Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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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

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. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I have different color codes for different types of work that also correspond with color codes on my google calendar and my hard drive/google drive files. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn. How about you? Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. This also helped us create a bridge from the first to the second day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The five different styles included: Educator, Creator, Visionary, Organizer, and Creator. Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. They also had a chance to interact with peers with different styles to learn more.

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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. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’ve caught the news at any point in the last year, you know that the trending topics are different than anything we’ve encountered before. Think of it this way: the training that Doctors without Borders members undergo is significantly different than that of, say, the local Boys and Girls Club. Evolutions in Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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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. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. How to think like a social instructional designer. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. One of my favorites was this terrific warm up from John Kenyon to help you when you are about to present. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. ” This helped shift the energy and energize. I had different energizers planned for after lunch on each of the training days.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

They are both incredibly talented, attempting to improve themselves, and they just need help realizing their full potential; in order to develop the necessary skills to climb up all the way to the next level. That is where coaching comes in. Your great learning program could be even greater with just a little coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. If two minds are better than one, what about 100? The wiki and our hashtag helps bring in other people into our learning and enrich it. How do you do it?

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

If implemented, that will make a big difference. It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. We like that idea, and we agree that you need to provide many different pricing models. We are all for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. It helps people process complex thoughts. It is basically a pause.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Either way, we’d guess it looked quite different from the eLearning assessment types we’re going to discuss today. When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

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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MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. For example: Members living in different geographical areas and as a result, different time zones. Complicated Accreditation Reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1) Comfort Levels. Some advice from Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice. Being in one space with over 50 people all coming together to learn about why/how they can each use different social media strategies to help their organization." "The

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cloud for Good is seeking a director of Last Mile Training (LMT) to develop and deliver Salesforce training programs for several different roles. . Passion for workforce development and a genuine interest in helping job seekers . Instructional design, curriculum development, and teaching experience is a plus .

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

The choice between these two options depends on a few different factors. In that scenario, you’d want to bring in an eLearning expert to help with the project. Some course authoring software platforms have built-in format conversion tools to help with this effort. The level of support that the software provider offers.

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