Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Colorado Project. Some Reflections. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. Real-Time networked learning is incorporating social media into your instruction – before, during, and after. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you? My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects. The site is organization into three different process areas: Process Analysis : Let’s you analyze a process or problem to find ways to simplify or understand a problem. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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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. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. Happy New Year ! How about you? I write down stuff I won’t do, a “no thanks” list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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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. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

He talks about the powerful combination of social media and peer learning. His post reflects on his years of “learning in action” on his instructional practice of peer-to-peer, global learning via social web. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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MARCH 2, 2011

Beirut Diary: I’m in Beirut for the week as part of The E-Mediat project , a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. The E-Mediat project is sponsored by MEPI, US Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Initiative and was created in response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement of Civil Society 2.0.

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JULY 24, 2012

As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change. intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I would bring along transparencies or overlays for the overhead project that would show a screenshot and a tape cassette player with a recording of a modem handshake (remember those?). And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. This was circa 1997.

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DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

Here's a few reflections from people in the room. " What has been going on here is experimentation to understand the possibilities and potential of virtual worlds as an educational , instructional , therapeutic , marketing , and/or collaboration medium. You're not going to have perfection when it is a experiment!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. I also need written instructions for the steps. Why It is Important ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. How to best encourage people to engage in an online project/group that is discussing a physical location in the location itself using a mobile phone?

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JULY 20, 2007

And, now for some reflections on the screencasting process. Maybe I need to hone my screencasting workshop and instructional materials. Anyway, I've discovered some techniques in making the process a bit more efficient. You can learn more about the partnership at the Salesforce.com Foundation site and the NTEN web site.

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

The next technique that I am exploring in my screencasting/videocasting skill set is the addition of music. Why add KB or MB to the file size when my content instructional. Since I'm mostly creating instructional video, I have to ask myself - how much does this enhance the learning or ability to retain?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Storytelling techniques Craft these stories with care, using narrative techniques that engage the emotions of your readers. Follow the instructions in this blog to position your donors as the heroes of this story and inspire action! Describe upcoming projects and how donors can contribute to their success.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

The show coupled an uncomfortable ex-evangelical sharing deceitful techniques he had engaged in with a minister named Jim Henderson talking about " doable evangelism ," a practice that doesn't rely on what he deemed "acting like jerks." Two years ago, my dad and I embarked on a podcast project called Museum Hater. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2008

And this week, I had an aha moment about a designed listening technique: conversations with computers. The fabulous Storycorps project partially sidesteps these problems by requiring participants to bring their own conversation partner to the booths in which they record life stories. The problems are scale and comfort.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Xperience Design Project. Xperience Design Project. The Xperience Design Project (XDP) is a two-day, business-focused experience for association professionals and partners. You’ll leave feeling motivated and ready to change the quality of instruction in your school district or community! Fundraising & Grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

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. There is a write-up of the project here. Maybe it is more like moment capture. nouns, etc.

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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. Objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

This post reflections on the training design as well as my content notes. I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. I’ll look forward to read any reflections from Alan on how this worked. Social Learning In Webinars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. What social disparities do you most want to remedy?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. Mindfulness and Reflection – How to use these techniques to help keep your focus. I stopped sleeping with my mobile phone and built in more time for morning reflection.

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