Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is keeping nonprofits engaged. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going.

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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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Social media is a minimally intrusive way to reach many people who can choose to tune in and share your message. Collaborating with internal teams can lead to fresh ideas and smooth execution for the day itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

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. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Ask Good Questions.

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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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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. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Learning Networks Are Built With People and Reciprocity. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it. Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We learned about the country’s history, political complexity, religions, people, and ancient and contemporary life. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

Live documents have made an appearance in some realms allowing for people to not only share an assignment, but make changes on the same verbiage from across the world, while interacting, providing positive feedback, and communicating department intentions across a variety of mediums. Gamification. But, where can they go from here?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. She did it anyway.)

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The answer may seem obvious, but that’s not readily apparent in the eLearning we design. In the past, companies needed people who could crunch the numbers with a calculator to get the right answer or who had memorized how to assemble parts. Collaboration. Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills.

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The answer may seem obvious, but that’s not readily apparent in the eLearning we design. In the past, companies needed people who could crunch the numbers with a calculator to get the right answer or who had memorized how to assemble parts. Collaboration. Instead, there is demand for what have been called 21 st century skills.

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