Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Crash Course: Social Media for Arts People View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: arts ).

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

For example, you might label a segment “Young Environmental Activists” or “High-Income Arts Patrons.” Use language and tone that reflect their preferences and communication style. This may involve asking them to donate, volunteer, attend an event, or share your content on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. 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? Social Instructional Design.

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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. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. This was circa 1997.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory. For the content of the labels, Anna used three strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. I tend to take a lot of photos to document the training approaches and use that for reflection to improve training techniques. I learn a lot more which I’ll save for another blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

Back in the earlier days of Internet publishing (circa 1994-5), UNIX programmer types used to cruise my Arts Wire SpiderSchool instructional web pages and point out to me that in line 24 of code I forgot a quote mark or even worse that I had made a typo in the text. Even worse, it cause some slow loading of my content.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. Over the past couple of years, one way that I synthesize blog content has been to do presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Surfing a tag stream (another word for a collection of content found in one screen using a tag) can also help you discover other people, s, and ideas. The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. Some immediate reflections on screencasting while it is fresh in my head.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 3, 2023

“Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.” – Hank Rosso Many times, as fundraisers, the role we’re really playing is that of an educator. In this article, you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to do that and what to include in your nonprofit’s giving guide.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Hackerspaces are about people, not content Hackerspaces are hybrid private clubs/public educational spaces. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 3, 2023

“Fundraising is the gentle art of teaching the joy of giving.” – Hank Rosso Many times, as fundraisers, the role we’re really playing is that of an educator. In this article, you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to do that and what to include in your nonprofit’s giving guide.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Other person: Nope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This year, Alan invited me to present a webinar for participants in the Marcus Institute Digital Education for the Arts on how Networked Nonprofits use Facebook. This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes. This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

He had no instructions to give or laugh lines to hit. Reading all of the responses, I was surprised to see that the vast majority (not reflected here) threw their audience out the window as a perceived obstacle to truly innovative design thinking. Usable art. Thomas would practice in front of them. His show was wordless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Tagging in Art Museums.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

It’s easier to get sidetracked, and it’s harder to stay on topic as you share content across your different marketing channels. Striking visuals and graphics: When you pick images or design graphics for your website, make sure they reflect what your organization is all about. For example, Instagram content is mostly focused on visuals.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! You have to create messages and experiences that are true to your brand and relevant to people, reflecting their needs. There’s Power in Numbers. In this context, relevance is as important as reach.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Reflect diversity. They can also create icons and a library of art that you can use for other areas of your website. Reflect diversity. That’s why you should choose website images that accurately reflect the diversity of your organization and surrounding community. Set quality standards. Leverage A/B testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. The idea is micro-content and micro-exercises or mini-sessions. The other idea it sparks for me is one about content. So, how do you account for that?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. It launched in October of 2007 with a very simple and understandable idea: to produce a global map of pieces of art made with stones on beaches.

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