Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment? 3) Start A New Journal: As I mentioned above, I keep an annual professional journal, part planner and part reflection tool. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Professional development is a great tool to combat these issues and allows all individuals to continue to thrive within their organization. Looking for nonprofit professional development opportunities? ASU Lodestar Center. The Nonprofit Management Institute is for you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Year in Review.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2022

Use technology with a face-to-face component. . Take the time to evaluate your current technology and determine how it can be used to further your campaign. Use technology with a face-to-face component. Fortunately, modern advocacy technology is aware of this potential shortcoming and has solutions. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Launched on May 5, 2003, LinkedIn is a social network for professionals. 51% of its users are college-educated , 20% are senior-level professionals, and the average salary for a LinkedIn user is $46,644 USD per year. LinkedIn launched Groups in 2005 as a means for professionals to connect with other professionals in a public forum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. Mobile Technology and Social Media and Real Time Learning. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. Carson , Ph.D.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

By leveraging low-code platforms, such as the Microsoft Power Platform, your staff members have a vast ecosystem of emerging technologies at their fingertips. Your “low-coders” or “citizen developers” can use technology to optimize the unique business processes they already know intimately.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

But, e-learning content development professionals will notice one crucial component missing from this list: Content. If we gave you a list of instructions with the following information—and only the following information—what would you do? Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. We could go on.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2011

Successful technology training has less to do with technical knowledge than with other abilities such as communication skills, patience, interpersonal skills, flexibility, and empathy towards learners struggling with new technologies. It is a satisfying job, both professionally and personally. Key Skills and Attributes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur.

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Qgiv

MARCH 27, 2023

For most nonprofit professionals, AI seems like a far-off fictional concept, bound to sci-fi adventures that we watch or read. AI is just another way technology can increase your fundraising potential. ChatGPT and fundraising may not be two things you’d think would go together, but the combination works better than you’d expect.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

A passionate technology-for-good advocate, Gerardo has made major contributions to Benetech’s social mission since he joined us over four years ago. He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs.

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

Some examples include technology upgrades and person hours or large items donated for our live auction which make us thousands of dollars in the auction for each item. Like the technology upgrades and professional services you mention. So it’s good to leave this to your professional finance staff or accountant. .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they’d need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. Computer Technologies Program in Berkeley, California, was one of our test sites. Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, 64-bit version, for all stations. Installation Problems.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Becoming a digital organization means infusing technology into your association’s ecosystem. It’s a professional way of saying bust the silos. In Bill’s eyes, professional growth has nothing to do with age or experience. “To Serving as an IT ambassador is a great professional development opportunity for more junior staff.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

When making a technology change, change management is a process of applying a structured approach to transition from the old system to the new system. With technology changes especially, people may start to worry that the new technology will threaten their jobs. Benefits of Change Management for Nonprofits.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 26, 2023

Offer a mix of experiences and tangible items, and consider hiring a professional auctioneer to keep the energy high and ensure that bids keep coming in. Display items attractively to encourage bidding , and consider using mobile bidding technology to make it easy for guests to place bids and monitor the progress of the auction.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. Assisting with the search for new learning technologies. Everything that goes into a learning business needs to be supported by staff, technology, and the external market. Environmental Scan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

federal law supports braille instruction. Many professionals argue that this decline in braille literacy has led to a literacy crisis in the American population of individuals who are blind. Accordingly, U.S. Data from the American Printing House for the Blind’s annual registry of legally blind students shows that in 2012 only 8.8%

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

You’ll get access to your own temporary workshop org and follow along with step-by-step instructions, guided LIVE by our adoption experts! Direct and Expand Your Program : Discover how to use technology to deliver your best programs and services and amplify your program impact. Reason #4: The Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If you are facilitating the meeting you need figure out logistics like scheduling, materials, and effective use of technology for virtual meetings. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links. Meeting design is more than just agenda planning or identifying topics.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Nonprofit Technology, and more! The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. So don't wait!

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Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

Follow Instructions Carefully. Make sure to follow instructions carefully. . Before completing your grant proposal, also check the instructions to make sure you meet all of the funder’s qualifications, as well as to see if there are any pre-application requirements. Detailed organizational budget. Letters of support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. What are the different types of online assessment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. 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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Global Giving

MAY 22, 2018

With GDPR coming into effect in the European Union and privacy scandals making headlines, many nonprofit professionals are concerned about data protection. If you don’t have a technology or legal background, where do you start? Always use systems in a professional manner and with good judgment. The process can be intimidating!

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Professional Drive. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

My favorite posts were interviews with authors from outside of the nonprofit sector, including Adam Grant , Give and Take and Eric Ries , Lean Start Up and coverage of the Social Innovation Summit: Future of Technology. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. 2014 will be the year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I didn't know anything about UNIX, discussion forums, email, or any of the technology used. How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

Wagner writes the Educational Technology and Life Blog - his tagline "Context-embedded, Inquiry-driven, and Socially-negotiated Learning." with art teachers on the issue of integrating digital tools into their instruction. So, I popped over to land on a post about burn out. and the lack of time. and the lack of time.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2020

Since they already used technology like gradebook and attendance platforms, they were able to quickly develop an online continuity plan to provide much-needed consistency with the in-person classroom experience.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Now may be the golden age of nonprofit professional development. Evolving technology, accelerated by a public health crisis, has opened more education and training options at a lower cost and at a wider range of levels and subjects than ever before. . This is the most traditional method of nonprofit professional development.

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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. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 25, 2020

Yes, people attend conferences and trade shows in order to learn and grow their skill set, but they also attend to network with other industry professionals. Virtual attendees can see benefits as well! Hold Pre-event Sessions. Similar to creating a guide, consider inviting each virtual attendee to a pre-event meetup or networking session. .

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