Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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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. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this case, we needed to talk to a lot of folks: the Development team who oversaw tuition and financial goals and to determine if any programs shifts affected funding and if we could find additional support for any technology needs. teaching artists who directly interacted with students. It takes a team.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication? So the evaluator has to consider if they are going to: Teach. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The following emerged for our group: How do we support individual leaders in risk taking that leads to emergence? How do we teach leaders to know when emergence is working?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

It also helps participants take risks in trying new techniques because they have the support of their peers. 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. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. Well Being: This relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Leadership Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

This is why you purchased ‘support,’ so talk to your provider. Here is advice from several providers to give you a general idea: Bloomerang : YouTube video with instructions for coding gifts as “in-kind” in the “Fund” field and entering a gift value of $0. So familiarize yourself with best practices. — Charity Clairity.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By automating these time-consuming tactical steps, you can spend your time managing callers, increasing donations, and engaging in deeper relationships with supporters. Submission deadlines and instructions. Immediately after the conversation, send an email with matching gift request instructions for the individual’s employer.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 15, 2019

Nothing says spring quite like flowers, so host a workshop that teaches donors the basics of floral design. Then all you’ll need is proper instruction and complimentary refreshments. Supporters can declutter their houses and drop it off at your door or arrange a pickup. Community Picnic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

You’ll be reading more about how to learn – either professional learning or learning in organizations or learning from peers and how technology – especially social networks and data supports the process. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. My Three Words. What is your theme for the year?

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Offer support to run interference or troubleshoot challenges. I am not a fan of employees training each other unless you can shift responsibilities to ensure that people have the capacity to take on a teaching role. The best instruction is probably going to come from the experts who are most familiar with the product, i.e. the vendor.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts. Convey teachings in a manner that doesn’t sound like a dictionary definition.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

A lively discussion took place regarding how to prepare young people for the jobs of the 21 st century and what nonprofits and corporations can do to support the initiative. After graduating from Year UP, she snagged an internship at Kaiser Permanente as a Desktop Support Technician. Libraries Building Bridges. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Participants worked in teams to brainstorm a campaign to support the message in the film in their country. The environmental and recycling message was relevant to all in-country teams. It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

This includes keeping your LMS up and running smoothly and providing end-user, after-hours, and overflow live phone support. Everything that goes into a learning business needs to be supported by staff, technology, and the external market. This step helps us understand what level of support your team will need along the process.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

COVID-19 is forcing nonprofits to think differently about engaging supporters. Grabbing supporters’ attention requires having highly engaging opportunities, and lots of them. Grabbing supporters’ attention requires having highly engaging opportunities, and lots of them. food prep, packing, distribution).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment? Detail a process.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For example, an education foundation recently sent an email subject line that read: Our teachers are refusing to teach math today! . Mailchimp has easy instructions on how to do a name merge in the subject line. Can we count on your support? How to give families the support they need right now. Pose a question.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. The Role of Schools.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Joy Neal (right) is the library director and Lane Fernando (below) is their tech support person. They plugged in peripherals first and then read instructions mainly for software configuration.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Joy Neal (right) is the library director and Lane Fernando (below) is their tech support person. They plugged in peripherals first and then read instructions mainly for software configuration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations. Round Robin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

I've had the honor to work many people who are using social media for social change or fundraising, support their work, cheer them on, and learn from them. It's like we're all working together, informally, in a networked way to support one another's work. I got to teach two back to back sessions of the class and it was exhilarating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. Here are the instructions. Naeema Zarif started us off with an energizer that involved our respective countries National Anthems.

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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. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

This task is made even harder if your CME learning management system ( CME LMS ), the platform that delivers eLearning to your association’s members, fails to support you in the effort. The goal of this piece is to ensure that the next CME LMS you invest in supports your organization effectively. Decreased Non-Dues Revenue.

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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. Support a fun icebreake r. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. In other words, to what end? I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

Forming Stronger Support for Computer Science. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. It's free to anyone who wants to attend, regardless of where they live.

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