The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

For example, rather than showcasing a North American hospital, it would be more valuable to share images of field hospitals in the designated location. These documents were complicated, and the information was previously shared through a long PowerPoint presentation. Needless to say, it was hard to learn from the old format!

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Effective Learning Strategy Course 162

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. You can ask people to share it anonymously. Share your story in the comments.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

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. One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another.

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Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Share the spotlight. Don’t just talk at them, interact!

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Training Train Italy Instructional Design 121

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. We did a brief share out where I asked people to snap if the target audience that was shared had some similarity or common characteristics to their target audience. One might think, oh no, this is impossible.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

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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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As you can see by looking at the WEF Instagram account, they recorded the answers to the questions during the meeting and have been sharing the Q/A on video here. I select guests who can answer a specific set of questions related to my lesson plan or expand on an example of a campaign or example that I share.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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Interaction Instructional Design Measure Badge 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. 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.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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. Please leave a comment.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session? The lead facilitator tasks might include: introducing a section or activity and why it important, offering instructions on how to complete the activity, facilitating full group instruction, and offering a synthesis of the discussion.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

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.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

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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Morocco Tunisia Reflection Conference 100

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. To share on Twitter? “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Measure, Test, Refine.

Social Media 101

Social Media Headline Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work. There were some excellent “burning questions” that folks shared about nonprofit training. Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning.

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Training Train Reflection Resource 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? What: The art of social instructional design.

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Channel Instruction Instructional Instructional Design 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It was great to watch as master like Pete do this and have him share some of his tricks of the trade that I was immediately able to put into practice the next day. Being able to do concept mapping on the wall with sticky notes is a core technique in a number of the methods that we practiced throughout the two days.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. I will also share my notes and reflections on other sessions at the conference in a second blog post. Time for reflection & sharing with our new friends & fellow #datanerds.

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Conference Data Exercise Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Solicit and share stories. Training Design. intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep! How To Get More Likes and Shares on Facebook – Based on Research.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training.

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Iowa Facilitation Teach San Antonio 50

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ask them to be ready to share and challenge their friends and give them some sample social media posts they can use. Social media is a minimally intrusive way to reach many people who can choose to tune in and share your message. Don’t try to do everything – concentrate on just a few things your organization excels at.

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Tips University Blackbaud Instructional Design 26

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. Does your nonprofit uses participatory design and facilitation at meetings or for trainings? Share in the comments. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He said that photo sharing is really social grooming. ” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets. They are making connections with “strangers” but sharing intimate details about their lives. Amy shared an awesome list of mobile resources.

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Professional Facilitation Journal San Jose 103

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. This gives an opportunity for the audience to share their story and their knowledge. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation.

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Program Reflection Instruction Instructional 78

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. There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. Ashely shared a mini case study about their Pacifier Campaign.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. In other words, to what end?

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Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

They enjoy sharing their ideas and perspectives openly with others. My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Reflection Arts Exercise Facilitation 64

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

C hallenge assumptions : “What do you think you will lose if you start sharing responsibility for the implementation process?”. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Inspire new ideas : “Can that be done in any other way?”. Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. What Powers Learning: Sharing Experiences and Stories With Peers. The Colorado Funders Association is doing this on its blog about philanthropy stories. ) The fun part of instructional design is embedding opportunities for this to happen.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

This was workshop was based on the knowledge shared on the WeAreMedia wiki over the past year using Dave Cormier's Community as the Curriculum approach. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. The hands-on education on actually using tools was most helpful."

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Reflection Wiki Instruction Instructional 56

Forj

MAY 25, 2021

The content you share within the LMS is dull and unengaging. Seek out both public reviews, testimonials, and case studies that the provider can share. Do they offer any additional professional services , such as instructional design, LMS administration, or even subject matter expert management?

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Associations eLearning Module Course 36

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Open-ended assessments are designed to have a learner share everything that they know about a specific topic. This includes the creation of next-generation online learning courses and instructional design services. Open-Ended Questions.

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69