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. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. By applying this approach to program development or strategy, your nonprofit can get more impactful results. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations. Anyone can be a designer! Bull’s Eye. We worked in small teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

See the small group exercises timing charts in this document ). If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes. Here’s some ideas for different questions for virtual icebreakers for nonprofits ). Small Group Activities.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

By Julia Campbell , a social media and storytelling consultant for nonprofits and author of Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits. She regularly provides useful tips and resources to the nonprofit sector through her blog, #501SocialBlog. If you are able to post once per day or more on Stories, that’s great!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. How To Design Transformative Capacity Building for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We focused on digital transformation because incorporating digital has become essential for delivering on all aspects of a nonprofit’s mission, not just fundraising and communications but program delivery and governance. Each section lists best practices and processes for being a digital nonprofit. Opening Exercise.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Use Patient Journey Mapping Patient journey mapping exercise helps healthcare leaders understand how patients interact with their providers by outlining each communication touchpoint. Treatment: The healthcare system prescribes treatment and follow-up instructions. That said, let’s explore these tips in more detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. The format of the concept poster was more open then the close-ended set of exercises and questions on the worksheet.

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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

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN’s 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called “ Supercharge Your Technology Training ,” so please take a minute to vote for it. . I’ve also done this during a session as part of a small group exercise.

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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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Training Train Reflection Resource 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. ” It isn’t about making the time or thinking about physical activity or movement as a separate exercise time, but something that is integrated into your life – including work time. Even in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. That’s the theory at least.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

If you’re a nonprofit leader, 2020 has likely put a wrench in your usual event planning strategy. In order to adapt to this new normal, many nonprofit event planners have been exploring virtual or hybrid alternatives. In-person events are likely what your nonprofit has traditionally done in the past. Exercise classes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

” I was lucky enough to collaborate with Janet McIntyre , a nonprofit leadership coach and Jeffrey Golde , Adjunct Professor of Management: Columbia Business School, along with Abe Flores from AFTA. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work. Of course, we messed up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Reflection Data Slides Exercise 95

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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Qgiv

MAY 11, 2021

Tracy Ring is a former nonprofit worker and current freelance writer and marketer. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations feared the worst. At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofit organizations feared the worst. Encourage Employee Matched Giving Campaigns as a Remote Team Building Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

And, if you want to dive deeper into content marketing for nonprofits, go subscribe to Kivi Leroux Miller’s blog. I hear she is working or has finished a second book on content marketing for nonprofits, and if you haven’t read her first book, here’s where to find it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else.

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Activities Active Activism Digital 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! Small group or partnering learning activity: Reflection on reading materials, debriefing on exercises or practice activities, identifying issues and concerns, brainstorming ideas and solutions to bring to the whole group, action research. Medium: Up to 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. The curriculum integrates the use of technology, for all aspects of instruction and managing the school.

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