Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

It also helps participants take risks in trying new techniques because they have the support of their peers. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits. My Theme for the Year: Learning. My Three Words.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Engage your supporters – tell them you have something special coming for #GivingTuesday. How to plan for #GivingTuesday throughout the year: Solidify your brand (and not just your logo) – Make sure you are communicating your mission, values, vision and impact in an authentic way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Anyone can be a designer! These are methods for developing solutions (any type) in service of people. By applying this approach to program development or strategy, your nonprofit can get more impactful results. This may be mean rapid prototyping as well as front-end research. Round Robin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Organizations must support staffs’ self-care efforts through clearly articulate values, policies, and programs. And, to sustain happy, healthy ways of working in nonprofits, the burden can’t totally rest on the backs of individuals.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Instructional Design Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Communications have more impact. Increase reach on social media channels. Cultivate “super fans”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

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. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

This task is made even harder if your CME learning management system ( CME LMS ), the platform that delivers eLearning to your association’s members, fails to support you in the effort. The goal of this piece is to ensure that the next CME LMS you invest in supports your organization effectively. Accessible Content Delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

However, the ability to provide these assessments is largely dependent on the association LMS you choose — so, you’ll want to choose carefully to ensure your solution can support proctored exams. The idea here is that your LMS data can impact much more than your learning business alone, but your association as a whole.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Let’s walk through the benefits of using technology in your training strategy and how you can create e-learning courses that make an impact. With e-learning, you don’t need to organize an in-person event and have a staff member on-hand to lead it—you can simply email course access each time a new supporter wants to join your ranks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

More recently, with support from the Packard Foundation, I’ve been working on an Emerging Leadership Development project with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies. We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. The skill of writing good headlines is an important one to develop!

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Through our experience working with a number of unique organizations, we’ve seen firsthand how the right course authoring tools can impact learning offerings. The level of support that the software provider offers. Multi-language support to translate and localize content.

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