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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation.

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Nonprofit Presenters: What are your best tips for preparing presentations?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. When I asked her what did you think would be most useful, she urged me to "open source my creative process." I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. Some immediate reflections on screencasting while it is fresh in my head. Next I'm going to try the free trial of Camtasia (Udell uses that one) and go back to fooling with Camstudio (the free open source tool).

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Peter Dietz reflects on the recent launch of Causes on Facebook and digital bumper stickers on Linked In and wonders how other fundraising platforms will respond? I do this all the time with annotated screen shots to provide "just in time" answers versus typing out instructions. Pulling my hair out! Any suggestions?

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking.

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6 Tips for Choosing Effective Nonprofit Website Visuals

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Reflect diversity. Reflect diversity. That’s why you should choose website images that accurately reflect the diversity of your organization and surrounding community. But remember that updating your imagery to reflect diversity should be just one element of your overarching inclusion strategy. Set quality standards.

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10+ Best eLearning Course Authoring Software Platforms

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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. Elucidat is known for creating training for large– at times global– employers, and that’s reflected in both its features and pricing.