ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

What does the decision making and organizational structure look like? The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. What level of interest and incentives to learn and implement evaluation are present? Does the environment support change, accountability, and communication?

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Evaluation Program Attitude Instruction 52

Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Similarly, provide clear instructions for individuals interested in volunteering or getting involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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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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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

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. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

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. Working in an institutional setting is far more structured, formal, more face-to-face meetings, slower paced, and less porosity.

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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. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. Ask Good Questions.

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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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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

The environmental scan phase looks at the external market: who the association’s competition is, what the target market wants, if there is a market for the content being provided, what type of pricing structure to enact, and more. However, creating a formal learning business within your organization is a whole new ballgame.

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2007

She's Geeky provided the structure or container, we all got to personalized what we giving to one another and what getting in return. I facilitated a session on working in the nonprofit sector, with colleague Liz Perry , who is a sketch blogger and works an instructional technology specialist in a nonprofit school. Laurie Rae.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Having a facilitator - the summaries helped make the tag stream accessible. The community was always a loosely coupled community, porous and is able to grow organically first and then structure second. I'll facilitating week 5 along with Shawn Callahan and Susanne Nyrop. An important skill set is filtering what's useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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Social Media Network Media California 99

Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The goal of this technology is to help companies structure valuable CSR programs to support the causes that are important to the business and its employees. Volunteer Management Volunteer management tools within CSR software facilitate the organization and coordination of employee volunteer activities. Who Uses CSR Software?

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Software Business Guide Companies 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. That is the “Sage on the Stage&# model.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Create a structure that values peoples' participation. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Ensure that you as convenor are talking for a very small amount of the time--ideally just to frame, contextualize, provide clear instructions, and keep people moving.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). But when it comes to building from a template, sheet music has simple power. Everything old is new again.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Instances where change management might be needed include adopting a new technology solution, product line, compensation structure, or standard operating procedure. Each member should bring unique insights and skills to the table to facilitate a well-rounded approach to change.

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Change Management Change Management Nonprofit 52

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.

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Education Student Alabama Vermont 121

Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. Create standards and guidelines for quality writing and then set up structures to facilitate quality writing among staff. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts. It’s all very humbling. Pretty good, but bland.

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Tips Nonprofit Skills Sample 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. Duck Tape: 4 minutes for others offer advice.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Click to download worksheet. And everyday until….

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Fund Campaign Practice Giving 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. In most cases simple syntax structure is used. adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Hiring people.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Structure Content With An Introduction, Body, and Conclusion. This is what makes structure such a critical component of any content marketing process. It’s not a sexy topic, but structuring your ideas is what constrains our thoughts to adherable guidelines. As mentioned, thoughts are tough to translate into words.

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