Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Reflective Practice. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. I know in my own practice have made a conscious effort to go into any workshop with a goal practicing these. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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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. The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Three Ways to Think About Content. Think Beyond Presenters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. Come join us on Twitter using the hashtag #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. One might think, oh no, this is impossible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. This workshop will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS.

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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. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next? One of iconic icebreakers that Gunner has used is the “ Human SpectraGram ” that I first observed Gunner do at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2019

Today Jocelyn Wright, Instructional Designer and Jenny Toledo, Instructor at Blackbaud University, join your host Roz Lemieux, Director of Blackbaud Labs, to talk about some of the highlights from the M+R Benchmarks Report and what they mean for your organization. Social media vocabulary and best practices. Jenny Toledo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. The lead will call on the other facilitators during the discussion to add their subject matter expertise or co-facilitate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The outcome for this webinar was: To leave the webinar ready to take one small step towards improving social media measurement practice. ” I took the very simple approach of thinking of it as a data that can help you see the correlation between learning activities and learning outcomes. Please leave a comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. 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.

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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 eLearning assessment best practices can strengthen your courses? Then, we’ll wrap up with a few best practices to take your assessments to the next level. Let’s dive in. .

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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. The second session used a conferencing software that allowed the whole group to break into small group discussions on the phone line. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

This section started out with a mini-session on practical skills for self-management so your emotions don’t run away with you. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” The session had two parts.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. However, creating a formal learning business within your organization is a whole new ballgame. Choose an industry-specific consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. How To Become A Virtuoso Listener: Practice, Practice, Practice. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. 4. Make it Buzzworthy. The common tip?

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. Evolving Medical Practices. The Biggest Challenges With Healthcare Learning Management Systems. Decreased Non-Dues Revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Ever since the SXSW blog discussion " What is the distinction between social media for charity and social media for social good " I've wanted to play the game with a critical mass of smart people who have a program and social change lens. . Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context.

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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. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. The Challenge of Transfer.

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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. The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. 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. You’ll notice that right away below the fold. Innovation Trigger.

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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. I'm always overly critical about instructional delivery, and rely on evaluations to help hone and refine it. We had a lot of content to cover in two days. Setting up a blog.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Now that we’ve discussed the benefits of technology in nonprofit training, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of what this looks like in practice. It hosts your courses and discussion forums, empowers learners to track their progress, and tracks all of the data about your programming. Build opportunities for learners to practice.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2020

In today’s interview with sgENGAGE Podcast veteran and Blackbaud University instructional designer Jocelyn Wright, you’ll learn more about why a welcome series is important, why they are valuable even in an email overload world, and what the best practices are for developing an email welcome series.

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Gyrus

MAY 5, 2016

Training is generally delivered through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, discussions, etc. LCMS- Learning Content Management System: A Software providing multi-user environment where authors, trainers, instructional designers, etc. can create, edit, store, reuse, manage, and deliver e-learning content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. We discussed creative commons, of course, and some policy options and release forms and so forth—but then went on to point out that release forms is not a social media problem—it’s more human relations and logistical in nature.

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