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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I worked with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to design, development and facilitate training on how staff can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy, including a special session training your attention online. Teaching: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. My Three Words.

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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

Top Nonprofits

Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better. In a course about soliciting donations over the phone, don’t have the donor say “Hello. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. One of the things that I do before I teach this workshop is look at the participant's social media ant trails by looking at their web sites, twitter streams, Facebook and YouTube.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen.

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Assembling the Right Team for an E-Learning Project

sgEngage

Improved staff and volunteer retention rates, fundraising and donor stewardship outcomes, and training engagement come to mind. They’ll bring technical course authoring and instructional design expertise to the table, so you’ll walk away with a course that teaches your staff members or volunteers to do their jobs better. .

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Tips for Taking a Tech-Fueled Approach to Nonprofit Training

DNL OmniMedia

Your organization uses nonprofit technology to track data, research donors, communicate with volunteers, and market upcoming opportunities. For example, you can create a learning game focused on the best ways to respond to “No” answers from prospective donors. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.