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. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Training. Group Polling Techniques and Tools.

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JULY 9, 2020

Include the prizes/rewards in with the instructions so people are absolutely clear on what the requirements are. Polls: Polls can provide event managers, planners, and organizers with valuable information. Virtual event platforms, like Accelevents , have built-in polling options making this gamification option easy.

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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 ! Medium: Up to 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2012

Here’s some easy install instructions. Survey Apps: Doing polls and quick surveys are great ways to engage your audience and there are apps for that. Poll Daddy Polls does simple polls (yes / no, three choices).

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Consider incorporating interactive content into your blog, such as: Quizzes Polls Image galleries or slideshows Interactive maps Interactive videos Your nonprofit’s content management system (CMS) may offer built-in tools or add-ons that make it easier to create interactive content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

If you find one for your nonprofit, follow the instructions to claim and set up your page : If your nonprofit does not find an unclaimed LinkedIn Page, then start from scratch and create a new page by going to your LinkedIn homepage > select the “Work” icon in the upper right > Create a Company Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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? What: The art of social instructional design. Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

In contrast, mobile polling offers is a more structured form of interaction. Nelson Layag , my colleague at Compasspoint, shared how they were experimenting with text polls.

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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. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate. When you take a poll alone, there’s no suspense about how you voted. The game could instruct people to share voting stations and to use a brief discussion to come to a consensus vote. with the issue.

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MAY 7, 2009

Don't forget clear instructions about audio, whether using teleconference or VOIP. As participants log in, have a slide or whiteboard that clearly shows the instructions for the audio. using the chat window, responding to a poll, writing names on a whiteboard, and of course speaking via a teleconference or VOIP.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can incorporate fun polls and surveys to engage potential participants and appeal to your advocates. Post clear instructions that can be easily accessed at any time to ensure volunteers feel confident. It’s also an efficient way to send out important information to everyone all at once.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. For example, for the above exercise, I had the online audience take an online poll. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Implement things like virtual scavenger hunts, quizzes, and live polls. event reminders that include relevant information like login instructions and tech support contacts, post-event follow up emails that say thank you and includes a link to your post-event survey. Employ traditional media.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Poll your supporters so you can identify and segment personas, allowing you to better target your messaging on #GivingTuesday and all year long. Whether it is the first time your organization has thrown its hat into the ring or its preparing to top last year’s results, there’s always more your organization can learn and do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

m now adding a section suggesting that the moderator first poll his community using some of these tools, and to also monitor the back channel in real time, while not all conferences will embrace a back channel, it???s Recently, I wrote a post that has been passed around many conferences on how to successfully moderate a panel.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

Forms, Polls : Use forms and polls to collect information and gauge interest in new programs or issues. You can also direct visitors to your URL by instructing them to scan a QR code that you create with Guide by Cell's QR code generator. You can also integrate maps and social media features.

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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. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. When they are lined up by comfort level, I have been doing a quick poll to see where generations appear along the line. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation. I'm glad I put my first draft thoughts out there because I got some helpful clarifying comments.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 23, 2020

Implement things like virtual scavenger hunts, quizzes, and live polls. event reminders that include relevant information like login instructions and tech support contacts, post-event follow up emails that say thank you and includes a link to your post-event survey. Employ traditional media.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

When you email people to ask them to host a fundraiser, be sure to include straightforward instructions to help them through the process of setting up a fundraising post. Many organizations regularly poll their members about issues large and small. 5 – Give t heir o pinion . 5 – Give t heir o pinion .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. In between sections, I asked people to do a standing poll. I would have addressed this with some differentiated instruction in the small groups in the afternoon.). I also need written instructions for the steps.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

You’ve likely encountered it when you call a customer service number and are prompted with instructions to press numbers for different issues or service departments.) . At Radio Maria, the group also used the IVR system to establish an SMS poll, asking listeners what they wanted to hear more about on the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. One lesson I learned early on as a trainer is not to be afraid to flush your lesson plan (at least the instructional delivery part) down the toilet if you sense it isn't right. Here's the full room exercises. (1)

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Finally, you want to make sure you add interactive elements to your livestream, whether that’s by adding chat people can use to ask questions, or y breaking up your livestream with polls, quizzes, raffles, etc. that encourage participation. Make Sure Your Website is Branded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

You can also use polls and surveys for collecting input from your colleagues in advance, before the meeting, so that everyone has the same opportunity to share their ideas (they may not have it during the meeting). You can set this up in advance with a sign-up sheet, instructions, and referencing it at the beginning of the meeting.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

instructional video. Reader Polls. membership. Membership management. Micro-philanthropy. net2mashup. New releases. Non-profit Communications. Non-profit technology. NPC Carnival. online community. online storage. open source. podcasting. project management. project management. Social networking. spreadsheets. text to speech.

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Candid

AUGUST 4, 2022

If you Google it, you’ll see hundreds of articles offering advice that ranges from detailed instructions to more general speculation. . The tweets were a mix of our own content, including polls, threads, and links, and retweeted content. . Methodology .

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

For undergraduate instruction, you may get a break if you are in-state vs. out-of-state. Instant polls and quizzes. For all of the methodological differences, the core information offered at a webinar is largely the same as in-person instruction. Not to be forgotten among all of your options is private instruction.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

Similarly, you can use CTAs to streamline event registrations and provide clear instructions on other ways individuals can get involved. This could include discussion forums, live chat support, or interactive polls and surveys. You can also foster community engagement by incorporating interactive elements into your website.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Unlike typical events driven by in-person interaction, guests can be engaged with interactive polls, live shoutouts, and rotating break-out rooms ( Zoom and similar services offer all or most of these features in one). At the bottom of this post, we’ve also listed additional resources for setting up virtual events.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Unlike typical events driven by in-person interaction, guests can be engaged with interactive polls, live shoutouts, and rotating break-out rooms ( Zoom and similar services offer all or most of these features in one). Tutoring Art can even host Virtual Painting Fundraisers & Instructionals on your organization’s behalf.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’ve got some polls for you. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Most of you have answered, so we’re going to just end the poll. So I’m actually going to launch my second poll.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 12, 2020

When you select your events platform, be sure to look for one that has 24/7 live support as well as clearly documented instructions. Add fun and interactive features like live polling, gamification, virtual exhibit booths , and virtual or augmented reality. But, you shouldn’t just rely on your platform. Assemble your own support team.

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