Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I select guests who can answer a specific set of questions related to my lesson plan or expand on an example of a campaign or example that I share. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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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. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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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. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. Here are some tips.

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