Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. Rachel Weidinger, UpWell. Use abundance as frame.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. An activity where learners must demonstrate understanding of the steps followed by feedback about their choices can help change a practice. Design a course that targets that change. By Guest Contributor, Amy Morrisey , Artisan E-Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. Somewhat skeptical about the value of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate. This gives the students an opportunity to interact with professionals and learn more about how what we cover in class is applied in the real world. Nothing like first-person accounts. They can follow up with questions on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. I like to use a rock band metaphor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. But, it isn’t just about learning new techniques. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

How about you? During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Happy New Year ! I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Relationships, feelings and personal security are important to Amiable Style people. They are often seen by others as highly efficient and not concerned about relationships or feelings. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks to express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have debate get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Essentially this all about carefully considering what people want, and planning to communicate with them in a way that is intended to meet that need. In this HBR article about asking empowering questions, the benefits are clear: An empowering question does more than convey respect for the person to whom it’s posed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

Last week I attended the DoGoodData Conference in Chicago where I learned an incredible amount about the human side of data – themes like data visualization, data informed culture, using data for impact, and more. The last step was to have each person write an email to their “future self” using futureme.org. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. This may include some personal exploration like setting up their profile on social networking site or even a blog. Comfort Levels. They've done some amount of experimentation. Also, the seating is fixed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. We did this on Day 1.

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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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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

You’ve had to adjust to this pandemic-era lifestyle in both your personal and working life— and do so quickly. In a course about soliciting donations over the phone, don’t have the donor say “Hello. In this scenario, you’ll want to make creative and engaging design decisions to keep her attention.

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Gyrus

JULY 14, 2016

I personally am out of poké balls and am unable to join in on the fun at current moment… perhaps I’ll take a lunch time walk down to the nearest poké stop. There are incredible possibilities surrounding augmented reality and us as an industry should be exciting about the potential it holds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

(see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. If we can be more intentional and disciplined in our experimentation, that's how we gain insights about effective social media use. What are your thoughts?

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Augmented and Virtual Reality: Everyone is appropriately excited about the idea of overlaying educational graphics on the real world (augmented reality) or creating truly immersive virtual worlds (virtual reality). Enough providers are now doing it that it’s talked about enough to be at the peak of inflated expectations.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. These features allow you and your members to have a comprehensive view of each individual’s personal achievement.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

When done correctly, these assessments both provide data about your members and help those members reach greater heights in their continuing education efforts. A collaborative assessment involves learners completing a task alongside their peers and receiving feedback on their personal efforts within the group. Open-Ended Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. It isn’t about content, although that is important. It resonated. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge. The learning objectives were: make decisions about how to effectively integrate social media into organization's overall web communications plan. to take in two of the technical topics."

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Both of which occur in-person in an instructor-led format. But, just because your current in-person training efforts are technically working, that doesn’t mean that they’re the best solution for your overall organization, staff members, and volunteers alike. A yearly refresher course for staff members. These strategies aren’t uncommon.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

And, we can’t forget one of the biggest benefits—online training courses replace in-person, instructor-led courses and all of a sudden, your learning and development team has significantly more time on its hands for other efforts. . So, you need to figure out how to get all of them on your side. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We learned about the country’s history, political complexity, religions, people, and ancient and contemporary life. So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? This could mean a fully open-source environment, a desktop environment where only one person can edit the course at a time, or a cloud-based environment for collaborative authoring. The type of authoring environment that will benefit your team’s process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. Since not every person in the cohort could travel to Washington, DC, we had virtual participants who joined us via phone and the webinar software.

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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. How do you define failure for our organization or program?

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