Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

We also discussed use cases, benefits, limitations, adoptions, and lots of practical tips. Below is my fully human-generated reflection. One metaphor is to think of the AI as an intern that you need to clearly communicate instructions to and then check their work and revise.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Whether you’re reaching out to build issue awareness, share important news, or raise money for your organization, incorporating these best practices into your email marketing campaigns can help your emails reach your target audiences and keep them engaged with your mission. . Make it Easy for Your Supporters to Get Information From You.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 19, 2022

Online Auction Website Software Online Auction Site Best Practices Online Auction Website Ideas. Online Auction Site Best Practices. Building an engaging website for your auction is easy if you stick to a few essential best practices. Keep instructions clear and concise. Online Auction Website Software. Request a demo.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This could be practice, memorization, motivation, or something else. An activity where learners must demonstrate understanding of the steps followed by feedback about their choices can help change a practice. Examples, questions, and scenarios that reflect what the learner will encounter. It’s a balancing act! We could go on.

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John Kenyon

APRIL 11, 2024

This training data reflects the racial biases, stereotypes, and disproportionate perspectives of the world where the data comes from. Examples in Practice Let’s say your nonprofit wants to use an LLM to help field questions on your website’s chatbot. How can we navigate this tension of racial bias in AI/LLMs?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As Candid moves to more proactively promote equity in the broader social sector, we also continue to reflect on what our own role might be in supporting that effort. Candid’s courses are led by our team of expert trainers who deliver high-quality content to equip participants with actionable takeaways and practical tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Three Ways to Think About Content. Think Beyond Presenters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

UPDATED 2/26/12: Please note that the best practices listed below are a work in progress and are updated regularly. To be alerted of when new best practices are posted, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Over time and through implementing the best practices listed below and those yet to come, you will find your Google+ voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. ask, “How have sales been going?”.

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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

APRIL 8, 2020

It is a good idea to get a few people together on a call to practice doing it before you host your first meeting with zoom Breakout Rooms. You could give the instructions ahead time and ask people to bring an objective meeting they want to share that represents their connection to your nonprofit (a good exercise for board members). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Her photoshop skills were used in service of the star wars theme, including adding a red hat to Yoda. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. What content, lines, or ideas resonated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. I got to learn a few new tricks and continued to polish approaches already in my toolbox. Movement can really help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Formative Evaluation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. Additionally, they may have reached a point in their lives where they are reflecting on their legacy and the impact they want to leave behind. Provide clear instructions. We’re all aging, right? What age group should you target?

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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. Where do you get the time to put some of what you've learned into practice? Growing My Instructional Chops. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Some Reflections. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. In addition, we had expert knowledge in the room from JD Lasica, Paul Lamb.

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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. 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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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 curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Offer customized swag: Create personalized swag bags or merchandise that reflect the values and interests of different age groups. Here are some best practices to make sure you get this valuable data: Streamline guest registration : Streamline the check-in process by using a well-designed registration form or a digital sign-up platform.

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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. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

In Part 1 of this fascinating and instructional book, author and Oxford University professor, Paulo Savaget , explains what workarounds are and how to come up with them. And, then in Part 2, he digs into how to cultivate a workaround attitude and mindset, including how to reflect on the ways you typically see, judge, and approach obstacles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Last week was the first week of our workshop as laboratory and Brownyn offered her meta reflections here and Sus Nyrop shared her thoughts here and Nancy White here. The second week of the workshop started last week and it is a week of "field trips" to existing communities of practice. May not translate to other communities.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. Rember to review and refine these tasks, Monitor the AI’s performance, and fine-tune instructions as needed to improve results. Adjust prompt instructions or model as needed. could help.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

Firstly, it has the capacity to write emails that are specifically designed to engage your community, incorporating best practices picked up from its deep learning. There are a few best practices that you should know to help you guide ChatGPT into creating the content that you want. ChatGPT can’t generate effective emails on its own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

David Wilcox wrote his reflections on our workshop in Birmingham two weeks ago while stuck on a train enroute back to London. I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. He's spot on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. 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. Always good to leave time for Q/A at the end for those).

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

You may be tempted to just change your bylaws to reflect how the Board is currently operating, but you shouldn’t do that. Make notes of any requirements outlined for what your bylaws should include and any instructions provided for updating bylaws. This is normal as Boards find their groove and get used to working together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. How does the room set up support or fight your instructional design? I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. Enter micro-learning, resources that can be quickly read, viewed, or consumed and take only ten minutes or less.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Reflective Practice. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. I know in my own practice have made a conscious effort to go into any workshop with a goal practicing these. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

To ensure your data stays updated, accurate, and well-organized, it’s key to practice good data hygiene habits. The best, most effective way to keep your data free of clutter and ensure reports accurately reflect your organization’s current standing is to commit to reviewing your data on a regular basis.

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