Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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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. Best of all, there’s nothing like peer to peer support in this effort to keep inspired. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge.

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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 Three Words.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Advocacy helps you recruit new committed supporters and keep your existing supporters engaged. Before this, he was an Instructional Designer and Editor at Element K, a provider of learning solutions for businesses and nonprofits. Online advocacy is the cornerstone of online fundraising strategy for many nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2019

Everyone knows that social media has a massive impact on today’s culture, so how can social good organizations effectively leverage it to engage supporters? What does your organization need to do to execute an effective social media strategy? What benchmarks should you be tracking your performance against?

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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. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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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. How can we turn our fans that we engage with on social media into financial supporters of our organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

It is humbling when you actually get feedback from the people you are designing something for. While I doubt that I will ever have to do design interfaces for a new car radio, the process was a stark reminder to me as an instructional designer to always get empathy from students in the course design process.

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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. The Facebook daily check-ins in-between our calls are to provide support and facilitate discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Published the Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Engage your supporters – tell them you have something special coming for #GivingTuesday. Poll your supporters so you can identify and segment personas, allowing you to better target your messaging on #GivingTuesday and all year long. Download Blackbaud’s free comprehensive #GivingTuesday toolkit.

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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. Through online diaries and blogs, WildlifeDirect brings supporters and conservationists together and enables individual donors around the world to communicate directly with the people that they are funding.

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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. Increase reach on social media channels. Cultivate “super fans”. Increase engagement on social channels.

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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

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. Support a fun icebreake r. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies.

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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. We can put shoulder-to-shoulder learning on steriods by integrating the use of social media to support learning. Growing My Instructional Chops.

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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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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. Or, do they warn you away from others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He talked about the trend of :”Networked Individualism” that while networks – having both loose and strong ties can give you what you need – information, financial resources, and support – in a networked world you have to work harder than in a “tight knit world.” Instructional Design Notes.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It’s still in the realm of custom content development – not something you can assign to your staff instructional designers – but it’s cheaper to do. Finally, you might discover that your learning technology isn’t designed to support the subscription model – it kind of forces you into the on-demand model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another.

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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. This includes the creation of next-generation online learning courses and instructional design services.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Consider chatting with individual board members before the meeting to gain their support—especially if they’re tech-savvy. They’ll bring technical course authoring and instructional design expertise to the table, so you’ll walk away with a course that teaches your staff members or volunteers to do their jobs better. .

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

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. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2020

An email welcome series is different from a thank-you email, a newsletter, or other types of ordinary supporter email communications. Statistics about how supporters interact with welcome series. Whether different types of supporters need different welcome emails. Topics Discussed in This Episode: What a welcome series is.

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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.

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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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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

The level of support that the software provider offers. Some providers maintain comprehensive online resources to help you make the most of their solutions alongside dedicated technical support. Multi-language support to translate and localize content. The functionality necessary to achieve your learning objectives.

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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. It is no longer a linear journey up a ladder or pyramid.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses. Would it work without full-time staff support?

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