Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. 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. Pay attention to instructions or tips on different segments of the proposal form. Lori Jean Mantooth offers a summary.

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MARCH 27, 2012

When you post a call to action for people to share a message, be sure to include reference to how they can do so; or if you are asking people to create content themselves, be sure to provide instructions and examples to help them respond to your call. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ]. You know more about the cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The ways tables and chairs and the screen are placed in the room can work against your instructional style or support it. Here are the instructions. It never ceases to amaze how the set up of the room influences how we learn and how important that is to consider it in your design. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

I happen to find this photo in Jon Stahl's flickr stream (nice set of photos here ) Looks like the plone conference was also streamed into Second Life (more about it here ). The wiki has a good set of instructions on how to use tags to promote the conference. Live Stream! Originally uploaded by jonstahl.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. Today, I had the pleasure of doing a little planning for March, 2012 bootcamps in country with the strategic social media adviser from Jordan, Rami Al-Karmi and Heather Ramsey at IIE in San Francisco as well as Craig Newmark and Barry Newstead from Wikimedia. Stay tuned … Video and Storytelling.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr: Endlessstudio You and your cause have been using video to capture and share stories about the work you do and the change you're making, right? Detailed instructions on how to submit a film can be found on the “Submit your Entry” page of the Web site. Check out Lights. You should totally enter -- and win! We're rooting for you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I'm in the instructional/educational category. I don't expect to win given the amazing instructional vlogs that in that category and that I have used to learn how to vlog. So, now it is time to vote and suppport the nonprofit presence in this space! I'm a volunteer on the working group.) so you can find my work in wiki portofolio

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Photos: I rounded up the photos and screen captured important tweets and put them into Flickr here. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. Text Notes: Every session has volunteer note takers writing notes in a google document. Our session is here.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Flickr: Jeff_Werner Over in the Nonprofit Webmasters affinity group , Melissa Barry from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation started a great conversation. Here are some instructions on how to do that.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Flickr: Juushika Redgrave This past weekend saw the first offical day of fall which means we can all look forward to months of potted mums, candy corn, and annual conferences. This post by Beaconfire empowers you to assess your page weight with step-by-step instructions (and illustrations!) to put you on the road to recovery.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2009

Flickr Photo: zaklee Our web site is over two years old, and the botox just isn't hiding the. instructions). cracks anymore. Fortunately, the good folks at Beaconfire are helping us out with a. professional grade User Interfacelift, er, site redesign. We're going to do our best to document the process over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Flickr Photo by Key Lime Pie. If you look at the work plan, the content development part of the project is coming to a close (there's one module left to build on experimentation) and "instructional" part of the project is ramping up. mmm… community. I also see them eventually contributing to the wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

A series of short-tactical workshops at the 09NTC that included: Blogging , Podcasting , Video , LiveStreaming , and Flickr Bootcamp. When we started this project, there were only a handful of instructional resources geared for nonprofits on how to use social media strategically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Flickr Photo by Sebr. I’ve been immersed in writing about measurement and testing instructional frameworks this year. Over the holiday break, I read 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. This book is a gem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Flickr Photo by Beth. Get your camera ready and sniff out these instructions to enter our Dog Days of Summer photo contest. At Blogher Unconference, Leslie Madsen Brooks (who works with university faculty to help them make their instruction more thoughtful and who is also a dog lover ) put up a session called "Slow Blogging."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I met JD Lasica and in a jet-lagged state couldn't remember his name as I loaded his photo into my flickr account. I would love to see more instructional videos as well. During the edublogging session, he mentioned the new Learning Center at OurMedia. I came out of my busy work trip with a list of ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

The vast majority of nonprofits do not have Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr icons on their website, blog, and/or in their e-newsletter. The process to get your nonprofit started on Google+ depends upon whether you already have a Google/Gmail account for yourself or your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

Photo in Flickr. It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2006

It's taking place on Friday, October 20, 10:00 am PST - check the NTEN site for call-in instructions. While I wouldn't know an API from Ape if it stood right in front of me beat its chest, however, I have seen the results of open APIs in social media apps like Flickr. My preliminary thinking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

The vast majority of nonprofits do not have Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr icons on their website, blog, and/or in their e-newsletter. The process to get your nonprofit started on Google+ depends upon whether you already have a Google/Gmail account for yourself or your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Flickr Photo by qwrrty. For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

And, of course, if we are training less technically saavy users (like me) to use some tools that are not very intuitive, we need good how-to instructions. Or do we need to wait until the tools improve their interfaces? Groups Now the 63 responses to this post which provide even more tips and responses really adds to the original post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. I'm going to continue to play and reflect and learn about technology tools and how they can be used to support nonprofits and to create instructional material. But maybe I can be fast and neater?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2008

According to their site, the kits contain: How-To-Guide: Step-by-step instructions for planning and hosting your child’s party. Flickr photo credit: Birthday Cake 08 uploaded by Anne Norman. Kids Doing Good!" T-Shirt gift for the birthday boy or girl. Goodness Bags (qty 10), including "Kids Doing Good!" It's all about balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Flickr photo by Vidiot : Person Dressed Up Like ATM Machine Maddie Grant from Social Fish sent me a link to their training ' Buzz2009 Social Media for Associations " on July 9th in Washington, DC featuring presenters Guy Kawasaki and Andy Sernovitz. I asked how she did that and she pointed me over to these simple how-to instructions ). (I

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. For example, visitors were invited to add their own secrets to hampers in front of selected artworks and were instructed to write secrets or memories that those specific artworks evoked. Written instructions were not enough to compel them to do otherwise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. The CC licensed work on Flickr and CCmixter are wonderful resources. This is reminding of what Zittrain said two years ago at iLaw about source code and copyright: Source code: Source is a recipe, a set of instructions to get at something tasty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2005

Like your Flickr photos or your delicious bookmarks. I don't think I did the best job of making it very simple and easy which I'm working on now for our next meeting (step-by-step instructions with screen captures and simplified work processes). Isn't it wonderful how work avoidance sparks our creative juices.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2012

Instructions to employees to use disclaimers to identify thoughts as their own. An organization’s social media policy will overlap with existing policies that cover confidentiality, Internet and email use, trademarks, and employee/constituent privacy. Reminders to not speak to the media if not designated to do so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. All that sitting is not good for your health.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Flickr: kool_skatkat Last month, NTEN's Executive Director, Holly Ross, posted a provocative article on our blog: " Rebranding the Accidental Techie." " There emerged in this discussion thread a "case study," that I felt was both inspiring and instructive. pursuing other things."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Here's the flickr stream. It will be interesting to see if this achieved and there is a high likelihood since powerpoints (except for instructional sessions) have been banned. I'm at the live blogging tutorial and people are introducing themselves and I've noticed some great computer and hand bags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic.

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