Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Social Learning: Face-to-Face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I got to learn a few new tricks and continued to polish approaches already in my toolbox. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Active Learning Through Play: Another trick that I learned from Ellie was having toys on the tables for participants to play with. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

And for many donors, giving is a reflection of who they want to be. The Maimonides “Golden Ladder” of Giving says capacity giving (teach a person to fish), and anonymous (no credit needed) gifts, are the “highest,” but I’ve never really held to that. You want to be your best self , and live up to your potential. And virtuous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. Takeaways. Mindfulness'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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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. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. Thanks for providing this fantastic hub for learning and sharing NTC! Learning that other non-profits were working through the same issues my organization is going through, whether it be applying technology, buy-in from stakeholders, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

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. My Theme for the Year: Learning. But, it isn’t just about learning new techniques or ideas. 2014 will be the year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. Camaraderie is one of the best learning opportunities. Most everyone in attendance arrived with the same knowledge base and eager attitude to learn together as these tools mature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. I hope that participants took away from our session, if nothing else, that content curation requires the human brain, as Robin Good points out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. Beth Kanter, Learning from Failure. Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people.

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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

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

If you were looking to find the “best” teaching method, you would have had a hard time finding a definitive answer. In the last 15 years, researchers have gotten a much better understanding of how we learn, which has allowed people to apply new methods that help teach more effectively. Check them out and see what works for you.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Beth Kanter actually attended an event -- and learned something! usually doing the teaching ;). Unconference where Beth did some learning at, see the summary Allyson Kapin provides over on the Care2 Frogloop blog. For some Zen time, read Michelle Murrain 's reflections on coding -- why coding today is so different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Bradley Horowitz from Google was very funny, he said, "You have to learn how to turn gmail off and live in it, in my case I can turn all of email off." Don't live that way." Try ignoring your email." .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Listen to Learn : How can you hear what someone is really trying to tell you. Reflect & Reconnect : How to take the right action based on what you’ve learned. In regards to #5 above, Wetzler explains that "the hardest part of learning from others isn't asking the questions, or evening, listening to the answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. Some people find mini-meditation to do the same – and there are lots of apps like Headspace that can help teach you to do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Here’s what I learned: How did you get started working in the nonprofit sector? Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. I also reflect regularly through meditation and other mindfulness practices on what are my gifts and talents and how I’ve been called to use them to be of service.

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Life Arts Digital Work 74

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history. One of the reasons I fell in love with museums is because they support learning that is distinctly un-school-like. The more we teach and judge based on laws, the less students and graduates will try to break them.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about. You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. I’m teaching a graduate course at University of Washington right now on social technology and museums. Impersonal guards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn. As I see it, staying informed and reflection are part of my job. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Understand the science of learning and put it to work. Brain science and the science of learning are dynamic fields with constant advances being made. If you’re training adults (most of us are), you’ll need to understand adult learning. Learn why you need to get participants moving around during a training.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We’re interested in what you guys want to learn today. . So our topic, again, is how to engage donors better by anticipating their questions, learning to think like donors, and also how to ask better, more probing questions. The theory is simple here, you learn it in 60 seconds. oh, good here they are. Nice to see them.

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Money Question Raise Video 110

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

You can learn more about us. I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. You’d be like, “We loved it, but we didn’t learn a thing.” ” So let’s get some learning in now. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. Oh, my gosh.

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Management Work Video Slides 93

Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

While conversations around digital storytelling often focus on images and video, Will Coley of Aquifer Media reminded us that sound is essential in his session What Public Radio Can Teach Nonprofits about Effective Storytelling. Nuts and Bolts. Danny started with why video matters (4 billion hours spent on YouTube each month!)

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