Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. First as an adjunct professor, I’m always interested in seeing how others teach their classes, particularly how the content is chunked and the activities.

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JANUARY 15, 2016

Online resource EdSurge has even compiled a five-point list for educators to help understand and begin merging VR into their lectures and lab exercises as well as how to create their own custom-made videos as supplements to their normal teaching routines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. I made it to the 1000K level for United, in part, due to too many International trips, including teaching a master class and workshop session at the IFC-Asia in Bangkok, teaching a workshop in Brasil for Ford Motor Company Leadership Fellowship Program, and Tech2Empower in Peru.

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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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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

It serves — in Tyler’s words, as a “teaching landmark” — but one that goes beyond the initial instance to explore discrimination in many other forms. Museum programming, which included films and lectures, was also moved online. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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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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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: 3) Giving 2.0:

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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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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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. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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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. Training Design' Source: Zazzle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation.

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource. However, some people do.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

If John in Marketing learns best via Instructor-Lead training, and Suzy in Document Control works best in an impersonal self-instructed pathway. Consider Instructor lead training to add the human effect of seeing learning styles first hand. Convey teachings in a manner that doesn’t sound like a dictionary definition.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Tom Ahern makes his living by writing cases and direct mail … by doing audits, reviewing and recommending fixes for donor communications … and by teaching others what he’s learned during decades of trial, error and the occasional spectacular success. AhernComm.com. Ahern didn’t start in fundraising. He is a William J. John Haydon.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Cause Camp is more than two days of lectures, it’s an experience dedicated to education, collaboration and inspiration to keep your (camp) fire alive. He is committed to making it ridiculously easy for everyone – board members, volunteers, and nonprofit staff – to get fundraising training. Ask Without Fear!

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. A lover, not a lecturer. Claire runs “Clairification School” online, teaches the CFRE course that certifies professional fundraisers, and is a regular contributor to Guidestar, NonProfit PRO and Maximize Social Business. A helper, not a hinderer. .

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JULY 25, 2017

To summarize: the editors felt it is important to gather a team of scholars who could articulate the meaningful trends and topics surrounding the training of health professionals. Moreover, I would add, CME conjures up images of physicians attending lectures. Turco why their team of editors felt there was a need for this book.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The delegation included representatives from women’s rights foundations, a medical doctor and lecturer, a university vice-chancellor, and the head of the Women’s Status Unit of the Istanbul Governor’s Human Rights Department. Peg has international experience in education and training that provides her a unique perspective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I came across the term “Learning Analytics” in an NPR story about the effectiveness of college lectures and ways to make learning more interactive. There are different definitions. Learning Analytics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Invitation to an intimate post-show, post-lecture, or post-keynote “talk-back.”. Free access to trainings or programs that normally have a fee. Does your organization do in-person or online trainings?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. So for teaching robotics, he starts with an actual object. Cyberschool.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

My training is in biology, so I am going to use an ecological metaphor to explain my thinking on this. Dr. McGonigal’s CFM lecture on “Gaming the Future of Museums” (given at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. These are programs that encourage museums to conform to proven models of success (standards and best practices).

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In order to create transitional-age youth programming, and to improve the certified peer-support training, I needed to do a lot of observing and analyzing. However, I was still able to use and apply many of the theories and teachings on a regular basis.

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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. A recycling bin that cheers for you when you flatten your cans.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 23, 2007

can transform the teaching and learning experience. We have many clients who use the environment for guest lecturers and virtual field trips on a global level. Elluminate is a leading provider of live Web conferencing and eLearning solutions for the real-time organization. Elluminate Live! In other words, Elluminate Live!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. It wasn’t until she learned to let go of control and shift from lecturing people to inviting them in that conversation exploded.

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