.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Program Attitude Nonprofit 52

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. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time. 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.

Design 107

Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas. My Circles required a financial investment to reflect my time as planner and facilitator. Think of all of the great webinars, conferences, workshops, and social media forums around these topics.

Professional 61

Professional Skills Leadership Facilitation 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day help me think and digest when I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! Also, if I’m on calls I do them while walking around.

Work 135

Work Brain Exercise Conference 135

Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ve rounded up a list of specific examples of virtual opportunities, organized by nonprofit issue area, that solve real problems and are easy to execute. This new environment is an opportunity to rethink solutions to strategic problems and create innovative virtual events that inspire supporters to do more. DISEASE FOUNDATIONS.

Virtual 33

Virtual Volunteer Challenge Mobile 33

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.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems. Around Gender. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

Difference 110

Difference Game New York City San Francisco 110

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.

Social Media 87

Social Media Game Media Social 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

Training 98

Training Train Reflection Design 98

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.

Pakistan 111

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

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.

Facilitation 82

Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 82

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? Proctoring high-stakes exams.

eLearning 69

eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Achieve

JUNE 30, 2022

Your partner will manage relationships with participating retailers and facilitate payments to your organization. As many of your supporters may be new to shopping fundraisers, be sure to share detailed instructions about how to participate, including links to download your program’s app and browser extension. . unique fundraiser.

Fundraising 52

Fundraising Nonprofit Generation Program 52

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.

Reflection 64

Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

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.

Channel 87

Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

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.

Facilitation 60

Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. I love to hark back to Thomas Jefferson’s take on ideas. “He For me, it started in late 1999 noticing a new icon on our home PC. These were the days when people had just one PC at home.

Accessibility 135

Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. The problem is that it takes doing it more than once. And, the sand box needs to be more play than formal instruction.

Network 84

Network Work Facilitation Social Media 84

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.

Skills 50

Skills Build Technique Language 50

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. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Growing My Instructional Chops. Stay tuned for that!

Social Media 91

Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

In past posts, I've talked about: The Secret Life of a Wiki Gardener : Using a gardening metaphor, I drill down into the fine art of wiki facilitation. The problem is how to accomplish that without it being too confusing. Here are a few resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ).

Offline 50

Offline Content Wiki Community 50

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

One of the largest problems with learning content in our industry is ensuring its effectiveness, as well as appropriately catering it to the needs of individual organizations. Imagine a comprehensive approach to facilitating once a day training within a short time window.

Industry 74

Industry Learning Environment Training 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. I have gotten good at taking notes while I walk.

Product 50

Product Free Brain Group 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

The problem is that many nonprofits approach social media with over blown expectations, don’t realize them, and then throw their hands up and quit. Participant-Generated Instructional Content. It is a fantastic laboratory to take some of the ideas in the book and put in them into a practice.

Social Media 99

Social Media Network Media California 99

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. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. Gen Z by the Numbers.

Social 28

Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2007

My Logo, Cambodian Style by Virak Now that I finished the campaign to raise the money to get myself to Cambodia to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit, I've been very busy preparing instructional materials. said, no problem, "I will make you one." I'm very excited to be teaching Web2.0 " Ah, I have no logo.

Personal 50

Personal Cambodia Blogher Blogger 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. No problem.

Reflection 50

Reflection Laptop Wiki Artist 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

David Weinberger hosed his laptop and apparently after cursing on his blog and breaking the "shit" and "fuck" barrier face-to-face in the room ( !@#$% laptop ) went on to deliver a brilliant keynote speech, including slides that had HTML tags with instructions like Talk About Tagging Here. Here's a live blog of what he said and here.

Blogher 50

Blogher Vlog San Jose Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Technorati tags can help you attract more readers for your blog and also facilitate contributing to the collective community wisdom surrounding a particular tag. The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. I hope you get a good laugh. Here's the script.

Technorati 50

Technorati Screencast Tag Storyboard 50

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. And pencils.

Participatory 44

Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

The problems are scale and comfort. The fabulous Storycorps project partially sidesteps these problems by requiring participants to bring their own conversation partner to the booths in which they record life stories. The facilitator is functionally another visitor, one with whom the participant is not only willing but eager to speak.

Reflection 20

Reflection Interaction Game Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

THE CHALLENGE Carnegie Museum of Art director Lynn Zelevansky challenged us to find a way to overcome a major practical problem with our Forum Gallery space: how to get visitors to enter a gallery that is often obscured by a large wall that blocks the light from the large lobby windows nearby.

Museum 45

Museum Arts Problem Design 45

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community.

Knowledge 60

Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Although legal and regulatory requirements stipulate that schools must provide accessible ‘equivalent’ resources for students with disabilities, in practice the majority of these students do not have equal access to textbooks and other instructional materials that make up the primary resources of the general curriculum.

eBook 203

eBook Accessibility United States Student 203

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.

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

The University of Vermont (UVM) implemented Service Cloud as part of a multi-phased release to help facilitate the UVM vision of a connected campus. Service Cloud] allows us, in a very organized and structured environment, to be able to bring resources to bear on this pretty complex problem that demands more than just a shared email inbox.

Education 121

Education Student Alabama Vermont 121