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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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. 2) TRUST: Trust is Everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Reflective listening skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a team meeting, training, or interacting with co-workers and whether you are the facilitator or a participant.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey.

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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. Offline use with automatic sync. Instead, you should seek a CME LMS that can facilitate virtual events alongside CE programming.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. This generation is doing more than clicking online, they’re making change in the world! Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

So, the flow or sequence would go something like this: * Read poems by poet (offline in books) * Talk about the poems with peers facilitated by instructor (face-to-face). Did you ever seen the Noon Quilt project that was done by trAce online? Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

The community manager is responsible for sustaining, nurturing, and growing the site into a thriving online destination. Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Also, check out Andrew Cohen’s great post on successful online communities.

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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. Some strategies for offline/online engagement were discussed. What worked? What didn't?

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