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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Engage on digital platforms: Use the technology younger donors favor—like QR codes or Tap to Pay —to facilitate easy capture of contact information and donations. Provide clear direction: Ensure that donors who may not be familiar with digital wallets or contactless payments receive clear instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The physical space where you deliver your training is just one piece of the instructional design puzzle.

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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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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. Think of all of the great webinars, conferences, workshops, and social media forums around these topics. My Circles required a financial investment to reflect my time as planner and facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Who will facilitate? 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. View the recording of the webinar here. Pay attention to instructions or tips on different segments of the proposal form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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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. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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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

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

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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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. 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. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I’ll be doing a Guidestar Webinar on health and productive meetings on Feb. As Louis Sullivan, HHS Secretary in 1989-93 and famous for walking meetings, notes, “For me, walking has proved to be a great way to promote a healthy lifestyle, while facilitating my communications skills and leadership efforts.”

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Connection Cafe

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. Virtual actions that solve for urgent issues: FOOD BANKS. Urgent issues.

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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. 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2007

I just finished the last segment of an online Webinar for Extension on tagging for knowledge sharing and collaboration. In terms of teaching practice, I made use of the online moderation techniques I learned from Nancy White's fantastic workshop about online facilitation , including the clock trick !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Today, I did a Webinar called " 10 Steps To Extension 2.0 So in today's Webinar called " 10 Steps To Extension 2.0 " for the National eXtension Institiative we lost the connection to the Web conference component -- and at one point almost 100 or so folks logged into the webinar had to re-enter, including me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

.” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Streaming video for presentations, webinars, and branded virtual booth experiences. event reminders that include relevant information like login instructions and tech support contacts, post-event follow up emails that say thank you and includes a link to your post-event survey. Customizable virtual booth experience for vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

I am honored to have facilitated this project with NTEN over the past 18 months on the WeAreMedia: Nonprofit and Social Media Starter Kit. Together, NTEN members and other nonprofit techies/trainers, developed and delivered workshops and webinars based on the community-generated content. But we didn't stop there.

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Forj

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

JULY 24, 2012

How do you facilitate others on staff to create content when they might not be have strong content skills? What tools do you use to manage the your editorial calendar and content creation process? I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Streaming video for presentations, webinars, and branded virtual booth experiences. event reminders that include relevant information like login instructions and tech support contacts, post-event follow up emails that say thank you and includes a link to your post-event survey. Customizable virtual booth experience for vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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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. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession. I want to improve my writing.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Facilitate Engagement. Assemble your own support team.

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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. ” The team with the fastest device wins!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. If your site is an internal system, provide training sessions, webinars, and demos prior to and immediately after launch. To support them during the Pilot, provide them with some instructions and tasks to complete.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

A virtual conference, in many ways, is similar to a physical conference, but that does not mean the two should be planned or facilitated in the same way. Facilitate Networking. The good news is that facilitating networking at your virtual event is not that difficult. Facilitate Engagement. Assemble your own support team.

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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. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Closer to the conference launch, send an agenda, instructions on how to log in to the event software and how to navigate the platform, and anything you want or need attendees to have on hand. . Virtual networking can be facilitated by the conferencing or webinar platform that you decide to go with. Early on, send updates.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

And if this is your first Bloomerang webinar, extra special welcome to all you first timers. We do these webinars just about every Thursday throughout the year. Someone that I’ve known for many years, has been a great friend to Bloomerang and our community, but never had her on the webinar series. Jen, how are you doing?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Closer to the conference launch, send an agenda, instructions on how to log in to the event software and how to navigate the platform, and anything you want or need attendees to have on hand. . Virtual networking can be facilitated by the conferencing or webinar platform that you decide to go with. Early on, send updates.

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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. I'm nervous. Hiring people.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Next, with as much detail as possible, provide step-by-step instructions on how the results were achieved. Your ability to add value to the conversation, whether by facilitating a thoughtful discussion or by presenting industry changing data, is what gives your content meaning. Conclusion.

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