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. 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. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. Movement helps wake them up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. I was inspired so I decided to alter one of the exercises in the design lab I facilitated two days later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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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. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S.

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MAY 25, 2021

Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. Responsive design. Instead, you should seek a CME LMS that can facilitate virtual events alongside CE programming. Offline use with automatic sync.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes. After hearing a story from a peer.

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