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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. Your design is not just about content. That’s where a lot of trainers fall short.

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How to Design an Effective Nonprofit Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it turns out that applying the relevant elements from the DLP into retreat designs is an effective way to engage staff and ensure that relevant content “sticks.”. The Priming phase of the DLP sets the stage for learning before the event takes place through two processes: pre-assessment and pre-work.

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20 reasons for associations to love Salesforce

Nimble AMS

Salesforce offers myTrailhead, which allows you to customize the Salesforce Trailhead learning environment with your own content and branding. Lots of events offering learning opportunities. Salesforce offers Chatter functionality, which facilitates collaboration among your staff. Fun and easy product training.

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Election Day – Using Social Media Campaign Methods to Enhance Learning Programs

Gyrus

Use learnings as a stepping stone and initialize discussion based on learning topics via private social media channels (Protected Groups). This will not only further facilitate learner engagement but also bring attention to learning efforts.

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Guideline For Finding Your Organization’s Ideal LMS

Gyrus

What sort of content are the learners expecting? Answering these questions will help you shape the correct direction for your organization to meet all of its learning and development needs. In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training.

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Your Ideal LMS. Have Your Cake And Eat It Too.

Gyrus

What sort of content are the learners expecting? Answering these questions will help you shape the correct direction for your organization to meet all of its learning and development needs. In this search for information, it is vital to focus on the objectives you want to achieve by the e-learning courses or training.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning.

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