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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. Training Design'

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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! Sometimes at first you feel like – oh crap – this didn’t work and don’t even want to look at it again.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Identify champions and people to work with. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. What worked for whom and under what conditions? Work together to learn about evaluation, design studies, strengthen each other and celebrate successes.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design.

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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

A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. I’ve followed Cathy Davidson’s work ever since I stumbled upon her work at Hastac. This book will give you a way to be more intentional about your social media work and improve it.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising and marketing. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches.

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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?