Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. It is important to have the conversation to unpack it. What I have done in many workshops, is the spectragram where people line up according how their experience with social media tools and we have a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. One thing led to another and I designed a social media lab for arts organizations. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I said yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Also, please try not to make them boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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AUGUST 12, 2021

Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners. Format conversion tools. Some course authoring software platforms have built-in format conversion tools to help with this effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Reflections coming soon!) His reflections below. One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. So she recommends and I think she’s right that at least one person in each team has to be at least a bit conversant with Web 2.0. (no, Tech Fellows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Engage audiences in conversation about the campaign theme.

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