Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Whether the model your foundation is using to help its grantees is a one-day master class or extended program, in the end, success is about having participants apply what they’ve learned and make these new skills an organizational habit. The tactics can include workshops , master classes , coaching , expert consultants or peer learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. 8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits by Salsa Labs.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Do staff members need to develop a skill, such as the ability to recognize and avoid common grammar mistakes? Or, do they need to change their mindset, such as revising their habits and lifestyle to work from home successfully? Design a course that targets that change. Decide how that change happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills. Facilitated Listening Skills.

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Forj

JANUARY 23, 2018

Introducing people to new instructional design concepts is very important, but providing people with the tools and skills necessary to bring those ideas to life is just as important. I’ve enjoyed prepping for this session because it has forced me to reflect on my own process and dig into the why s of what I’m doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., There are many ways to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. The curriculum was based on their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book and “ taxonomy for innovation.” ” What is Human Centered Design? We worked in small teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Year in Review. My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. However, it is harder to make pivots when you have a team that has not worked together before. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions?

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? A consultant with advanced knowledge of learning technology, instructional design, and learning business best practices can inform that strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are working very closely with Dr. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen firsthand the various types of assessments that can be included in an eLearning course. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. Group Collaboration with Feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. The second half used a communications style diagnostic called “ The Social Style Model ” which helps people learn how to improve their people skills by being able to understand their own communications style and those who are they are interacting with and then “flex.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I am particularly grateful to Cindy Leonard who compiled and consolidated our slides based on the design. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. I’ve done this for many projects and it is a difficult design task when you are doing it as the sole trainer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Program Design. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

But none of this would not have been possible if not for the dedication, vision, and leadership from Andrew Means, who has passionately been working on creating a learning community of nonprofit professionals interested in data for social change called Data Analysts for Social Good.

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Conference Data Exercise Reflection 50

Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

With the only resolution to this issue being to schedule yearly training meetings/events, or requiring intensive eLearnings where the floating personnel is not only taken away from their work, but they are often participating with varied levels of attention and an abundance of distractions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. People with communications orientations work with research in different ways than program people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. 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.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Successful candidates must have experience working in the Salesforce ecosystem across a variety of clouds, roles and functionalities. . Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus .

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

But, just because your current in-person training efforts are technically working, that doesn’t mean that they’re the best solution for your overall organization, staff members, and volunteers alike. They believe in the work of your organization and they want to play a role in advancing that work.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Microlearning is a brief (less than 5 minute) learning component with a focus on a very particular learning object (specifically a skill, behavior, or compliance piece). Wait, it appeals to shortened attention spans and works great with our hustling staff who is constantly on the go? How do I know if my microlearnings are working?

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eLearning Instructional Design Alternative Mobile Learning 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

We many not be able to do visualization like a data scientist, but having a basic literacy in visualization skills can help work more effectively with data geeks and navigating our work. I’m writing this post from Tunisia. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Tunisia Instructional Design Technique Literacy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your overall learning business strategy and tech tools such as your learning management system (LMS) and eCommerce tools work together to deliver content to your learners. Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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