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Virtual Volunteer Mobilization Strategies That Can Solve Nonprofits’ Challenges During COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Host a Zoom call for supporters to write letters, send emails, make scripted calls to elected officials like Swing Left is doing. Facilitate a virtual gathering for supporters to make masks together, with instructions on material to buy. Virtual solutions. In-person volunteers are disappearing for key activities (e.g., Urgent issues.

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How To Make A Back Channel Light Up Like Clark Griswald's House

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” He offered a simple framework for doing improvisation: notice, accept, and build. He also talked about the Improviser Mindset VS Scripted Mindset of leaders. Scripted mindsets expect everything to be perfect in theory, on paper, and in the real world – and when it isn’t they don’t know how to lead.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Surfing a tag stream (another word for a collection of content found in one screen using a tag) can also help you discover other people, s, and ideas. The timing errors make it more of a comedy than an instructional video, but you have to start somewhere. Here's the script. I hope you get a good laugh.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. and follow the instructions.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

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