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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between.

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To Get Close to Members, Follow MarTech Trends

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There is plenty of advice out there, and most leaders have the management skills to retool organizational structures for better communication and greater agility. Instructions, such as a style guide and taxonomies, are part of this process. Of the four bullets listed above, the last two seem to be the most challenging.

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Ways To Use Zoom Breakout Rooms To Increase Meeting Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). . Peer Assist: There are many ways to structure a peer assist where participants listen to each other’s challenges and provide advice.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links. Check out their online platform, Luma Workplace , where you can read articles, download templates, and watch instructional videos. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Using OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Nonprofit Email Communications (with Examples)

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and learns not only about the content of that data but also how the words and phrases in it have been structured. For more best practices and examples, take a look at our instructional guide for prompting ChatGPT. Content or Outline When asking ChatGPT to generate an outline, it helps to direct the structure.

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Four Nonprofit Web Accessibility Best Practices for 2022

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Understandable: Your website content should be structured in a way that’s easy to understand, in a logical and chronological order. Robust and Easily Interpreted: The back-end code of your website should be structured clearly and logically to ensure that browsers and assistive devices can easily navigate it. Clean up forms.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? How do let go and allow for emergence?

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