Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The smoothest way to collect feedback is via collaborative cloud-based documents such as Google Docs or Slides, Slack, or other collaboration platforms. You can set this up in advance with a sign-up sheet, instructions, and referencing it at the beginning of the meeting. 8: Hybrid Meeting: Specific Facilitation Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. One of the things that is essential to good instruction (or presentation) is knowing your audience. It's a shift from sage on the stage instruction to honoring the learners for what they know. This has had an impact on the design of the cards, game instructions, etc.

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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

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

JUNE 9, 2010

Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. We set up a group in Slideshare to share and remix our slide presentations. (4)

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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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else. A couple of tips I picked up from observing Mary in action that will be particularly useful for trainings for participants where English isn’t their first language.

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

Below are some helpful tips. 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. Before the meeting. Make sure you understand bandwidth and voice limitations of participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. They help “air out the brain” and can help a tired group regain focus. I incorporate energizers into webinars (see slide 22) and virtual meetings. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2008

For example, I recently came across some recent Facebook demographics posted by Ben Lorica at O'Reilly ( Hat tip Ben Rigby). If you want some step-by-steps, follow the instructions on slide 3 ). Did you know that Facebook makes available demographic data through its advertising platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. So, you have to design for that. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If pivoting your conference to a virtual platform, consider these top 11 tips for hosting virtual conferences. Can they upload and connect their slide show? If you have a list of tips or tricks for getting the most out of your conference content, share it at this time. . Do they have proper audio and video setup?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

While it is a feature of many social sharing sites, often times those very sites do not provide beginner-friendly instructions on how to use tags effectively. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So we’ve got a true grant expert here to talk about some tips for you. . Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation and we will be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on today. Steven: bring up your slides. . I’m just going to make sure that I can see my slides.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2022

We’ll dive into 4 tips and tricks: Determine your auction type. Who will provide instructions, commentary, and announcements? When identifying the best items to procure, follow these top tips: Review your past auction’s performance. That leads us to our next tip! Start preparing early. Connect with local businesses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides. What worked? What didn't?

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If pivoting your conference to a virtual platform, consider these top 11 tips for hosting virtual conferences. Can they upload and connect their slide show? If you have a list of tips or tricks for getting the most out of your conference content, share it at this time. . Do they have proper audio and video setup?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 16, 2022

We’ll dive into 4 tips and tricks: Determine your auction type. Who will provide instructions, commentary, and announcements? When identifying the best items to procure, follow these top tips: Review your past auction’s performance. That leads us to our next tip! Start preparing early. Connect with local businesses.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 27, 2015

This completes the ‘ask-thank-report’ cycle that keeps it simple for any organization to follow (shout out to shampoo bottle instructions everywhere…). Our nonprofit do-gooders joined our instructors for hands-on training and got to mingle and learn innovative product tips and new practices from each other. Learn Labs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Check out our Microsoft Publisher: Reach Out to Donors piece for step-by-step instructions on how to get going quickly with the application. The Agenda Wizard allows organizations to structure presentations by adding agenda slides between topics that list speakers and agenda item durations. 6 Tips to Make Your Digital Story Stand Out.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

These platforms are what elevate a static PDF or slide show presentation to greater heights, creating courses that are engaging, interactive, and full of multimedia elements. You’ll want to keep the following tips in mind as well. Tips to Choose Course Authoring Software for Your Association. 10+ Top Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve been exploring how to integrate social media into instruction at face-to-face workshops and as well as webinars. The concept of before, during, and after is an important way to plot out your instruction, getting a good understanding of the audience, and modeling. Here’s some examples and tips.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

Although, I’ll give you a little tip, if you use the Q&A box, it might be easier for us to call out your question, just a little insider tip for you. Let’s see if we can get those slides going. You may have your slides up on your computer, but try hitting that share button. So you can use those.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Once they’re all sold, instruct everyone to pop their own balloon and see what they’ve won. They can include mud pits, mud crawls, mud slides, mud inflatables, and more. People will be lining up to learn some tips on how to react in the moment and learn the ins and outs of improv. Sell each balloon to supporters at a set price.

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