Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate. For each of the topics we cover in the class, students are assigned reading and I do a brief presentation of examples, frameworks and open it up for discussion. They also have to present their ideas to the whole class and do a brief write up.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

Don’t you hate when you get out of a conference session feeling all pumped about an idea, but by the time you get back to your workplace you realize that you have no idea how to do the thing you were so excited about?

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AUGUST 1, 2017

I recently wrote about my experiences presenting at FocusOn Learning 2017 (you can read about them here ). Part of my presentation pertained to branching scenarios, online simulations in which learners decide how to proceed in problem solving. One educational benefit that I tend to gloss over is engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

tackling critical issues that are shaping the present and future of our country and our rights. I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy.

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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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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. These documents were complicated, and the information was previously shared through a long PowerPoint presentation. Guest Contributor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. So, I ask for volunteers who love leading meetings and making brief presentations. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

That means you have approximately 3 hours and the whole time should not be spent lecturing with a PowerPoint deck! I believe that workshops are an opportunity for nonprofit staffers to have some “thinking time” — to reflect and think about how the content applies to their specific situation.

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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. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. A bonus delivery tip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

One of my main projects this past year, and continuing into 2015 was to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. To be successful as a facilitator in a peer learning isn’t about subject matter expertise, although having that knowledge helps.

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APRIL 22, 2021

To give you insight into what this might look like in action, let’s walk through the three steps that a Web Courseworks consultant would complete when consulting with your team about your learning business in general. To learn more about Web Courseworks’ professional services, contact our team today. Organizational Readiness.

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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. If you look at the replies , you can see that it also got about 30 @replies, including replies where participants played the game.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2017

How about you? In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment? The themes are less about exploring something new, but to commit to continuous learning and improvement. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. It's a live chat during a workshop or presentation and these days, it mostly taking place on Twitter. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. What: The art of social instructional design.

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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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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

About the presenters: George Ford, Project Manager for Online Subscription Services, The Foundation Center George Ford has been with the Foundation Center since March 2004, where he currently serves as Product Manager for Online Subscription Services including Foundation Directory Online.

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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. In my workshop design, I always include a “learning artifact” such as a “strategy poster” and time in the workshop for participants to present.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter. 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. The Audience As Part of the Presentation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits. Comfort Levels. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

How about you? I also facilitated sessions on healthy and productive online and offline meetings for Guide Star, including a sessions about walking meetings at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference and Online Community Managers Meetup. Happy New Year ! Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. 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. For example, during the lab session, we got a terrific question about bilingual Fan Pages on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2006

Reminds of something I read today about learning design and games. It came from Richard Van Eck's presentation "An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning." On pages 20-22 of the mega huge powerpoint bullet points [link] Was Gagne's Nine Events and how games embody them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I’m doing a session for the NW Philanthropy and have been asked to talk a little about how to design peer learning and trainings for nonprofits. Having trained nonprofits on every continent of the world (except Antarctica), I had a great laboratory to develop my instructional design and delivery skills. One of the biggest challenges is (..)

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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. You can present the key points in the history of developing the process out of order, and ask the learner to sequence them in the correct order. Detail a process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We distributed the cards and had participants pair up with peers to learn more about their successes. The last section of the workshop was focused on having participants start thinking about their work plan for the coming year. Buddy Media: Twitter Optimization. How To Get More Likes and Shares on Facebook – Based on Research.

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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

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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JULY 14, 2021

It hosts your courses and discussion forums, empowers learners to track their progress, and tracks all of the data about your programming. They’ve taken a job or signed up to give their time with your organization for one guiding reason—they’re passionate about your cause. You could create a course about the history of your nonprofit.

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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. All of them did it in less than the half time provided. I’ve found that adding this constraint to group report outs avoids getting bogged down with long report outs.

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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. the presentation and handouts can be downloaded here and more on the game as originally conceived and developed by Beth and David Wilcox is here). We played with 6 groups of about 7 people each. (Reflections coming soon!)

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

But, what about the software used to bring those courses to life? Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners.

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