Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

This blog post provides additional recommendations for creating key metrics that align with your strategic objectives. You might use inconsistent content or course tagging, or team members might use a variety of names for one type of offering. Focus on what matters to operational outcomes (ex. credits offered).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” When I’m training other trainers, I often get asked “What books should I read?”

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

The most popular model today is called a Large Language Model (LLM) , which is trained on massive text datasets. Keep in mind that the more specific the model gets and the more specific the training dataset, the better outcomes you’ll find. LLMs are meant to produce conversational human language responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Note from Beth: Last January, I put together a train the trainers session for nonprofit trainers. You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. 8 Reasons Why Bad Trainings Happen to Good Nonprofits by Salsa Labs. Reign in your facts, figures and stories.

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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! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 16, 2024

Read our blog to learn helpful tips to get started using AI in your association’s member marketing. AI-optimized member onboarding content. Continuing education opportunities More association members are looking to professional organizations for education and training. What is member marketing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? I know for myself that I don’t learn, retain, or apply when content is endlessly shared – even from expert – without a break. Shorter is better than longer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. 3) Tweet content that inspires engagement. To get engagement on Twitter, you need to tweet the right kind of content. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

How to Gamify Compliance Training. In September we explored ways in which to make compliance training more fun, with our article entitled “ Fun Compliance Training – A Real Phrase ” However, we did not fully dive into the depths of manners in which such fun could be accomplished. Bite-sized pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. You can find all resources materials here. Does #14ntc give an award for best slides?

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Conduct staff training. Automated marketing: With AI-powered marketing automation tools, you can automate routine activities, such as email campaigns, social media scheduling, and content creation, to save your team time during the busy fundraising season. Conduct staff training. Encourage experimentation. Let’s dive in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: [link]. I asked fans on Facebook, “Does your organization use an editorial calendar and “editorial meetings” to get ideas and manage content for a content strategy?” ” What are the metrics for measuring your content?

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Seminars, trainings, and webinars Education is so important when it comes to generating advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

During the summer, I’ve been designing workshops based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Emerging Leaders Playbook. A great training always start with a great opening or icebreaker. An icebreaker for a staff training might be different from one that you use at a conference session where people don’t already know each other.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. Through machine learning, it uses pattern recognition to interpret user prompts and generate content matching these prompts. How can generative AI help grantwriters?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery guest post by Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Fun Compliance Training – A Real Phrase. In life, there are few certainties, one in particular which you will be exposed and subjected to is compliance training. Compliance training as we know it is meant to be a boring and highly regimented experience. The same concepts can be applied to Compliance Training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 29, 2023

Based on past member behavior, your association can personalize the member experience by offering career insights, customized association events, learning materials, and learning content. Does your organization offer technology training? However, only 47% of employees report receiving any data training from their employer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Participants at FFL Training Doing Content Strategy Brainstorm. Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I will be in the USA from doing a training in Tunisia for NGOs and trainers who will deliver training to women entrepreneurs as part of the WES program and also improve their NGO’s use of social media.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

Consider: Repurposing existing content and bundling it in a way that appeals to them. Establishing a virtual conference with content different from your in-person event. They may want to deliver content to this audience and be happy to pay for the right to do so. Use it to create content or campaigns that are relevant to them.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Editor's Note: This blog was originally published in eLearning Industry in May 2016, and has been reproduced here with permission. Technology has impacted almost every aspect of our lives and training & development is no exception. It’s estimated that the mobile learning industry will grow to over $37 billion by 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success. Content – This person takes the resulting data and tailors your association’s content, events, and other activities to appeal to the right audiences.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. In order to be more efficient and effective, training should be organized and should offer guidance on the types of things your association is looking to do with AI tools.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

After you’ve created the group, you can move into training and engaging your volunteers. . Train your volunteers. Once you’ve assembled your DEI volunteer group, it’s wise to train and orient all members about your association to ensure they understand their role. Recruit a diverse group of members. ? Learn more.

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Candid

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Here we share how we turned an expensive print piece into a simple, online PDF with multi-purpose content to maximize the return on our investment. We started to consider what changes we could make to speed up the process, cut staff time and costs, and make better use of the content. Do you have to produce an annual report?

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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.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Design Labs.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Our goal for these videos has always been to reach younger audiences and those with a preference for video content, as well as captivate our existing followers on social media. But they also bring attention to our entire social platform’s content. This way, you only need to prepare once to film a few pieces of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time!

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This refers to the feelings, attitudes, and opinions of the individuals participating in your programs, courses, or training. Example: Through a learner sentiment analysis, one association discovered that one of their courses consistently received low ratings due to challenging content delivery. What are learners missing from you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. If you design and deliver training for professional development, what technologies are impacting your practice?

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Power of Free Learnings – Non-SCORM Content. In the modern world, we have access to a wide-variety of free content. Here is a quick guideline in evaluating the free content available to you, and how to augment your learning program with what you find. Evaluate Current Content. Evaluating the Free Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But who knew that they could be useful as part of your content strategy or for content curation? So, here’s my list about making lists. List of Content Ideas. A list of questions : These are typically called “FAQ” or frequently asked questions and are a standard category of web site content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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