John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

The Bias Issue AI systems like LLMs are trained on vast datasets of text, primarily from the internet. This training data reflects the racial biases, stereotypes, and disproportionate perspectives of the world where the data comes from. Feed the system explicit instructions and examples displaying equitable behavior.

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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. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Candid

JULY 13, 2023

Anticipated expenses: Direct costs, like staff time, consultants, supplies, equipment, and evaluation (such as conducting surveys or collecting feedback). Before you begin, make sure to read and re-read the instructions from the funder. You can also check out our free live and on-demand trainings. Need more help?

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Technology has impacted almost every aspect of our lives and training & development is no exception. Advanced software, technology tools, and innovative methods are being used to enhance training program’s quality, participation and engagement as well as to enable corporate training to be a more personalized experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Next, try provocative statements.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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TechImpact

JULY 8, 2014

The trick to getting the most out of them is ensuring the individuals who will be using the software are properly trained , and have had their expectations clearly defined. In part 1 of this series, we put a lot of importance on training your employees to utilize your new CRM correctly, and effectively. Create a user guide.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory. THE RESEARCH The challenge, of course, was to figure out how to evaluate the experience in a way that would help us identify the power of the project. What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Images are better than words for instructional aids. The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. Walk and Talk: I do this a lot in half-day or full-day trainings. Training Design' Having participants talk is better than listening. Shorter is better than longer.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Train callers on matching gifts. Having a team of well-trained callers is the secret to any successful phonathon campaign. We suggest that you: Identify any knowledge gaps and situations where additional training is needed. Train callers on matching gifts. Create a standardized script. Practice with mock calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. But applying it on your own – unless you are an analytics genius – can be difficult.

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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. Facilitation'

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently. One of the most popular generative AI programs is ChatGPT, which aims to provide human-like responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

This will also allow the new employee to evaluate past ventures with a new eye and establish any possible shortcomings, shaping an environment where the organization can actually learn from their previous mistakes. Take the time to evaluate this list and see if any of it could be applicable to your organization.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2012

As students return to school this and next month and buy their required reading books, principals, instructional coaches, department chairs, lead teachers, and teachers hopefully will have read this summer as their required reading Paul Bambrick-Santoyo’s new book, Leverage Leadership – A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools. “As

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Test and evaluate as you move ahead.” Create Capacity I can’t over-emphasize the importance of training. I am not a fan of employees training each other unless you can shift responsibilities to ensure that people have the capacity to take on a teaching role. Don’t spend months deciding what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions. What audience interaction tools do you use to engage participants at a training – in the room and remotely? These were workshops at Cause Camp , Global Giving , and the Hartford Foundation. Flash polls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review. My Theme for the Year: Learning. What is your theme for the year?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This isn’t a way of thinking routinely instructed in underserved schools. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Welcome: AI 2-Minute Rule As a starting point, assume what takes you 2 hours can take AI 2 minutes , consider this when evaluating tasks. Instead of completing the task yourself or putting it on the pile, send it to a trained model that can deliver a rough draft or quick solutions. Adjust prompt instructions or model as needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Fluency in social media skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

This rings of significant importance for businesses that are completely structured around a mobilized workforce, as training offerings of the past have seemed like a distant and unachievable possibility. Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets.

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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 participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. Participant-Generated Instructional Content. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Implementation: Onboarding your team onto the CSR software often has associated costs like data migration, training, and customization to fit your specific needs. Make sure whichever providers you’re considering offer training to simplify onboarding. You can go further than this to ensure seamless adoption, though.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

However, my inability to participate aside, Pokémon Go is a very good application of Augmented Reality, and with the user base growing at such an alarming rate, it has caused many organizations to take pause and evaluate what seems to be endless opportunities in not only the game and its facets but in the delivery method itself.

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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. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Training Design. It also includes a face-to-face workshop where there is also the same balance. This year’s session was piggy-backed with the annual meeting, so the training came at the end of 2.5

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