Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition. Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity. The first two topics will focus on the direction of the “Learning Management Systems Industry (LMS).”

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Care2

JULY 13, 2011

You're happy with the new blog design, you understand the platform you've chosen, you've gotten sign-off from above to move forward, and you've signed a surprising number of your staff up to serve as regular bloggers. Here are some of the key lessons we've learned at Rad Campaign through blogger orientations and trainings we've run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Keeping people engaged in learning along the way happens when people discover that it is the learning that is exciting part! How Can We Learn in Public?

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting? A Comprehensive Examination of Social Media in Our Learning Programs. Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. New more consistent source of materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

.&# I’ve been giving some mindful attention to my system for professional learning online, using social media – and blog reading habits are definitely a part of that system. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting. To reach out to bloggers in the health care field. What Worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Learning in Public – Guest post by Victoria Dunning. Learning in Public. First, the risk – standing there learning naked with everyone else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

It’s also having a clean, complete, and accurate data and the discipline to make sense of the data and use what you learn to improve results. You write anything you want as long as it is about measurement and learning from your data. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Last year, I marked the date with the above photo and a post with tips for cultivating bloggers and how it was like a long term relationship. Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger's relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Learning in Public Challenges and Actions – guest post by Annie Hernandez. A lot of our grantees have also been interested in and learning about dashboards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon by Diana Scimone. When it was time for 09/09/09, I didn’t have to scramble to find RTers or bloggers; they were there. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. So I spent a year getting to know people and letting them know me. 4. Widgets work. What didn’t?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning – guest post by Cindy Rizzo. How to set aside time for reflection and learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2011

As I have said many times, I was a reluctant blogger. I did not think the Internet needed another blogger. My best guess as to why is only that the nonprofit blogger doesn’t know the basic HTML necessary to add links and images to their blog. But I was wrong. e-Newsletter sign-up. “Donate Now&# button.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. Learn about and document how the blogging team is doing outreach and encouraging new bloggers and share on my blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

You’ll learn lots. They are also experts in reflecting and learning about what works and what doesn’t with social media and I’m lucky that they have offered to continue sharing their knowledge on my blog! Using Social Media to Leverage Family Stories: MomsRising Shares Lessons Learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. What have you learned, Dorothy? She had to learn it for herself.” ” Tin Man: ”What have you learned, Dorothy?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2007

I can't do this alone and that's why I'm asking my blogger friends to join me and in helping to raise money to help the many children who are touched by the Sharing Foundation's programs. The Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy program helps farm children learn their native alphabet and numbers well enough to attend elementary school.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Click To Play Earlier today I posted about discovering some new photo blogs, podcasts, and videos from Cambodian Bloggers. Write one paragraph describing what you learned about shooting a video or how you might improve what you shoot the next time. Any other video bloggers want to offer some advice? Who are those kids?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. “Stand up if you use all the data your foundation collects,” said Jarod Raynor of the TCC Group at a GEO2012 session on “Learning in Public.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Roger Carr from the Everyday Giving Blog presented the Bloggers Who Create Community Award to Beth's Blog! Michele is an amazing blogger and a master of reflection and learning. Here's what he had to say: Beth is a guru in the use of technology for nonprofits. So, here goes: Michele Martin, The Bamboo Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

He told me about his elearning learning portal that might not only solve my blog categorization and finding issues, but also do it for a community of bloggers who write about a particular topic - say nptech and nonprofit bloggers. He set up an experiment with feeds from nptech bloggers. Communication. Organization.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. At the very least, allow the learning phase to finish before you consider turning off your campaign.). Conclusion: Try, learn, repeat. His work is focused on nonprofits, advocacy, and public affairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles. Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. How much do you retain?

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NetWits

MARCH 25, 2013

The npEXPERTS e-book includes Forbes’ most influential, top bloggers, CFRE/ACFREs, animal lovers and association pros, pioneers and innovators, peer-to-peer fundraisers, and direct response agitators all in one place. by John Haydon, Author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies and blogger at www.johnhaydon.com. Forward: The Digital World.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Blogger relations (not to be confused with blogger relationships like I'm describing above) that is blogger outreach came up as a topic in a workshop I did on social media and the arts earlier this week. Don't have your office intern hapzardly send out a canned pitches, get to know the bloggers first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. What to do? Quit Facebook or other social media? Um, no (go back and read the link and conversation to find out why.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

This post summarizes the results and a few insights about social media fundraising and network strategies as a way to share back what I learned and to help bring some closure. With that said, it is difficult to make time for learning when you have a big, hairy to do list breathing facing you or in this case when grief is involved.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

Changents is hosting a contest with P&G Give Health calling for bloggers to share why they are clean water Change Agents. What’s in it for bloggers? Learn more about Clean Water Blogivation! Tags: blogging campaigns africa bloggers campaign contest water. Have you signed up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

You need to provide opportunities for their continuous learning on the job and mentoring. Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. You want to inspire curiosity beyond formal professional development activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Many other nonprofit and do good bloggers helped promote the contest. 12/20: I wrote a follow up post expanding on design lessons learned in light of other, larger, crowdsource charity contests coming up which was also retweeted 140 times. Marc Pitman wonders what can be learned? I'm sure I've missed something. generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2007

Meet Virak , Phnom Penh Geek, and a member of the Cambodian Bloggers Summit team. Virak has promised to blog about what he is learning about video blogging in Cambodia. In fact, Virak learned so fast that I might site in the audience. Click To Play. It is here. We have two other cameras to give. The conversation is fantastic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. Relevance speaks to a nonprofit’s understanding of what the audience is interested in learning about it, and what kind of information will successfully forge a connection with the audience.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

From bloggers and designers to excel gurus and website coders, every nonprofit has its own makers right within their walls. So what can your organization learn from this? The post A Fresh Perspective—What NPOs Can Learn from a Makers Culture appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Don’t get stuck in the commonplace. Collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? Learn more about the conversation here. Improvement should be continuous, and we should learn from our mistakes. Photo by Darren Hester.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. I'm back in NYC which has been great thus far.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2013

However, as LinkedIn, Blogger and Myspace all celebrate their 10-year anniversary this year, nonprofits have now had a decade to study and experiment with social media and create systems for successfully launching and tracking the value of their social media campaigns. 47% of Americans learn about causes via social media and online channels.

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