Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

This blog post was originally published on 12/11/2021. For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate. He talks about the powerful combination of social media and peer learning. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students. It resonated.

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OCTOBER 30, 2015

In the 10/23/15 blog I mentioned, “Skills allow people to succeed at their job, not training.” A skill-centric learning management system (LMS) uses skills as the fundamental building block of training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 2002, a nonprofit technology colleague introduced me to blogging and set up a blog on his server. Later, he introduced me to Typepad where I started Beth’s Blog in 2003. My blog started as my Trainer’s Learning Journal – a place to jot down practice and content related to building nonprofit technology capacity!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2017

Wake’s Tech2Empower program organizes delegations of volunteer Technology Advisors, women who work for Silicon Valley companies like Google, Salesforce, Mozilla, YouTube, GE Digital and IRC, to provide training for women’s rights and girls empowerment NGOs in developing countries and here in the United States.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

Welcome to a new ASU Lodestar Center Blog series, “Get to Know the Lodestar Center!” The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers. I am excited about manifesting the national competencies into what we do on a local level, and bringing those into our classroom space.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

As students return to school this and next month and buy their required reading books, principals, instructional coaches, department chairs, lead teachers, and teachers hopefully will have read this summer as their required reading Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book, Leverage Leadership – A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools. “As

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APRIL 27, 2022

If any of your donors are looking for some extra help at the gym or trying to develop a fitness regimen, raffle off some private training sessions with a personal trainer. For your next school fundraiser , raffle off the opportunity to grab a sweet treat with your students’ favorite teachers. Personal trainer sessions.

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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 Theme for the Year: Learning.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

Caminos, when they have a classroom, provides tech training to low-income Latina immigrants--and only for women. Students often start not knowing how to turn on a computer, and end up with assorted Microsoft Certifications, or starting design businesses. We walked into our classrooms to find that all of. Our server.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

She is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Gen Z by the Numbers. Nonprofits and Gen Z.

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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 post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

It made me think of the Berkman lecture I heard called " Legal Education in the Networked World " where there was a hot debate about whether laptops in the classroom were a good or bad thing. Are students just checking their email and tuning out or does the laptop help them think? non-profit blogs???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I followed the profile to the blog and discovered Brian Lamb's Abject Learning. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. MacArthur Foundation.

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JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

" Then he takes us to where they are now - after seven years of doing, reflection, and improving this project - he lays out the main elements of the project: Skill training. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move. The student is contributing the body of knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

While checking my links in Technorati last month, I came across a link from a blog named "Darkstar.org" and wasn't sure who it was. I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) Many of our students ended up staying in the sector after they graduated.

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