Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

Great conference @meansandrew and see at next years #DoGoodData2015 may the force be with us all @kanter pic.twitter.com/7pXQWjyyXH. I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. Mark of a good conference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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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. Reflection. 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

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. PopTech is an.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Formative Evaluation.

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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. We'll have check-in conference calls as well as use the wiki and hashtag to provide just-in-time learning. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Instructional Design. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Training. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face! This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I also want to reflect a bit on the use of social media and mobile technology to support nonprofit professional learning at conferences. How are you integrating social media or mobile technology into professional development events and conferences that promote real time learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Don’t you hate when you get out of a conference session feeling all pumped about an idea, but by the time you get back to your workplace you realize that you have no idea how to do the thing you were so excited about? Start with me Sunday, March 25 th , at the Learning Solutions 2018 conference in Orlando, Florida !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. Tips Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. Happy New Year ! How about you? I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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JULY 24, 2021

Faith-based giving can be deeply reflective of a person’s belief. For the first few months of the pandemic, I was instructing parishes how to create ways to give online and how to promote online giving.”. Howat said this offers a different layer of complexity than in other nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011. On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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JUNE 6, 2014

Before joining the team at NOI, she taught full-time at Howard University where she developed a curriculum that integrates new media and digital platforms into writing instruction. Based in Washington, D.C., Bridget is the Digital Training Manager at the New Organizing Institute (NOI). You can follow her on Twitter at @BridgetMarie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha.

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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. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas. Think of all of the great webinars, conferences, workshops, and social media forums around these topics. My Circles required a financial investment to reflect my time as planner and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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. 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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Reflective Practice. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Here’s some reflections: 1.) Small Group Composition: How you select people to put into small groups may or may not be important to a small group exercise. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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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. " My Web2.0

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are many benefits to this move but running a successful virtual conference requires more than just an understanding of video conferencing tools. . If this is your first time hosting a virtual conference or any virtual event for that matter, the process may seem daunting. A virtual audience will not have to do any of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Last night's event brought back memories for me - of what it was like 13 years ago doing demonstrations at nonprofit conferences about online communities for arts organizations. Here's a few reflections from people in the room. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. This reminded me of Margaret Wheatley, who was the keynote speaker at a conference in Alaska where I was doing a workshop a few years ago. Not great as many of reflected. Of course, we messed up.

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