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. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

The biggest difference here is who is responsible for carrying out the strategy that the consultant provides— the consultant alongside your internal team or your team itself. Who is going to be assigned to different tasks within the new business, such as talking to subject matter experts, building content, and administering your LMS?

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

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. When creating eLearnings it is best to keep into consideration the engagement of the users throughout the whole process. Learning Styles.

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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. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab.

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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. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The sessions focused on how to combine various techniques together to achieve a specific goal and while there was a lot of “ facilitating with sticky notes ,” the overall process was larger than that. Here’s a some of what I learned about facilitating innovation and train the trainers design. Round Robin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. 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. There are usually two aspects of this.

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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. The Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. I typically draw a vertical line down my notebook page, and label each column “Content” and “Instructional Process” to capture both types of notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Social Media Strategy As Design Process.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

In College Football more than anywhere else, a coach can be the difference between five wins a season and obtaining an undefeated record. But all the content in the world can only get you so far when not paired with real life circumstances and the experiences of someone who has undergone the difficult processes in their infancy.

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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

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. ” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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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. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It was delivered in two sessions.

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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. What are the different types of online assessment? What are the different types of online assessment? Detail a process. What did the last assessment that you took look like?

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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

JANUARY 4, 2016

In addition to getting the satisfaction of checking off items completed, I also reflect on how I could improve or streamline my process. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list. Year in Review.

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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. C hallenge assumptions : “What do you think you will lose if you start sharing responsibility for the implementation process?”. It helps people process complex thoughts. It is basically a pause.

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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. I anticipate that we'll probably have some joyful funerals as move through this process, including a few of my own. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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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

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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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Discovering the specific pain points that your association faces when it comes to administering CME will reveal which features to prioritize in the LMS selection process. For example: Members living in different geographical areas and as a result, different time zones. Intuitive Interface for Users and Administrators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The biggest challenge for me was scaling with mic runners. I had mic runners stationed at different quadrants of the room who would go to the person who wanted to speak. It was hard to get people as engaged as a full group after the table discussions. Sit down with my executive director to discuss a process for a social media policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

The choice between these two options depends on a few different factors. While the learning objectives between your various courses will differ, choose a solution with functionality that applies to the majority of your courses– for example, if you generally require immersive interactive elements, you’ll want a solution that aligns with that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructional design. Exercise #1: Herding Sheep.

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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. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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Forj

DECEMBER 6, 2017

For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. Employees need to be able to tolerate failure and understand it as an inevitable part of the creative process.

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Forj

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. Employees need to be able to tolerate failure and understand it as an inevitable part of the creative process.

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