Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

How about you? In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment? The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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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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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Similar to the funders in my previous post on education , the organizations listed below focus their efforts on activities inside and outside of the classroom. Visit Grantli to learn more about how I do my grant research and writing and how your organization can find even more funders and funding opportunities. The Awesome Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

How about you? Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. It was always peer learning – I’d share about the technology and they’d teach me about their work.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Next, he asks the students to turn to the person sitting next to them and talk about the question.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 29, 2016

She is Vice President of Training at Pursuant where she transforms individuals into confident, successful fundraisers through classroom, custom and online training. Almost every organization I train is frustrated with their board. Take on a Project to Increase Community Awareness about the Organization.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

My good friend Adriano Pianesi , the former trainer at Members Only Software, has taken the bull by the horns and announced the creation of his own training consultancy, Participaction. Eventually, we found that traditional classroom training was rarely the solution. It's easy to teach someone how to issue an invoice.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

If you’re new to the topic and how it affects the social good sector or simply have your interest sparked, we highly recommend doing some additional research about DEI for nonprofits. Allow leadership to learn about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Add a DEI training element to your staff onboarding process.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

This morning we talked about creating clusters of innovation, bringing in various communities, etc. But before we got there, we talked abit about the problem. I want to frame first the opportunity: we often talk about the competitiveness frame in education, that the US used to be number one, and now we are “falling behind.&#

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. Why does this matter to those of us in the Training, Learning, and Development field? Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

This one's about Amber Slaven, a librarian who got her start at Bellevue Library with a pretty great gig: driving a Winnebago outfitted as a mobile computer classroom. She also managed up to 100 volunteers at a time to help teach classes in her library system and offered some tips on ensuring a smooth volunteer experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. This online community, Engage365 , is a place to network and share knowledge about how to integrate the use of social media for events.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Nicole related the experience and observations she had about millennials from five-day leadership trainings at Deloitte. Trainings need to be tailored to the learner not meet individual needs. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

A regular vehicle for feedback about the meeting. This might include a ten- to fifteen-minute mission moment, or another opportunity for the board to learn about its job. Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

All Parent Centers have the same mission: to help families of children with disabilities succeed in life, find tools and resources, and develop advocacy strategies despite the many barriers including segregated classrooms, inaccessible communities, and old cultural belief systems about disability. Fast forward to Jan.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Here are the ones we especially liked from the past year! HART for Animals.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 15, 2016

She is Vice President of Training at Pursuant where she transforms individuals into confident, successful fundraisers through classroom, custom and online training. Anne Melvin, Director of Training and Education at Harvard. Rachel Muir, CFRE, is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub. The list is long! Gail Perry.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

This morning we talked about creating clusters of innovation, bringing in various communities, etc. But before we got there, we talked a bit about the problem. I want to frame first the opportunity: we often talk about the competitiveness frame in education, that the US used to be number one, and now we are "falling behind."

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. And if you are interested in that, maybe you’re thinking about making a switch before the end of the year, check us out. So this is all about you. Hi, Steven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Tell me a little about your professional background, particularly the work you do with nonprofits? These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. I have two favorites.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Just an FYI for folks thinking about using it. Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. " There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Example - Urban Science -- example of game that teaches hwo to do urban planning. They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about. The games let us think about the process of education of being a citizen in the world in a different way. It is intended to be integrated with live training.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ? With these questions in mind, your team can optimize the venue, start assigning and training staff members, and come up with a plan to mitigate any future issues. Keep Up Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills. Cyberschool.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’re going to try to save a little bit of time for Q&A at the end, but don’t be shy about that. But don’t do that right now because I’m excited about this one.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. While the five events on this list speak are all about physical activity, hosting a themed trivia night makes for a slightly brainier night out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Let's say I want to encourage some conversations about a healthy diet.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We are here to talk about strategic planning, specifically how to involve the community and how the community will be a driver of that. We do these webinars just about every single week, usually on Thursday but tomorrow is Yom Kippur so we’re keeping that day free. Good afternoon, good morning if you’re on the West Coast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I also wanted to recruit and train the next wave of nonprofit staffers since the aging middle of the movement seemed to be moving on. I transformed CNT into NetCorps as a response to recruiting, training, and placing college kids in nonprofit orgs to lead technology based projects. I actually have about 10 boards (sheesh.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Costello: That was Stanford professor Rob Reich speaking to us in 2018 about his book, Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Jeremy Weinstein: And I’m the third member of the teaching team and the author team for this book, Jeremy Weinstein. And now, Reich is taking on Big Tech.

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