Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. Feng Shui of Good Training. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

One design important instructional principle for trainings and meetings, whether online or face-to-face, is to start off with a fun way to ease into the work. You have a couple of provocative questions related to the topic you will be discussing or training on and have people line up as to whether they agree or disagree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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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. These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. In other words, to what end? Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings. Here are the techniques: Meeting Ritual: A Moment of Quiet: Many people who work at nonprofits are often in many meetings, often scheduled back-to-back, everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. Nothing like first-person accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As with face-to-face training, how many participants per breakout room depends on the task they will do together, how much time is needed to complete the task, and time for a full group report out. A simple technique is to put 2 or 3 people in a room and have share name, organization, and an icebreaker question.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. There are three major aspects of managing your volunteers: recruitment, training, and stewardship. The average volunteer retention rate is around 65%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. But applying it on your own – unless you are an analytics genius – can be difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Training Design' Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Also, some new types of questions about training and education approaches for nonprofits and specific tips for under-resourced nonprofits. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques. Comfort Levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. 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

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Opening Exercise.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Additional training to individuals can also assist in expanding their knowledge on certain subjects that may be beneficial to them in the future. ASU Lodestar Center. In today’s world, job roles are constantly changing and new challenges arise in the workplace.

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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

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

Images are better than words for instructional aids. The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. One technique described that I use often is “share pairs,” it makes people get it up, take that body break, and check in with someone. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. You can also develop your training materials for your volunteers that are tailored to your volunteers’ learning preferences to ease the learning curve. Traditional AI encompasses rule-based programs that are programmed to perform specific tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. (Here’s the posts from Day 1 and Day 2 ). Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Train callers on matching gifts. Having a team of well-trained callers is the secret to any successful phonathon campaign. We suggest that you: Identify any knowledge gaps and situations where additional training is needed. Train callers on matching gifts. Create a standardized script. Practice with mock calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

the Director of Education to understand if the curriculum addressed the needs of students and how to shift dance instruction to a virtual setting. Strategy: communication, program delivery, training, and COVID-19 planning for virtual and in-person studio classes. teaching artists who directly interacted with students.

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Gyrus

MAY 3, 2016

AI – Artificial Intelligence : A variety of techniques built in the LMS system that replicates the role of a human tutor/instructor, effectively guiding and coaching the learners through the content. and can be integrated with multiple software systems including LMS. through the same platform. The post Buying an LMS?

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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

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. 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.

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JULY 21, 2016

This can include advanced sales techniques, introductions to hidden product features, and techniques to hone their craft dependent on their job title and responsibilities. External Education Incentives – Some organizations are big on continuing education.

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