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

OCTOBER 1, 2008

tags: nonprofits socialmedia ). I wrote about some specific instructional techniques you can use here and here. Social Media: Getting the Word Out in the New Information Age View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. He has a write up of his process and notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. I've taught webinars and workshops on how to design and deliver effective training sessions and have written a few blog posts on training and presentation techniques. Tags: powerpoint. Next month will include NTEN's NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

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. Tags: Training Design. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Refining Real-Time Networked Learning.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 8, 2010

Writing grants is one of the most popular fundraising techniques for nonprofit organizations. Follow a foundation’s request submission instructions! Writing grants is one of the most popular fundraising techniques for nonprofit organizations. Follow a foundation’s request submission instructions!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I think it is really important to have a sand box where you can practice using the tools or techniques of working in a networked way in a low risk, safe environment. And, the sand box needs to be more play than formal instruction. Tags: scholar working wikily. And, sand boxes are social. How do you encourage serendipty?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

When we started this project, there were only a handful of instructional resources geared for nonprofits on how to use social media strategically. What are some tips and techniques? Tags: wearemedia. We've been able to track some of the remixes - that is those who kindly let us know about it and gave us attribution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

tags: arts ). That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also need written instructions for the steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I asked how she did that and she pointed me over to these simple how-to instructions ). We've placed relationships as an outcome or result using the techniques of listening, learning, reflection, micro-planning, and adapting. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. Tags: Books.

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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. Tags: training materials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I was pleased with workshop, even though it was the first time and that is always difficult because instruction improves with feedback from learners. The content on the wiki has now organized into an instructional format as a two-day face-to-face workshop. Tags: wearemedia training materials technology training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2005

In reading Marshall's excellent reflection about teaching RSS techniques , I came across a comment from Nick pointing to some curriculum he is developing and teaching to faculty on using RSS for their research work. Technorati Tags: RSS , instruction , teaching , learning , adoption , training , effectiveness , nptech , net2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

But one of the most important lessons is this: once you’ve figured out how to tap the surplus in a way that people care about, others can replicate your technique, over and over, around the world.&#. Tags: Books. You don’t need fancy computers to harness cognitive surplus; simple phones are enough. “Start small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I also discovered CCMixter and where you search for music by tag. I've resisted adding music for three stupid reasons: 1. Technical Skills and Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2005

Okay, enough about technique. Now, I'm ready to read the instructions. Technorati Tags: blogher What I liked about Lisa's video is that she put herself in front of the camera and just spoke so eloquently. I also like the titles that appear while the video was playing to insert thoughts she didn't vocalize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2005

He was very kind enough to send me the instructions which I am posting for myself in case I need them again. It involves all our ways of analyzing the meaning of the connections we make -- analogy, symbol, story, pun, visualizing, and other techniques for connecting one thing to other things. Technorati Tag: nptech.

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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." Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion comfort visitors. What do you think?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to Wikipedia, clickjacking is " a malicious technique of tricking Web users into revealing confidential information or taking control of their computer while clicking on seemingly innocuous Web pages. After logging in for the first time, they are instructed to change their temporary password.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I May need to get some technical instructions on how to convert the file formats or use a service like hipcast. One of the points is a sort of "web the media" take.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Consider what tools and techniques, digital or otherwise, can be used to maximize their interaction with the in-room attendees. You can set this up in advance with a sign-up sheet, instructions, and referencing it at the beginning of the meeting. In some cases, you may also need to have people in the room wear name tags.

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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. I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. Tags as a metric. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Teens are perceived as an audience that is particularly disaffected and hard to reach, and institutions are continually seeking new techniques that might connect them to core content experiences. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 The first of these reasons is practical. The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

They provide clear instructions and rules for how to succeed, better feedback on how well you are doing, better community with which to experience the game, and induce more intense emotions of personal pride and accomplishment (fiero!). Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out game. What about learning?" Happy playing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials.

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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. This is what separates Daisy from all the instructional graphics and "What do YOU thinks?" Tags: usercontent interactives. Finding great questions to ask can help. Most of all, you need great listeners. we can put on screens.

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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. Social Learning In Webinars. Last year, Alan invited [.].

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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. 6: Leverage the power of social proofing.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 I want that for museums. That’s why they call it goodwill.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2005

Instead, they rely on informal on-the-job instruction, where as one user of our software told us "I try to spend about a half hour with a new employee before turning him loose on the system." There are two such techniques we've found particularly useful. Technorati Tags: nptech , tech_planning

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. Tags: participatory museum. What conditions did I miss?

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