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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

Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. Some things to consider include: What resources (technology, space, materials, time, finances, etc.) The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry.

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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

If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it This book will help. Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey.

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More on Collaborative Knowledge Capture for Conferences Using Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Loretta argues: The first supposition is that as various means are used to capture the proceedings of an event, (Nancy mentions: Chat/IRC, Videocasts, VOIPcasts, Podcasts, and Visual Facilitation), the performance of encapsulating and depicting is in itself learning. Loretta, doe it depend on which learning theory you buy into?

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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. One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it.

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