Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. What are the best practices?

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. But applying it on your own – unless you are an analytics genius – can be difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0:

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Giving Philanthropy Teach Student 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Learning Network Organization Classroom 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. Source: Zazzle. How do you learn?

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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation.

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Content Brain Technique Lecture 97

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.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. The point is to keep the lecturing or “push” content to the limits of the human attention span and look for opportunities for sharing and interaction. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Think back to your school days, and which teaching style was most likely to keep your attention long enough to learn something â?? an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity.

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

I'm a huge fan of Jane's and have been writing about her work since the early days of this blog, so I was thrilled to learn that the CFM was bringing in Jane to speak live and then opening up the lecture to a wider audience of about 300 online. This is not an argument that is specific to museums. But the motivation is still external.

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Museum Game Structure South America 21

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Fundraising.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

” So there should be one person who is trained and who is the person who does all of the donor data. So a lot of vendors like Bloomerang, I get a weekly e-mail, I think it’s on Fridays, with all the training that’s available for the database. So make sure that you actually train them. Do not set someone lose.

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