Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Your employees have different learning styles – typically falling within these three categories: Visual Learners Auditory Learners Tactile Learners Therefore, it’s best to incorporate all three styles when teaching something new, according to the book, Customer Service Management Training 101. On-the-job training works best for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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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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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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TechImpact

DECEMBER 24, 2013

In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. It is a free, immersive IT training program provided to vulnerable young adults who identify as high-achieving high school graduates between the ages of 18 and 24 who have not been to college.

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Gyrus

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This blog post was originally published on 12/11/2021. During the pandemic, these local education leaders have been critical in identifying and launching initiatives that not only assist girls in continuing their education during school closures, but also help them get back in the classroom when schools reopen.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

They will tweet constantly and upload their photo-led blog stories every day between May 11-22. You can ask members of the community questions via blog posts, @replies on Twitter and via email (zambia@learnasone.org). Follow the blog updates or the Flickr photo stream. Follow along and connect with the community!

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. percent of the U.S.

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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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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. The term Peeragogy came fluttering through my network, like a butterfly, and it caught my interest. It resonated. What struck me was his authentic co-learning process with his students.

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Gyrus

APRIL 26, 2016

Mobile training not only offers learning on-the-go, but also allows learners to gain an instant access to information whenever and wherever they need it. However, there is often a misunderstanding on mobile learning capabilities and its usage for corporate learning and training. as mobile learning tools. Mobile Learning is Not Secure.

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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. Rachel Muir, CFRE, is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and speaker at Cause Camp 2016.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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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. So the training needs to be a collaboration.

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Gyrus

APRIL 19, 2016

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in KM World in April 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission. In the digital world, one can turn to a blog, Wikipedia, social media platforms, online knowledge forums, videos, etc. and get informed on just anything. The information available is abundant.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption.

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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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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Scheduling that same instructor, the classroom, the projector he/she is using, a laser pointer and a shared laptop… priceless. The ability to generate content directly into the LMS not only exists but is being highlighted on this blog post. An API specifies how software components should interact.” Assessment Creation Tool.

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Forj

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Web Courseworks, a leader in innovative learning management systems and virtual event technology, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group silver award for excellence in the Best Advance in Technology for Virtual-Classroom or Conferencing Technology category. About Brandon Hall Group, Inc.

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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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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

It used to be that in order to obtain compliance training, employees would have to undergo grueling round table instructor-led training (ILT). Though it may seem that a lot can be achieved just through a classroom session and/or an E-Learning, there is still the possibility of expanding the reach of the provided learning.

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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. We don’t have a lot of time and it will come after a long day, so have been thinking of ways to do a train the trainers in an efficient way. Illustration by Beth Kanter. Begin Connections.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

This guidance comes from almost a year and a half of hosting DEI experts and equitable fundraising practitioners on the Bloomerang blog and webinar series. Even after going through training themselves, your leadership probably isn’t qualified to teach the rest of the staff. Add a DEI training element to your staff onboarding process.

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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. We had similar spread for those having experience designing and delivering trainings. I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. Know of any?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. In a highly personal and reflective manner, Mulligan, with Greg Shaw , details through stories, examples, insights and frameworks, how business leaders can prepare for and respond to technological disruption.

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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. We walked into our classrooms to find that all of. from where to continue our computer training and work force development. Staff of this org are friends of mine (and neighbors).any Our server.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

In the book, the author explains that less than six percent of a principal's time is spent on observing classrooms, coaching teachers to make them better, leading or planning professional training for teachers, using data to drive instruction, and evaluating teachers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2008

LauraatNing was listening and just pinged me to point me over to this blog post about nonprofits that are using Ning with their donors and supporters. Take for example the Community Media Workshop's Ning Site which is used to complement their face-to-face training session. We then invite participants to join. Why did you choose Ning?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This post was authored by Lori Harnick, General Manager of Microsoft Citizenship & Public Affairs, and originally appeared on the Microsoft Corporate Citizenship Blog. environments, and a lack of technical or vocational training to open new. enhancing skills training, unleashing future innovators by providing. opportunities.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Naples, Florida: Boost Your Nonprofit's Blogging Strategy. Third Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for St. Third Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for Kibiribiri Primary School. Third Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for St. Third Term Solar Mobile Computer Training Meetup for St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Throughout the day, well be living blogging sessions from MCON13 , a conference to help leaders engage the Millennial generation. 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.

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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. It was delivered in two sessions.

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