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E-Mediat: A Simple Design Process for an Online Learning Community Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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A New Approach for Nonprofit Professional Development: Micro-Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated. That’s the future.

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6 Ways to Keep Corporate Partners Engaged During COVID-19

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These could include helping run your social media pages, assisting with data entry, or facilitating research projects. If your nonprofit has pivoted its services to address the COVID-19 crisis, highlight that work to your corporate partner. Instead, work with your corporate partners to move your fundraising events online.

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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New Online Learning Resource for NGOs - Building Electronic Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The module we both worked on (not together - independently) is titled " Building Electronic Communities and Networks." " The online course is designed for coordinators and facilitators of established or potential communities as well as individuals with shared interests in agricultural and rural development.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. It is also part of another educational technology trend of MOOCs (massively open online courses) which are seeing more widespread adoption in higher education and have become more popular options for online learning.

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