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

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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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

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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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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JUNE 28, 2023

It is essential to adapt your fundraising strategies to engage and involve those age 50 and above effectively. Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. Provide clear instructions. What age group should you target?

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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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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. Gordon Meyer has good reflection on the Community Media Workshop Blog). (2) Comfort Levels. In the United States, I've noticed that over the past 2-3 years, there is a growing divide in participants experience/knowledge gap.

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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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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 we can be more intentional and disciplined in our experimentation, that's how we gain insights about effective social media use. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. For example, Ana-Marie Jones from Card Can Help shared how her small agency has implemented an effective social media strategy. I was able to capture some of her story with a FLIP camera. I got to learn a few new tricks and continued to polish approaches already in my toolbox.

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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. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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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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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 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

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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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. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees. Photo by Gary Clark.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Happy New Year !

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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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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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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. Here’s some examples.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

But without an effective volunteer recruitment strategy, finding participants for peer-to-peer fundraisers can be challenging. Sending a direct message will strike interest and capture attention from potential participants more effectively than if they saw a post about your cause amongst many others on their homepage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This session closed with a reflection of how they could apply tips and recommendations and use measurement to further test these ideas. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process. How To Get More Likes and Shares on Facebook – Based on Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. And, the sand box needs to be more play than formal instruction. Reflection at the end to harvest learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll Tunisie Telecom learned about Esmaani thanks to their effective Facebook page and selected the organization based on the importance of their charity work in Tunisian society. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't?

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene was the consultant on Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness grant to strengthen the network of a Population/Reproductive Health grantee, The International Institute of Education's Leadership Development for Moblizing Reproductive Health Program. He is currently facilitating strategic planning for the wikimedia movement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

I participated in Nancy White's online facilitation workshop last fall where one of the participants was the thoughtful Nick Noakes who is the Associate Director for the Center for Enhanced Learning and Teaching at a university in Hong Kong. " I think he succeeded. " Here's the PDF of the slides.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Effective Professional Networking Skills I've written about this in the next section.

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