Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. You can find all resources materials here. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides?

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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.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. Feng Shui of Good Training. Design Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? I know for myself that I don’t learn, retain, or apply when content is endlessly shared – even from expert – without a break. Having participants talk is better than listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

In this blog, we share the major types of grant proposal documents, their components, and free sample resources to show you what a successful version of each one looks like. Think of a cover letter as a compelling introduction to the contents of your full proposal. A list that outlines the proposal’s contents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in eLearning Industry in May 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission. Technology has impacted almost every aspect of our lives and training & development is no exception. It’s estimated that the mobile learning industry will grow to over $37 billion by 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. If you design and deliver training for professional development, what technologies are impacting your practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits, I’ve been working with grantees on a variety of capacity building projects – from coaching to workshops to peer trainings. Great questions that help plan my content for the workshop. All in all, a pleasant way to prepare for instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization.

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

The GPT of ChatGPT stands for generative pre-trained transformer, which is a group of language models trained to generate human-like text developed by OpenAI. The AI may also have trouble producing long-form content and create grammatical errors. The more information you can give the AI, the better it can produce content.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The three main types of AI you should know about: Generative AI are programs that can use your input to create new content, from images to texts to music. These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. Content creation Content creation is also simplified by AI for fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Quarterly Impact Reports enhance your website, email, and social media content strategy. Feature your landing page on the right bar of your blog. Add an opt-in form to your website and blog. Every Saturday or Sunday send a one-topic re-engagement email (event, blog post, fundraising campaign, etc.) M+R Benchmarks Report.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For those guests who still wanted to support the cause from home, Celebrity Waiters planned an entirely separate streamed program with its own content that was tailored to remote guests. And they made sure the virtual stream included specific instructions for using Greater Giving’s Online Bidding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. 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

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Teaching, leaning, and training has been my passion for 20 years. Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. 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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Nothing like first-person accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2023

These stories also help you post more regularly on social media, keeping your content fresh and consistent, which boosts your audience reach on most platforms. Nonprofit blog posts Blog posts help you establish your nonprofit as an authority within your cause and increase traffic to your website through SEO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. 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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. I also wrote guest posts for the Harvard Business Review and the LinkedIn Corporate Blog. Year in Review. My Theme for the Year: Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. 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

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

She’s a creative content creator focusing on delivering information about the importance of volunteerism for nonprofit organizations. She is passionate about creating engaging content, writing, and graphic design to help viewers easily retain information. Shreya Tragad is the Digital Marketing Specialist at InitLive.

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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. 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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

It seems that Training personnel are always focused on new and innovative teachings, and designers are obsessed with developing an open platform that can accommodate all these visionary changes that we as learning professionals would wish to implement.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

A consultant can create a roadmap to reach your goals from your eLearning pricing strategy, to the content you’ll provide, to how you’ll market those offerings. Creating a content development strategy. Creating a content development strategy. Assisting with the search for new learning technologies. Environmental Scan.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Before I start, it is best to issue a few disclaimers: I am not a neuroscientist; this blog post is not written with appropriate scientific method. But even then, I often felt my mind drifting off in class, doodled on notes, or encountered moments where I was not motivated enough to attempt to process the course content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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