Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities. I made this part of the instructions. 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 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations. Provide clear direction: Ensure that donors who may not be familiar with digital wallets or contactless payments receive clear instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Instructional Design. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. The Art of Good Closers. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I was able to pull this off because my course took place in the Digital Learning Commons “ D-Space ” – a state of the art flexible classroom space. I most often have to hack the space.

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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. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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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. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Are the products created via such a process of worse, better, or equivalent quality as traditional art products?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

.” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. The Art of Good Openings and Closings. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Its strategic partnership with Electronic Arts has enabled GlassLab to develop SimCityEDU, a game-based classroom tool that uses the beloved SimCity franchise to engage students in real-world challenges. Games provide tremendous opportunities for learning about real-world issues. Around Gender. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

In past posts, I've talked about: The Secret Life of a Wiki Gardener : Using a gardening metaphor, I drill down into the fine art of wiki facilitation. Workshop Companion Content At the very beginning of the project, people wanted to see "edited instructional content" - and Michele Martin wrote a great post about this.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

George is a stranger I met last week at SFMOMA’s new show, The Art of Participation:1950 to Now. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. Here are two pictures. The first one is me. The second one is George.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. Citizen instructional mediamaker?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. When you include icons and imagery in your branding guide, try your hand at design using Canva or other online resources instead of constantly pulling from pre-made clip art. Create your fundraising event page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). Nancy reminded me of my Arts Wire days when she responded: So what you are proposing is actually creating a network of poems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

been facilitated by this blog. with art teachers on the issue of integrating digital tools into their instruction. ve done while in my phd program has. I certainly would not have connected. with the experts and practitioners that I have without it. But, on the. flip side??? phd for the next year."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

She was given lots of instruction and support as she was costumed and asked to help present a slow dance. They repeated their actions and instructions over and over. The first participant, an older woman, was brought up to the stage in a very gentle, friendly way.

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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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Memory Jars installation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I hope to learn the art of sentence combining. I want to do a better job of connecting people in my network to one another, the art of network weaving and building social capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. I hope you get a good laugh. Here's the script.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

The key to making these exciting and accessible is to incorporate some form of direct mail ahead of time – you can mail craft supplies and instructions, bingo boards, or anything else your event will require. TUTORING ART Tutoring Art can even host Virtual Painting Fundraisers & Instructionals on your organization’s behalf.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The key to making these exciting and accessible is to incorporate some form of direct mail ahead of time – you can mail craft supplies and instructions, bingo boards, or anything else your event will require. TUTORING ART. Make it easy for supporters to start a fundraising campaign on your behalf. speaker events & Rallies.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. Case Study: The lost art of writing. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice. Rewriting (editing) is often crowned as the “art” of writing and it’s usually the most time-consuming and frustrating aspect of writing.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Zen and the Art of Non-profit Technology. instructional video. Non-Profit Web Design Blog. Principled Innovation LLC. Random Thoughts on Life and Work. The Bamboo Project Blog.

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