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. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you answer this question and more. At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Adjustments to Course Design and Development. For example, let’s say you’re working from home. While some aspects of operating a nonprofit are universal across the board— every nonprofit needs to file a Form 990, for example— there are many aspects that are unique to your team alone. Use scenario-based learning.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. In the continuing education context, a great example would be online discussion boards. Sequencing.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. For example, it’s easy to imagine new guidance around pandemic procedures on the horizon. Responsive design. Complicated Accreditation Reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. ” This is known as being “versatile” and can help you succeed in different situations. You can find the resources here. It is called “The Strength I See in You.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. He called them “Consequential Strangers,” and they can help you out. Weak ties bring in new thinking, ideas, and resources. Amy shared an awesome list of mobile resources.

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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. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Experiments require short-term losses for long-term gains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Taking a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training comes with the following benefits: Increased Flexibility and Accessibility: One great example is volunteer orientation. With visuals of the form and walk-through examples, we were able to put the content into context and make the information easier to process. E-learning resources.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Essentially, these platforms are used by those with the need for and resources to invest in comprehensive training programs to train a large audience of learners. In that scenario, you’d want to bring in an eLearning expert to help with the project. Should you invest in an authoring tool?

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Gyrus

MAY 5, 2016

EHRI -Enterprise Human Resources Integration : US federal government’s human resource system that gets integrated with any federally deployed LMS. HRIS – Human Resource Information System : A software system that manages multiple human resource functions such as hiring, payroll, tracking employees’ attendance, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

My trick for helping participants avoid a food coma is to get the audience moving ). The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. Resources are never unlimited, so be sure to prioritize your target audiences as well.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses.

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