Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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MARCH 15, 2024

Setting Clear Goals Usually, the mission statement will reveal the overall goal for an organization, but are often overreaching by design, possibly broader than you need for setting data-driven goals and objectives. For instance, a well-connected, extroverted donor might like the opportunity to sponsor a lecture series or a group tour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Gives you empathy for designing your own syllabus and course. The course has been delivered offline at Stanford to students and is teaching students about giving. The lectures are brief, fun conversations in the forums, and worksheets are great. Training Design' See you at the Giving 2.0

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

it makes sense that, finally, designers would begin to look past the frivolous and fun aspects of their gear and towards truly worthwhile applications. The post Back to School: New Tech for the Classroom of the Future appeared first on Byte Technology’s Nonprofit Web Design Insights Blog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 23, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division. Recognize warning signs. Proactively create opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Treat your Email like a conversation rather than a lecture. Vectors designed by Freepik. But the truth is, this gratitude should be the first thing you discuss in your email, setting the tone for the rest of the appeal. Your appeal should focus more on your supporter than you. Let us know in the comments!

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

They used technology designed for higher education along with personal interactions. He attended various alum lectures and could see the impact that donors made at the university. She felt that she had a team behind her not only coaching her, but also collaborating for her success.

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MARCH 1, 2023

100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” This year, the theme has been designated as “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.” Since 1995, presidents have issued annual proclamations declaring March as Women’s History Month and celebrating the contributions women have made to the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? Content Delivery Is Not Learning. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. The questions were keyed to when the content was explained.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. 2) Philanthropy and Social Innovation : This course is designed to educate young, aspiring social entrepreneurs in how to create new models, programs and organizations. 3) Giving 2.0: 3) Giving 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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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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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. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2006

I've been doing a Webinar for N-TEN called "Designing Effective Technology Learning Experiences" -- basically about how to make technology trainings more interactive -- which includes designing participant interactivity - either in small groups as well as blended into presentation/lecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? ” Now that’s a design challenge – how to deliver an interactive session that can go in-depth with 80-100 participants in 90 minutes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I also expanded my practice to designing and facilitating internal meetings for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including activating a culture of wellbeing and innovation labs. Watch for more from us in 2019 about the age of automation and its implications for the sector.

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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. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction. This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I have created the design and delivered an intensive Train the Trainers session in Beirut almost a year ago for master trainers and their teams from Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. I also developed the curriculum for the 15 workshops that were localized and delivered by the in-country trainers to over 220 NGOs over 9-month period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.” Energizers are typically done right after lunch and during mid-afternoon breaks, when energy tends to be low, but they can be done any time.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

For example, during the pandemic and while the campus remains closed, AMFA offers online education and arts programming so a key feature of their new website was a comprehensive calendar integration platform to highlight virtual lectures, live performances and art classes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

During the graduate course in evaluation and research methods, I gave an interactive lecture and lead discussion. Training Design' The key is to not feel frustrated, and pick it up again. We covered the themes of data informed organizations , best practices in learning from your data , and failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

" The slide show shares the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). " Justin Perkins pointed out one flaw with Causes design: it asks a person to make a donation before educating or cultivating them. " Carie Lewis added, "It's all about the cool factor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project. You can find out more and register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Convene: This is bringing together small groups of stakeholders to give you input and feedback – from designing programs to planning. Don’t wait for people to ask – share it through social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I came across the term “Learning Analytics” in an NPR story about the effectiveness of college lectures and ways to make learning more interactive. There are different definitions. Learning Analytics. This gives me some more insight about how to make teaching this concept more accessible. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2022

You could host a lecture on a popular topic in mental health or even host a Q&A session answering questions from the audience. The best part is that video editing is no longer a task that only someone with a design degree can pull off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. The room had theatre in the round seating with couches and tables that were cafe like. My slides are here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2019

. — Andrea Ledesma (@am_ledesma) December 2, 2019 reducing/eliminating cost of admission and refocusing as a public space/hangout space/event space — Jeremy aka General in the WMATA Posting Wars (@porchrates) December 4, 2019 Our physical transformation was also obvious in our galleries: More interesting exhibit design!

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