Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

A common scenario is where the majority of meeting participants in one location, a conference room, and are trying to collaborate with a handful of invisible partners on the other end of phone line or video conference call. This can happen even if your organization is using video conferencing. The exercise teaches empathy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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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 ). Both language and what you’re teaching. Even if you have a video with sub-titles, the speakers might be speaking too fast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Video is here ). The principles of Essentialism teaches us to know the difference and use our resources wisely. It reminds of the choices you have make when you decide to make a lifestyle change in terms of diet and exercise. These sessions are on video and walk you through the steps of Essentialism with a video and worksheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Marcelo Iniarra pointed out that people have limited attention, but simple human experiences like this video of an interrupted skype interview with Robert Kelly from Korean caught people’s attention around the globe. I facilitated a brief interactive exercise with the audience to better understand the process.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Host a few mindfulness activities, where a leader takes attendees through guided meditation, breathing exercises, or yoga sessions. Much like a cooking class, a cocktail class is a creative virtual event idea that can also teach some of your attendees how to mix delicious ingredients for a tasty drink. Virtual events can be tiring too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

On Friday, I co-presented the video blogging presentation at the Cambodian Bloggers Summit with Virak , Cambodia's first Cambodian video blogger (I think). A lot of the reaction to video blogging can be summed up by Chandee's face below which I included in the presentation materials I revised the day before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

As a trainer, sometimes we get into “ruts&# where we use the same exercises and that can make you less passionate about your work. In the above video, Naeema Zarif. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. explains the how and why. Photo by SMEXbeirut. The notes are captured here.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

There’s videos you can really get a good sense of what we’re all about here at Bloomerang. These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. So love to teach and train and share the knowledge I have to take other organizations to the next level.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, I became completely intoxicated with the online videos of Vi Hart , self-described mathemusician. Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

I often tell folks that making a practice of self-editing is a great way to level up : finish your draft (email appeal, social media post, video script, or whatever else), walk away from it for a minute, and then go back and make changes as an editor would. I think about that sometimes when I’m coaching other writers at M+R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

" The classes are broken up into short, engaging videos and supplemented with fun, interactive exercises. Codeacademy is different from the other sites listed here because it is just dedicated to teaching people how to code. There are also class forums and meet-ups so you can get homework help from your peers.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2011

These campaigns are aimed at elementary and middle school students respectively; over 40,000 schools participate each year, teaching kids about the importance of exercise, heart health, and helping others. Click here to check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Each of us took on a different aspect of nonprofit technology design and incorporated some interactive exercises. Tobais Eigen captured it on video. Autumn Patterson ( @nerddotorg ) took excellent notes of the key points during the session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. Flexible Space: The Secret To Good Training.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

You have to teach them to share their personal stories, and we’re going to get into that in more detail in what I’m talking about around sharing the personal story. And so they created a series of videos, not complicated, didn’t charge them a lot. I got caught up in something else.” So keep that in mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2007

I'm also trying to teach them to make good food choices, get exercise, and be healthy. I asked a few colleagues on Blogher and beyond and discovered a few excellent blogs and video blogs that offer advice and recipes for parents who want to make sure their kids are eating a healthy meal. I can always use some help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). Content Assets: Organizing and Archiving Tools.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Here’s a quick video. Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress. ” It might suggest the need for professional development in teaching skills of up managing or being more assertive. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting!

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. Oh, no business increased, coaching increased, the amount of change management exercises I had to take organizations through increased.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. (The We participated in a small group role play exercise.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

You can check out videos to watch to really get a sense of what we’re all about. . I’m all in favor of intellectuals, and reading, and learning, and teaching. And we turned this into an exercise. . And I just did a 20-part video how to, master class series on monthly giving. And we’ve got too many.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

I am beginning to post the photos, videos, and notes that I took while I was there. As many of you may have already read, part of my project budget was to include video blogging camera kits to give as prizes or awards to encourage video bloggers. I participated in the role play exercise with him and he is a strong leader.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

There’s all kinds of videos and resources you can get a hold of to kind of get to know us and maybe even make contact if that’s something you are interested in or in need of in terms of software. . So today, I’m going to teach you a bit about how to actually do that. We are a provider of donor management software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? video and having people type themes into the chat worked. I wanted to use more video examples, but only selected one that was more of a music video in case the audio didn't work. I am teaching two more sessions.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

You can go to our website, there’s all kinds of videos and resources you can check out there to get to know us a little bit more. And you go to this event, and the organization puts on this incredible event and there are moving speakers and an incredible video. Well, you should be learning too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

Ten or eleven years ago, when I was learning HTML and Web site creation (in the very early days) and teaching arts organizations, I always started with an exercise called " Critical Browsing." The screencast is done MTV style - that is it is like a music video - visuals and music - no narration. Instructional.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if that is of interest to you, maybe you’re thinking of switching software or you’re just kind of curious about us, check out our website, all kinds of videos and stuff you can watch and, you know, we’d love for you to learn more. I could practically teaching this class. Move aside, Julie. Julie: Oh, love it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Maybe think about making a switch or, if you’re just curious about what we have going on, visit our website, all kinds of videos you can watch, kind of get a sense of what we’re all about. That Zoom briefing of where your organization is at becomes a video. . People like pictures, video over words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Machine Is US/ing Us (video) ( transcript ). Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. Discovery Exercise.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

If it helps get through one planning exercise a month, it pays for itself. TechSmith also makes cool free/paid video capture Jing as well more complex Camtasia – all good. Steve enjoys speaking and teaching about the creative use of technology to clients and at conferences. Powerpoint?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. You'll also need some video editing software. Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it. It's recently been updated.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. To kick off the course, we’re doing a simple exercise at the Seattle zoo (but you can do it anywhere).

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