Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The ability to “shift” delivery formats – from say an interactive lecture to small group activities helps students pay more attention. 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

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I don’t often encounter people from nonprofits in this stage because they won’t attend a workshop or a peer learning activity. If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. My Theme for the Year: Happy, Healthy.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. 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

MARCH 25, 2014

It is the trade off between doing a conference panel VS a workshop, perhaps this topic would have much more effective a pre-conference workshop. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Flexible Space: The Secret To Good Training. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning.

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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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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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. That’s the theory at least.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. It is also important to target the right level of authority. That’s where a lot of trainers fall short.

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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? How do you learn best at conferences or workshops? Source: Zazzle. How do you learn? What do you actually retain?

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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. She is an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator. AhernComm.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

For the past five years, the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati has honored Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthday by asking a writer to give the annual Harriet Beecher Stowe Lecture about, "Writing to Change the World." Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Lectures take place every second Wednesday of the month as part of our Brown Bag Lecture series. In a small rural town this is simple to do. As museum professionals we want visitors to feel akin to our institution and want them to refer to the SLHC as “their place”. Our attendance hovers around 20-25 visitors, mostly retirees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Social Media Conversations Marnie Webb writes about why nonprofit should stop lecturing and start listening and her experiences from a recent hands-on workshop where nonprofits were taught how to follow what was being said about their causes or organizations on the social web. How do you make easy?

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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? delivering a workshop), compared to evaluating a larger-scale outcome (e.g. impacts on decision making).

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Technology. ACCP: The Conference. Mar 20 - 23.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

Throughout my eight years of engaging in these issues and doing work around these issues, the way that I've seen more people reconsider their relationship with food - thinking about eating more healthfully or buying food locally - hasn't been from writing a book, doing a lecture, or doing workshops.

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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. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

The deck was part of a workshop facilitated by Gregor Aisch who combines data visualization, information design, and journalism. 2) The Functional Art : This is the title of a book by Alberto Cairo who also teaches infographics at the University of Miami. Here’s what I discovered. (1)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos. I don’t teach that way. Shoulder-to-Shoulder Learning.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2008

Machine Project is a gallery/educational program space with a focus on blending art and technology in craft workshops. I used it last night for backchannel chat during a lecture on gaming in museums with a group of about 20 students, and I was impressed by how easy it was for everyone to use. with no registration required.

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