Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Note from Beth: I’ve been a fan of the Games for Change Festival since I first attended in 2006. Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. and 47% of whom are female, spend a collective 3 billion hours per week on digital games! You can register here. In Education.

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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. I taught a very brief workshop in strategic social media using the social media strategy game. The game has a strong communications lens. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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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. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Consider adding the following: Gamification: Gamification is the use of game-like elements and competition outside of a typical video game or sport setting. Translation Services: Accessibility is the name of the game. It is important to take steps to facilitate networking and elevate the attendee experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2008

  The Social Media Game. The goal of game:   There's no winners or losers.    The game is intended to help you think through a social media strategy and share tips and knowledge. Instructions for Playing.     Introduction: Overview the key concepts in the game. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment? Gamification.

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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. I used the social media game as a peer assist exercise for the first time. And, as such, the game was a little bit more advanced than it needed to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. . Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Consider adding the following: Gamification: Gamification is the use of game-like elements and competition outside of a typical video game or sport setting. Translation Services: Accessibility is the name of the game. It is important to take steps to facilitate networking and elevate the attendee experience.

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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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

If you’ve sent your letter using direct mail, include a paper copy as well as instructions for those who want to complete the form online. When timed correctly, adding a few special benefits to the mix can be a game-changer for your renewal responses!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

Day 3 of the Train the Trainers session was devoted to Digital Activism and facilitated by Mary Joyce. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. It boils down to audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2007

I had to restate the instructions again and I said, "Write down on the back of the $20 bill" Rather than painfully print and cut up the cards myself, I used kinkos. On Sunday, for Boston Media Makers , I will facilitate a discussion from participants about their best online promotion tips. They came out great!

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. To host this type of fundraiser virtually, you’ll have to get a little creative with the game format and venue. Game-a-thon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. I was also delighted to contribute a WeAreMedia version of the social media game. It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending ! But we didn't stop there.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. Instead, you should seek a CME LMS that can facilitate virtual events alongside CE programming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning was designed around the Principles of Social Media Strategy and used a new version of the Social Media Game intended for a large group of people. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. The Environmental Defense Fund has used the game for an internal training for 300 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Today I facilitated a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. I'm feeling good about the workshop because I feel that I'm finally closer to mastering differentiated instruction with social media and nonprofits. Let me explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. I had intended to do the game simulation, but it was too nonprofit centric.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Yes, you’ll need an efficient way to process donations and facilitate the collection of food drive items. Make instructions for your event useful and compelling, and predict what questions your donors need answers for, like: Are you accepting physical donations? Where can physical donations be dropped off?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Volunteer Management Volunteer management tools within CSR software facilitate the organization and coordination of employee volunteer activities. Gamification features vary widely but follow the same premise: they introduce elements of game design to motivate employees and stakeholders to participate in CSR activities.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

GAME NIGHTS & CRAFTING On the opposite end of the spectrum from concerts, you can go full-interactive by hosting a bingo night, poker tournament, trivia games, or a craft workshop. Virtual Game and Craft Night Tips: You can charge a ticket price to participate, have a donation drive during the event itself, or both!

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

GAME NIGHTS & CRAFTING. On the opposite end of the spectrum from concerts, you can go full-interactive by hosting a bingo night, poker tournament, trivia games, or a craft workshop. Virtual Game and Craft Night Tips: You can charge a ticket price to participate, have a donation drive during the event itself, or both!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. Rather than having our exhibit team walk through and fix things up every once in awhile, we wrote facilitation plans for the Memory Jars and other intensive participatory elements. Memory Jars installation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

The facilitator is functionally another visitor, one with whom the participant is not only willing but eager to speak. But Storycorps still requires facilitators, and it asks a lot of its participants. This is what separates Daisy from all the instructional graphics and "What do YOU thinks?" we can put on screens.

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Reflection Interaction Game Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Pressing the buttons was not particularly thrilling, and I never saw kids playing the usual bang-on-the-buttons game. Right now, Free2choose is a game that illuminates diversity of opinion on tough issues. It could become a game that encourages people to talk with each other about these issues. But it could go further.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. What worked? What didn't? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

This label set up a casual game for me: look for orange, do the thing. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. Peter writes about Casey’s work in Little Bets as a Colonel in the US Military and as head of instruction at West Point Academy.

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