Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Attendees will explore concrete examples and tools that grantmakers can use to tap the power of networks and increase peer-to-peer learning among grantmakers who are experimenting with networks. Register here and instructions on how to participate in the live stream). Check out these posts for background: Networked Funders Wikis.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 21, 2013

The Wiki How piece is very similar but has good clear pictures. The Pace Butler Cell Phone Data Erase Tool is operated by the Oklahoma City based mobile phone recycling company Pace Butler. Their data erase tool is a web page where you can find short videos on how to reset several different phones, the main models mostly.

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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

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. The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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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. Where "responsible" community members and the wiki gardener (me) will add. These sections are: .

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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. The next session (conducted in Arabic) was a demonstration of listening tools for social media trainers. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later. Here are the instructions.

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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 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. The categories of tools are loosely based on the Conversation Prism from Brian Solis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. Last week, I took along my N95 and used as a documentation tool - and a way to bring others from outside the class into the discussion. It starts today!

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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. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . It prevents us from falling prety to shiny objective syndrome. .

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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

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). Amy Sample Ward has already volunteered for one of the modules.

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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. 5) Tool For Networked Nonprofits To Share Draft Documents and Get Feedback. 6) Training.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Instructions for Playing. I won't be going over the tools in detail as many will have been discussed during the early part of the day and they can ask one another in their small groups.    Each tool is worth a certain amount of points and each group can only have up to ten points. 5 minutes). .  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

Today, about 10 minutes before I had to leave for the Making Media Now Conference in Boston to do a workshop for documentary filmmakers on how to use social media tools to market their films, I got the blue screen of death. This wiki joke went over well: What happens when a crowd of film fans use a wiki ? They came out great!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation. The slides and resources list are on the wiki. tools creatively? Lead2020, Mitch Owen: [link]. Kevin Gamble [link].

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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. 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

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool. I will explore in more depth the analytics tools.

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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

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. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Step 5: RSS As Information Coping Tool. Step 9: Wiki Wiki. Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

What sent me on a trip down memory lane was this excellent post by David Wilcox describing a new role for an online facilitator using social networking and media tools. Citizen instructional mediamaker? All that means that social reporting, to be successful, requires a pretty full set of skills and tools. Nonprofit Technologist.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Expo about Spore , and claimed that the power of Spore is not as a game but as a "self-expression tool." These creatures can be registered on a wiki , and there are easy tools to upload videos directly to YouTube from the game of your creature taking its first steps and yawlps. Last week, Wright spoke at the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

With the entire network engaged, the leaders worked together to create a report to document the lessons they were learning from implementing leadership programs for reproductive health, through a new wiki. Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. Technology is a dehumanizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. 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.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. tools, to get past some of those communication barriers â?? tools more effectively. both electronic and print.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social Media for NonProfit Rockstars submitted by Ed Schipul Nonprofits wanting to enter into the Social Media arena are faced with endless new networks and tools to try, but a few have kicked some major butt. This panel will explore and discuss the impact of tools like Twitter, Qik, Utterz, Ustream, and more on current and future elections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki. Here’s a couple of new tools I’ve been exploring: RowFeeder should be in your spreadsheet aerobics routine.

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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!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. Facebook Overview (MIDEA wiki) [link].

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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.

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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. Use online search tools like Technorati, Google blog search, and searches on individual networking sites to quantify the output of these events.

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Gyrus

JULY 7, 2016

Classes: a furtherance of courses, allowing for instruction and defined building block learning style. Quizzes: Occur weekly/bi-weekly to reinforce class assignments and instruction. In business, a course could be a single 3-hour instruction with an evaluation at the end. Courses mean different things. Teaching Focus.

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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. Interactive Rich Media Learning Tool for Historical Benefit Info. On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. income, age, etc.).

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