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. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Here are some effective strategies to consider: Offer exclusive access: Offer exclusive perks or experiences to donors who bring friends along. Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

The reality that vulnerable communities who are often most impacted by the effects of climate change are also the communities least responsible for causing it makes the unfairness of this lack of support particularly glaring. . A separate Facilitator’s toolkit is available to support this activity at your foundation. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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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. I wondered about a creative way to use already collected burning questions without taking up instructional time to rehash them again through an icebreaker. Comfort Levels. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.” By Dave Meier. By Vicki Halsey.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Social media icons According to Charity Net USA, incorporating social media buttons into your nonprofit website is essential for effective marketing. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Here are eight features your nonprofit website should include: 1.

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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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JUNE 9, 2023

Three Benefits of an Effective Grant Management System Three Challenges in Grant Management How Blackbaud Can Help Grant Lifecycle Before diving into an overview of how grant management works, it’s important to understand the general grantmaking process. Three Benefits of an Effective Grant Management System 1.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

It is essential to adapt your fundraising strategies to engage and involve those age 50 and above effectively. There are other methods like charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, and more, but none as effective as being included in the donor’s Will. Provide clear instructions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Evaluation Capacity = ability to do and use evaluations The key to achieving more effective evaluation and overcoming these challenges is evaluation capacity building (ECB). The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. You need to assess the process’ own outcomes and effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Now, this isn’t just string of instructional videos and isn’t a series of webinars — that’s just old school. It’s a revolutionary concept to scale the effectiveness of one-on-one tutoring. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Here’s how you can effectively use tribute dedications during the year-end giving season: 1. Alongside clear instructions and a seamless donation form , you can enhance a donor’s experience with creative touches, such as sending a heartfelt letter or a small token of appreciation to the honoree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. I will be exploring and writing about assessment, curriculum development, facilitation, evaluation, and documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. Course objectives: Understand the harmful effects of prolonged sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. 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. Year in Review. I also was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Understanding how other departments operate and empathizing with their needs is fundamental to making systems work effectively and creating buy-in. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. The best instruction is probably going to come from the experts who are most familiar with the product, i.e. the vendor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Do we need to the whole hour to accomplish the same amount of work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

An effective nonprofit blog is an indispensable marketing tool. Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2017

The Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) came into effect July 1, 2014 and is applicable to anyone who sends commercial electronic messages. During this time, many nonprofits reviewed their email marketing programs for compliance, and Blackbaud ensured all of our products used to send email facilitated your ability to do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. If everyone at a meeting was engaged, wouldn’t the meeting be more effective? The facilitator told us a specific time to be back.

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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. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Gyrus

MAY 3, 2016

AI – Artificial Intelligence : A variety of techniques built in the LMS system that replicates the role of a human tutor/instructor, effectively guiding and coaching the learners through the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Or, individuals in a business course could complete an open-ended case study-based assessment to test how well they can apply the information presented, effectively testing skills acquired. Because of this, it’s not the most effective assessment for testing true understanding of a topic. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

In addition to optimizing the software and tools you use to facilitate large amounts of data, keeping data clean is essential to ensuring you can understand and accurately report it. A growing database indicates that your organization is reaching more clients, receiving more donations, and making a larger impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

Briefly remind members what you’ve offered them in the past year by mentioning: Successful events you’ve planned Community-building activities you’ve facilitated Services or opportunities you’ve offered After a quick jaunt down memory lane, your member should be able to fondly recall all they’ve gained after a year as a member of your organization.

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