Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. 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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. So, I've started to reach out to colleagues and started with some in education (both secondary and higher ed) to learn more. Been pausing over the purist definition slide from his slide deck.

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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

They are also working on software that uses this approach in the classroom and takes the passivity and lectures out of classroom instruction. In the 60 minutes piece, it is referred to the flipped classroom or peer instruction a mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

. Yesterday at the Packard Foundation, as part of a series of "deeper dives" to learn about networks and social media, Eugene Eric Kim of Blue Oxen Associates gave a talk about "Networks in an International Context." . Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. It totally changed the atmosphere of the room, and people were ready to learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Needless to say, I learned a lot and wanted to capture some of it here as well as the Tweet transcript.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. the way the best museums do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. I later became a member of the GIGI group ( girl geeks of the World Cafe ).

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

So, you have decided you need a tool for collaboration or content management. Below I discuss some adoption strategies that you should consider if you plan to launch a collaborative platform or content management system. Every collaboration or content management site needs one. Support Users in Learning the System.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. Where do you get the time to put some of what you've learned into practice? Over the Shoulder Learning on Steroids: Social Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Mary did a fabulous job!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 11, 2023

A learning management system—or an “LMS” for short—is a software resource or application that provides communication tools, academic course management, and a user interface for students, educators, and administrators in K–12 schools and higher education institutions.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. What can we learn from nonprofits who have been early adopters reaching out to and engaging Gen Z donors? Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. Citizen instructional mediamaker? online facilitator?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. But walking with colleagues can boost relationship-building and collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. Collaborating.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

This week, I met New York choreographer Dean Moss and learned about his fascinating contemporary dance piece Kisaeng Becomes You (2009). She was given lots of instruction and support as she was costumed and asked to help present a slow dance. They repeated their actions and instructions over and over. Sound scary?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Bridged groups are useful if you want people to collaborate on a more inclusive vision of the future. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Designing a new program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering services to members and clients; and from seeking public support and the ear of decision-makers, to collaborating with other organizations in projects of common interest. collaboration. instructional video. Best practices. case studies. Conferences.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus . Strong project management skills including consulting, time management, collaboration, communication. Knowledge of instructional design best practices such as evidence based online delivery models (e.g., Trailhead, Partner University) .

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Instead, they will be attending from their own homes on their personal computers or in a collaborative workspace. . Think carefully about what your target audience wants or needs to learn, consider the obstacles or challenges they face, and put together a program that delves into these ideas. . Think of attendees as collaborators.

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