Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Supporters won’t read your blog just because they have a relationship with your nonprofit—they want to engage with informative, interesting content that actively furthers their understanding of your cause. Then, strategize ways to match your language, tone, and style to your audience’s interests. Simple language free of jargon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Training. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They do however face unique challenges, which are numerous and varied, reflecting the complex and evolving nature of the nonprofit sector as a whole. This isn’t a way of thinking routinely instructed in underserved schools. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

Since personal pages can come pre-populated with text, Invest in Kids provided templated language so that fundraisers didn’t have to author their appeal from scratch. Once submitted and verified, the match was reflected in their donation total right away. Still, CauseVox gave participants a lot of flexibility within their own page.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Use language and tone that reflect their preferences and communication style. For example, younger supporters may respond better to informal, conversational language, while older donors may prefer a more formal and traditional tone. Make it easy for them to take the desired action by providing direct links or instructions.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Segment Users Based on Activity/Interest. There are countless ways you can segment your audience , including last activity date, last donation date, last email clicked date, issues of interest, organization affiliation, and more. . Use clear, concise instructions for your calls to action, and try to use no more than ten words. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This is similar to what you may do in a face-to-face small group design, but not having eye contact or being able to read body language requires rethinking how you design a small group exercise using this software.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Try not to overdo it, but do not be afraid to use splashes of color, integrated music, modern conversational language/dialogue, humorous components, and narrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. He had us walk around the room following different instructions and then try to find two people and create a triangle. Not great as many of reflected. Collective Capital (@cocapimprov) April 6, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Moving around is better than sitting still to enhance learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

There are now 990 actively engaged Fellows— across the five focal countries of Ethiopia, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines—regularly participating in the Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health network activities. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

If you haven't yet checked out Seond Life and want to experience a "serious" activity, there are celebration events taking place throughout the week on Information Island. You can read the presenter's reflections on the event or what he calls "info-edu-tainment" here and a participate blogs about their experience here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory. This was used to evaluate the amount of emotional energy dedicated to the jar activity. The project was linked to a larger exhibition, Santa Cruz Collects , about why local folks collect things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The game has been remixed into different languages and used in different training contexts, but this is the first time it has been to Southeast Asia. If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 tools, this would have worked as a culminating activity. Activity geared to just becoming familiar with the tools and concepts.

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Qgiv

APRIL 8, 2024

Here are a few strategies that can help: Reflect on past performance: Use data from previous fundraising campaigns, such as Giving Tuesday, to establish benchmarks and inform your goals for the giving day. If you’ve never hosted a nonprofit giving day before, it might be difficult to realistically predict how much you can raise in 24 hours.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

As the sector seeks to minimize the burden on staff and grantees, the challenge for those in knowledge work is to be more conscious and reflective in designing grant questions that will most energize and strengthen the paths toward positive change. Then we asked, “What programs and activities are there for women and girls?”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

He suggested that those events are not effective in creating Christians in a meaningful way--the statistics of conversion and continued involvement are abysmal--and that Jesus' instruction to "make disciples" requires much more than making "converts." Content in non-majority languages, strollers, and other affordances help too.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. and opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Everyone is instructed not to create usernames identical to their real names. The last three reflect the interests of the users--and not in quantity (i.e. most views) but in recency.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The artist, Sue Lawty, maintains a blog with her reflections on the project and occasionally celebrates particular contributions, but this blog is fairly contained within the project website and is not a major source of web links. The activity is compelling. What makes the World Beach Project so successful? It's not marketing hype.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

Donors can immediately submit matching gift requests to their employer using the instructions we provide. Plus, the funds raised on Bonfire are reflected on Classy, helping those teams rally behind a single number. Simply activate Double the Donation within Virtuous CRM. Connect with Instagram’s 1 billion active users.

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