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. Flip It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? 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. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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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. Whether the model your foundation is using to help its grantees is a one-day master class or extended program, in the end, success is about having participants apply what they’ve learned and make these new skills an organizational habit. Training Design'

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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

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. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Effective fundraising can help your program put on better shows, train students more effectively, and ultimately boost its reputation for high-quality instruction in the arts. There are so many vital activities that keep your program afloat aside from fundraising, from scheduling classes to holding auditions to supporting students.

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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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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We pivoted from in-person body alignment corrections and preparing for national tours and performances to ensuring all educators and students had the appropriate platforms and technology to just attend one class. Strategy: communication, program delivery, training, and COVID-19 planning for virtual and in-person studio classes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Content is available in Arabic, French, and English, and it adheres to Lebanese school curriculum to ensure students don’t get behind when in-person classes resume. Nayla’s organization, Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL), will also develop teacher training courses on the platform aimed at strengthening remote instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. I also did a far amount of virtual training, including developing a new workshop on virtual facilitation and I also launched a series of micro-learning courses with Nonprofit Ready on personal productivity and organization culture topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions. In Hartford, I had challenge of a large number of participants, a “master class” type set up, and but a room and time constraints that limited the amount of full group interactive exercises. Flash polls.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2010

The partner we chose, Worth Trust employs people with disabilities, in addition they conduct life skills classes and provide training. For the employees English is not their first language and for some it was not the medium of instruction. However that did not stop them from trying, learning and working hard.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

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. If John in Marketing learns best via Instructor-Lead training, and Suzy in Document Control works best in an impersonal self-instructed pathway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

They have to be in class during the day, dividing homework time between short study halls or evenings and weekends. I have been writing books and giving seminars and trainings for decades, and over that time I have seen first-hand how transformational these simple tools can be. But the original book just isn’t a good fit for a student.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 23, 2018

For full instructions on how to improve your organization's deliverability rate, download the full study below! Commitment to continuous education and trainings with authorities in the deliverability community to maintain the highest awareness of trends and best practices. The EveryAction Deliverability Difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

They have to be in class during the day, dividing homework time between short study halls or evenings and weekends. I have been writing books and giving seminars and trainings for decades, and over that time I have seen first-hand how transformational these simple tools can be. But the original book just isn’t a good fit for a student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. My Three Words.

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Gyrus

JUNE 16, 2016

When I was a child, I had difficulty with a math class, and an obsession with baseball cards; my father, saw this as an opportunity. This particular environment best motivates people who are enamored with structure and offers a quality foundational learning approach when compared to the training industry. Leaderboards.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

They have to be in class during the day, dividing homework time between short study halls or evenings and weekends. I have been writing books and giving seminars and trainings for decades, and over that time I have seen first-hand how transformational these simple tools can be. But the original book just isn’t a good fit for a student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The day ended with my favorite experience – a tour of arts classes in progress during which I got to peek into a theater directing class and ballet class, as well as choir, band, and orchestra rehearsals. Check out this video from Know99 TV to get a peek into what my day was like! Like this article? Get another!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

When Training Online, Interact Frequently. " Games for Library Instruction. In this presentation, Instructional Services Librarian Mary Snyder. library instruction. The first, Secret Agents in the Library , is a standard one-shot library instruction class put into game format.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. The program offers Seattle residents with a variety of recreational and lifelong learning programs, classes, and activities. We worked with Young Pham, ARC’s technology support person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. PopTech is an.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

sign up) to ask for donations (see our “No Money, More Problems” webinar for how), or host fundraising-specific events like multi-day virtual galas with different speakers, trainings on best virtual fundraising practices and webinars with donor special guests. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff. Urgent issues. Urgent issues.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

Amber's specialty is instruction, and though she's moved on from driving the mobile lab, she shared some great insights with us about creating instructional and informational videos.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

According to the report, 99% of public libraries offer access to technology, and 90% report offering some sort of digital literacy skills training. For example, the Pueblo City-County Library in Pueblo, CO offers classes on how to use iPads and e-readers. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training. I couldn't help but smile too.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 31, 2014

When you’re ready to create the contact/sign-up form, here is some information you think about asking for: • Name / contact info. • Reason for seeking volunteer work. • Physical limitations. • Education/special training. • Paid work experience. • Volunteer experience. • Personal interests/hobbies. • Date/time available to volunteer.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 31, 2014

When you’re ready to create the contact/sign-up form, here is some information you think about asking for: • Name / contact info. • Reason for seeking volunteer work. • Physical limitations. • Education/special training. • Paid work experience. • Volunteer experience. • Personal interests/hobbies. • Date/time available to volunteer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. In fact, Woo confides that she had to drop out of her programming class in school. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Systems are capable of not only organizing Instructor-Led Training (ILT), but they now house E-Learnings, Gamification, Mobile Learnings, and alternative learning objects. This is leading to new manners of participation, such as learning, the introduction of microlearning modules, and self-guided instruction.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Through the program, the native San Franciscan learned valuable business skills, received tech training, and made job connections. Public libraries are also working diligently to close both the digital and the opportunity gap: from giving free classes on resume-building to providing free access to technology. More Resources.

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