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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

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In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Playing the Social Media Game with 100 Bay Area Nonprofits

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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. The note itself is an excellent job description for a social media intern. They shared how they worked through this internally.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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I also facilitated sessions on healthy and productive online and offline meetings for Guide Star, including a sessions about walking meetings at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference and Online Community Managers Meetup. When I look back on 2015, it was a very rich and productive year.

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

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Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Networks in an International Context. ask each member of the circle to pick two people, but don't tell them.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

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Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Gen Z by the Numbers.

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