Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.

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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

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. Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2011

Register here and instructions on how to participate in the live stream). They are teasing out what’s working and are grappling with significant challenges and questions as they do this work. They are teasing out what’s working and are grappling with significant challenges and questions as they do this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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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. Day 2: Certificates Awarded To Senior Staff Attendees. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Also humor, especially with props, works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. The wiki also included how-to handouts to use later.

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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. A Two-Day Face-to-Face Intensive Workshop that looked at strategy and tactics and co-taught by contributors to the wiki. What are the best emerging examples and early lessons learned? November 1-15th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Over the past few months, I have had the pleasure of working with NTEN and Holly Ross on a new community-driven social media and nonprofits curriculum project, funded by the Surdna Foundation. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater , a place where you try out experimental works before you bring them to the main stage. I was incredibly lucky to have a fantastic group of participants , all passionate about their work, very knowledgeable, and excited about integrating social media into their programs or communications plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

The screen capture is a visual conversation trigger to answer the question, "How does your working environment affect your work?" " We have uploaded the screenshots into our wiki profile pages. " What are some ways that you have incorporated the use of social media into your face-to-face instruction?

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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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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I'm in the instructional/educational category. I don't expect to win given the amazing instructional vlogs that in that category and that I have used to learn how to vlog. I'm a volunteer on the working group.) so you can find my work in wiki portofolio

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I really liked having "wikitation" (A wiki that you can use for a presentation) for the content See Social Media. He's spot on. Once I get in the room, we throw away the slides.

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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. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

They engage people to shape and share their work in order to raise awareness of social issues, organize communities to provide services or advocate for legislation. As a speaker and trainer , Slideshare, along with wikis, Twitter, and other tools are important part of my trainer’s social media toolbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

I wonder if this will work as well with people who are not filmmakers? This wiki joke went over well: What happens when a crowd of film fans use a wiki ? I had to restate the instructions again and I said, "Write down on the back of the $20 bill" Rather than painfully print and cut up the cards myself, I used kinkos.

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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

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Of course, the projector didn't work (did I mentioned that I had lugged the 50 pound projector up four flights of stairs.) But it worked out, I think. I could have done some things better with Webinar instructional practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Instructions for Playing.   I set up a wiki where I've collected links to others who have remixed and was hoping to create some templates and source material for people to remix it.   I got an email from Demetrio Maguidgad explaining how he remixed the game, how it worked!  so suggestions welcomed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

I also put together a wiki filled with links and resources to aid your learning. Maybe I need to hone my screencasting workshop and instructional materials. NTEN and SalesForce.Com Foundation sponsored my latest screencast called "Leveraging New Audiences for Nonprofits" (using GoogleAdWords and SalesForce Integration).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. This will go hand in hand with the training work I do. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

More than one third of Packard Foundation’s grantees are networks and many more get their work done through networks. But over the past two years, the program has expanded its work to include a focus on how grantees can improve the strength and use of these networks. . His work was recently profiled in this New York Times piece.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm having to quiet some inner Gollums while working on the presentation materials. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication. 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. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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MARCH 3, 2011

You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. Surprising or unexpected, as well as unknown, works from the permanent collections are featured. Written instructions were not enough to compel them to do otherwise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I was curious by how he described his work: "blogger coach to nonprofits." So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. What type of work do you do in the nonprofit sector? I am working on making a living turning other people on to it all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

In-world speakers from nonprofits who spoke about their work included Evonne Heyning from Camp Darfur, Barry Joseph from Global Kids , Lori Bell from the Library Alliance , and Marc Sirkin from LLS. Jeska Linden , Community Manager for Linden Labs, has the mike in her hand, while her avatar is behind the podium in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement. Non-Profit Technology Work: How You Can Do Good submitted by Fred Benenson, Creative Commons. Gear and software for people with disabilities is usually provided through charity or from medical supply companies.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

I work with Bonasources Wild Apricot marketing team. Random Thoughts on Life and Work. instructional video. Im Rebecca Leaman, and its my pleasure to join the Wild Apricot blog team in exploring how to use the internet and web 2.0 tools more effectively. Currently I am the primary blog writer. Read more about this blog.

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