Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Conferences are a great opportunity to take workshops and observe the facilitator’s techniques. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Here’s what I learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

This past month I’ve done several workshops where I experimented with different audience online interaction tools to engage people in the room as well as a remote audience tuning in through a live video stream. These were workshops at Cause Camp , Global Giving , and the Hartford Foundation. I did not have a remote audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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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. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations. Many best wishes for happy, healthy, and abundant 2014 for you.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a look at the nonprofit innovation theater session schedule: Tues 9/20: 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM Wed 9/21: 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM Thurs 9/22: 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM For our education customers: From onboarding and class collaboration to connecting students to services faster, see how Slack can power your digital campus from anywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

I had to do it for Connected Futures: New Social Strategies and Tools for Communities of Practice workshop. Last week, I took along my N95 and used as a documentation tool - and a way to bring others from outside the class into the discussion. That's a screenshot of my desktop. It starts today!

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a look at the nonprofit innovation theater session schedule: Tues 9/20: 2:30 PM – 2:50 PM Wed 9/21: 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM Thurs 9/22: 3:00 PM – 3:20 PM For our education customers: From onboarding and class collaboration to connecting students to services faster, see how Slack can power your digital campus from anywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. My Theme for the Year: Happy, Healthy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop. 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

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 15, 2019

Flower Arrangement Class. Nothing says spring quite like flowers, so host a workshop that teaches donors the basics of floral design. Then all you’ll need is proper instruction and complimentary refreshments. Make sure the winner of the round gets a cool prize!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. 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.

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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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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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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. I felt thrown off by how much the girls talked during the class and tried to respond with humor, then seriousness, and finally, acceptance.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. Facilitate virtual mentoring, college application review, or interview skills workshop, like Mission Graduates is doing. Shortage of medical supplies and resources. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

Towards that end, we encourage you to use virtual workshop for your own devices, whether to vet exhibit ideas, create, steal, and share exhibit concepts with others, or to learn more about Second Life. I'm planning a full slate of programming, from museum tours to build classes to design reviews with the pros. I'll see you at The Tech!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

At one of the pre-conference master classes, I met 2 young women from Cairo. We organize educational talks, workshops, exhibitions and public performances. That is why we need to show them clear instructions and reward them with praises. In 2010, the conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

ACCP: The Conference features General Sessions, Learning Labs, Workshops, and The Masters’ Series. The Conference itself includes philanthropy classes ranging from individual donors, planned giving, and marketing/social media subjects. Fundraising & Grants. ACCP: The Conference. ACCP: The Conference. ACCP / Atlanta, GA / TBD.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

About the ASU Nonprofit Management Institute Founded in 1993, the ASU Nonprofit Management Institute offers 17 two-day, workshop-oriented courses for nonprofit professionals. As a nonprofit management undergraduate student at ASU, my classmates and I have also been surveyed about what we would like to learn in our classes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 I wasn't sure whether I was feeling awful from being dehydrated or from the experience of something not translating well, but this young woman approached me afterwards and asked if she could keep the cards and to use in her class. workshop, I spoke about tagging. She was a teacher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

I will be leading several workshops called " Exploring Cambodian Culture " at the Sage School (preK-8 school for gifted students) during "Cluster Week." So, for starters I'm focusing on the content, instruction, and learning tasks and have these available on my site, Cambodia4kids.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. But if learners don’t see the value in spending time on your content, it’s not going to matter whether it’s packaged into fifteen minutes once a week or a three-day workshop.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. So why don't adult workshops succeed? They are more than just workshop spaces--they are member institutions, like museums.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

an open class discussion, or a traditional front-of-room lecture from your teacher? These might include knowledge or skills tests, observations notes, evaluation forms, even anecdotal reports collected after a presentation, workshop, training session, meeting or other communications event. instructional video. E-mail marketing.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Once they’re all sold, instruct everyone to pop their own balloon and see what they’ve won. Class Fundraising Events. Recruit staff members or volunteers with special skills to lead a workshop and teach other supporters a fun skill! For example, an animal fundraiser might lead a class crafting pet toys! Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

.” Next we had a brief overview from Mary Patton Davis who works on communications for the Akilah Institute and who I had the pleasure of meeting when I was in Rwanda. Mary shared an overview of their program and their first class will graduate this June with 100% job placement. This is an important employment skill for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in.

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