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

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.).

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

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. 2.) Exercise Task: Having the ability to break into small groups, provides an opportunity to use Peer Assist or After Action Review models. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs!

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

” Here’s what I learned: There are hundreds and thousands of Facebook apps designed to add a specific functionality to your brand page to help customize it. Here’s some easy install instructions. Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that.

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Facebook Marketing Poll YouTube 101

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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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Our session was documented in many different ways as described below. Knowledge capture makes it easy to share the learning with others in the community, but as a session designer and speaker – you can also use it to do an “ after action ” review to help you review the delivery and the content.

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Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95