Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Discussions about best practices, strategic planning sessions, or board development exercises can launch conversations about how and when to evaluate the board’s performance. But no matter how perfectly you design the instrument, answering a series of questions will not provide the level of introspection that inspires real change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Designing the meeting so it is effective and encourages team-building can be tricky. How to Design an Effective Staff Retreat: A Lesson from Life – Guest Post by Karen Axelson from ETR. The planners of this event offered some valuable lessons for any organization on how to design effective and engaging retreats.

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Design Lesson Effective Life 90

.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you make kindness official by designating it as an organizational value, you can weave the threads of consideration throughout your team. Allocate time off for exercise. It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Kindness is a foundation for equity and inclusion.

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Giving Alexa Demonstration Fun 448

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Discoveries are essentially risk mitigation exercises, and they should be a separate contract from the build phase whenever possible.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 2, 2024

So many of us resolve to exercise more, be kinder, spend more time with family, and so on. It’s the New Year and all of us are bubbling over with resolutions. What about our websites? Shouldn’t we have resolutions for making our websites, email, and social media accounts better?

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Websites Analytics Podcast Map 272

Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

As designers at Media Cause—like all designers everywhere—we are constantly challenging what has been done in the past in an effort to create something new or improve on what exists. . I was hearing a bunch of new buzzwords being thrown around on AIGA’s Eye on Design blog.

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Exercise Classes Brain Design 52

Candid

MARCH 28, 2023

When done well, UX research allows us to design in anticipation of our users’ needs rather than reactively correcting issues as they emerge. For example, one customer mentioned that they can review up to 500 funder profile pages in one day using Candid’s Foundation Directory , a time-consuming and tedious exercise!

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Profile Product Research Exercise 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! This requires a lot of more thinking through the design and technical practice to run smoothly.). Think Beyond Presenters.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers.

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Build Map Platform Integration 59

Care2

JULY 11, 2011

But with the right web design planning tips, your organization will be on it’s way to building a website that gives your audiences exactly what they need. While your website can certainly accomplish more then three things, this exercise will force you to prioritize what your top three goals are in your website design or redesign.

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Design Web Tips Survey 76

.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. So, this exercise is also a marketing tool. My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. They will be representing your organization. First, let’s make this distinction.

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YouTube Industry Leadership Podcast 221

Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Composable Architecture: A Catalyst for Nonprofit Innovation Speaker(s): Jenn Johnson, Managing Director of Client Services; Andrew Howell, Technology Manager What if you could use the best parts of your favorite CMS alongside the most innovative interactive design technologies? Vote for this session! That’s one puzzle. Vote for this session!

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Voice Social Media Portland Technique 72

.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

But an endless Zoom call where talking heads deliver reams of forgettable information is not an introduction designed to whet appetites. Exercises like the Myers Briggs Type Indicator will deliver a deeper level of insight. Tell a Compelling Story. Formal orientation programs are great. To bring the facts to life, tell stories.

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Mentoring Director Associations Professional 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The team’s first planning session should be one of learning about each’s other trade craft versus diving into the design of the session. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2015

A part of my practice is around network design and facilitation and one of my most respected colleagues in this area is Eugene Eric Kim. So, for this conversation about the art and craft of network design and weaving, he started us off with a ritual he learned from another network designer, Curtis Ogden.

Network 50

Network Design Change Facilitation 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Following through on the possible outcomes , complete with likely predictions and acknowledgement of whether they’re negative or positive (or design yourself a decision tree, that lays out every possible consequence visually). Evaluating your decision , an after-the-fact exercise that engages a conscious inventory of the lessons learned.

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Exercise Lesson Evaluation Picture 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

Activities 105

Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

Try to detach by exercising, socializing, meditating, or spending time on a hobby that requires focused attention (e.g., Use apps designed to block distractions and help you focus to avoid time shredding. Mentally put your work down. reading, cooking, playing sudoku). It may take some practice to see what strategy works best for you.

Life 105

Life Work Calendar Attention 105

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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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Never underestimate the value of services that are designed to ensure you’re set for success from the moment you purchase your software and beyond. Gaining alignment across multiple groups is an exercise in communication. 3 Fundraising Software Essentials to Consider. Make sure everyone is in the know.

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Software Fundraising Training Train 309

The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 2, 2024

So many of us resolve to exercise more, be kinder, spend more time with family, and so on. It’s the New Year and all of us are bubbling over with resolutions. What about our websites? Shouldn’t we have resolutions for making our websites, email, and social media accounts better?

Websites 130

Websites Analytics Podcast Map 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

” This exercise will show you how useful this tool is for quickly generating information you can build upon. Additionally, these platforms offer tons of templates designed to help you tackle all sorts of writing tasks. To understand just how user friendly they are, the best thing to do is to see for yourself!

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Content Calendar Language Social Media 352

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. Designing Zoom Breakout Room Activities . Which one you select depends on the activity and group dynamics.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Following through on the possible outcomes , complete with likely predictions and acknowledgement of whether they’re negative or positive (or design yourself a decision tree, that lays out every possible consequence visually). Evaluating your decision , an after-the-fact exercise that engages a conscious inventory of the lessons learned.

Exercise 52

Exercise Lesson Evaluation Picture 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

Professional 101

Professional Network Learning Lebanon 101

NTEN

AUGUST 14, 2014

Progress made over the past six weeks: Card sorting exercise at staff retreat. It was good for everyone to do this exercise in order to see and analyze the results, but also to refine the list of cards and approach when opening the exercise to the general community. Community card sorting exercise. Happy August!

Case Study 82

Case Study Site Studies NTEN 82

NetWits

AUGUST 21, 2012

This blog post explains how strategic web design can reduce the noise on your website and help your users accomplish the most important tasks to meet you nonprofit’s goals. From the Audience Analysis exercise you will have a long list of user tasks for each audience segment. Wireframes allow us to create this hierarchy in web design.

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Action Websites Design Voice 205

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Following through on the possible outcomes , complete with likely predictions and acknowledgement of whether they’re negative or positive (or design yourself a decision tree, that lays out every possible consequence visually). Evaluating your decision , an after-the-fact exercise that engages a conscious inventory of the lessons learned.

Exercise 52

Exercise Lesson Evaluation Picture 52

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. Use Learning Theory.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. Despite this due diligence, sometimes you show up early to discover the room set up is not what you asked for. What to do?

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Learning 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. Tips Training Design'

Facilitation 101

Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. Opening Exercise. Just A Little Content To Get Started . You’ll find those blog posts here.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76