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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Use Learning Theory. Has the workshop been effective in advancing the participant’s learning?

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. Make sure your organization is ready for capacity building. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. are available?

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is less about the tools and more about the new mindsets you need to be successful. There are two excellent books that talk about this in the context of running an organization and addressing social issues – and I plan to review these in more depth next week. Both by authors with first names of Brian.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building and relationship marketing best practices. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world. She funded her first pilot with her allowance!

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. She spent the majority of the time talking about what went wrong, and she introduced an organizational learning theory called "double-loop learning" that resonated with me.

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