Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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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 the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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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

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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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

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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

Facilitate virtual meetups, book clubs, and happy hours with special guests, like No Vet Alone is doing. Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. You provide graphics and hashtags. Raise awareness of critical, life-saving COVID-19 measures. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

And then the fee for service is mostly school districts that contract with the Workshop for science enrichment/science instruction. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. What unique design elements make Community Science Workshops work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

StoryCorps provides a free, downloadable Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide , as well as an Education Toolkit to use in a classroom or library, and a Community Service Toolkit to use in, "veteran’s hospitals, senior centers, homeless shelters, and other community centers." It is organized according to the type of person you'll be interviewing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design. Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. I pull out a few screen captures and then do an interview with the organization in front of the room. This typically unpacks more insightful information and nuggets of wisdom.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

From investing in upgraded LMS technology to creating a learning business plan to instructional design, each task involves a specific skill set that the average association professional may not have. Think of this as a job interview— this professional will be responsible for providing the strategy behind the growth of your learning business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

What is needed, perhaps, is a Twitter Annotation project to facilitate translation of languages. In the meantime, if you want to help translate the tweets, instructions are here and here. What this can do is prevent language from being a barrier to participate or follow a social change through social media.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. How to solve a quadratic equation. How to titrate an acid.

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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. This week I put that into practice. It was eye opening.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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. At the end of the conference, I interviewed Rosetta along with Ashely Cecil , Erin McMahon , and Diana Church -- all young nonprofit professionals. Let me explain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

Instructions for Playing.   Each group will be assigned an instructor/facilitator.     (I'm hoping that participants will have viewed or seen Chris Heuer's video interview with Charlene as part of the promotion of the workshop.    I will also give an overview of the rules. 

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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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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 always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. Anyone reading this have that and willing to share with me via an interview?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Finally, help users feel a sense of ownership over the site by asking for their feedback through satisfaction surveys, interviews, feedback forms, and usability testing. Usually, we recommend full-time until the site becomes more self-sustaining.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. Newspaper columnists and talk show hosts called for interviews after reading our poignant op-ed pieces. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. I think I noticed your interview with Marnie Webb, who I recognized from TechSoup.org.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Prepare compelling stories or interviews that resonate with the local audience, and provide high-quality images or videos that these outlets can use in their reporting. For example, teachers could explain how the whiteboards have enhanced their instructional methods, allowing for more engaging lessons. Local news and press.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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