Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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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. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I taught social media integration and “ Train the Trainers ” workshops for trainers who would be delivering the curriculum throughout Tunisia. Peer Learning Capacity Building Programs: This year I continued my work in designing and facilitating peer learning programs on behalf of several foundations for their grantees.

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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. Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Of all of the trainings that I have offered since starting Twenty Hats, I am proudest of the two Volunteer Manager Leadership Circles that I initiated. The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Who will facilitate? And of course, how will translate all this into a succinct description that participants will immediately understand if it matches their needs? These are some of the best practices of planning a high quality session. Recently, Points of Light offered an instructional webinar on how to design a conference session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

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. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Tuesday, I had the opportunity to do a Webinar called " Social Media for Trainers: A Bag of Tricks " over at the Engage 365 Online Community site. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. I blogged about the content last week.

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APRIL 28, 2020

sign up) to ask for donations (see our “No Money, More Problems” webinar for how), or host fundraising-specific events like multi-day virtual galas with different speakers, trainings on best virtual fundraising practices and webinars with donor special guests. Shortage of healthy, trained medical staff. Urgent issues.

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APRIL 22, 2021

If you have eLearning courses that are outdated (for example, built using Adobe Flash, which was sunsetted at the end of 2020) or otherwise not meeting your needs (such as a live webinar that you want to repackage for on-demand viewing), a consultant can assist with this transition. Administering your LMS and providing call center management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Training Design. It also includes a face-to-face workshop where there is also the same balance. This year’s session was piggy-backed with the annual meeting, so the training came at the end of 2.5 I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Solicit and share stories. Key influencers take action, including media.

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DECEMBER 11, 2010

Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Another way is through explicit training and guidance. Make sure you have a detailed support and training process in place to help users. To support them during the Pilot, provide them with some instructions and tasks to complete.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. This will go hand in hand with the training work I do. I have a confession.

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JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. Online webinars and classes have skyrocketed in popularity in the past year. Community classes. Virtual Peer-to-Peer Ideas for the Active.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. guru-in-training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. The program includes an IT program where women receive weekly instruction in using Microsoft Office and navigating the Internet. This is an important employment skill for them.

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