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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.” I went through what specific pages to read and why, and had included a screen capture of the six practical tips because I thought it was the best set of tips to approach content curation and highly relevant to the audience of nonprofit professionals looking for time saving techniques. from where I found this excellent resource.

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How to Wow in 4 Easy Steps: A Mash-up

Tech Soup

Identify a hero in your story and have your hero model the behavior you want your viewers to follow. Help your audience understand where you are in your story. Keep the length of your video at two minutes or less because science suggests our brains don't focus for much longer than that. Have a Hero. Drive people to action!

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Reflections: Center for Health Leadership Social Media Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Fundwriter.ai 101 – Can A Robot Write Better Than You?

The Fundraising Authority

I opened up one of Fundwriter’s appeal models ( Appeal – Human Impact ) and entered information as if Fundwriter.ai Use Fundwriter to write for your internal and external audiences. Step 1: Choose a Fundwriter model. Some models are meant to be used as building blocks to help you assemble longer documents.

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Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. It will not only keep your energy up, but your audience engaged.

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Reflections on a Decade of Designing and Facilitating Interactive Webinars

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once you’ve identified what people will learn from the webinar, think about your content in these three different categories: Self-Directed Reading: Materials and Information that participants can read and review on their own. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end.