited the community to help us build the curriculum on a wiki. I think one of my favorite community curriculum building efforts was the toolbox - a community curated selection of how-tos, tips, and information about social media tools. We even gave away WeAreMedia t-shirts to contributors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. Here’s a few that I found most informative: Best Practices for Big Data: Learning from the Past While Looking to the Future. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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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. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. In other words, how can you make the learning more social before, during, and after the instruction?

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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

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

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

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

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. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to).

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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. While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. 3) Informal Collaboration with Peers. I drank the Slideshare kool aid in November, 2006.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2010

Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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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

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

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. It's messy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

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. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project. Not sure what a Game for Change is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

I've been trying to organize and clean up I don't know how many gigs of information, some dating back to 1992, the year I started working online full-time. Information designer. Citizen instructional mediamaker? What does the Internet look like? Digital Creative Thinker. Electronic Preservationist. Telecollaborator.

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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. I try to take this very seriously, and I'm just beginning to learn ways to engage in an informed manner.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts. 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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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. This makes me more comfortable for me to open my laptop and take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. THIS is Iron Chef ???

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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

JULY 16, 2012

It’s definitely one to add to the “ Nonprofits Data Visualization Wiki ” that I’ve put together to curate and present the best resources for instruction based on ongoing curation over at scoop.it. I’ve gotten more than a few good visuals for presentations as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I pointed to a lot of posts in my thank you note immediately after the event , but want to pick out a few more posts that contain a wealth of information about relationship building on the social web. For example, the google document served a quick wiki - it was simple, not over built and easy to participate.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. The web site should present the Department's vetted information and make sure this information is clearly identifiable. Vote for this Idea]. Vote for this Idea].

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