Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. How can we get people to talk to us? Do you want people to click? Nudge people to do something. To share on Twitter?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Nonprofit staff training has evolved to meet the new challenges your team is facing. If you’ve caught the news at any point in the last year, you know that the trending topics are different than anything we’ve encountered before. Often times, people soliciting donations aren’t warmly welcomed. Evolutions in Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%? ” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. We played with 6 groups of about 7 people each. As the first of these groups presented their strategy, the people in the second group started laughing—they had made exactly the same choices. (Reflections coming soon!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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