Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Note from Beth: Blocking out time for your nonprofit’s staff to do planning and work on areas like organizational culture is essential for success. When is the last time your organization held a staff retreat? Pre-work would prime me for the learning objectives. About the Distributive Learning Process.

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Gyrus

MAY 31, 2016

Struggling with gaps in talent and skills, organizations are starting to invest more heavily in technologies to predict their training requirements, understand their learners and to create exciting ways to deliver training and learning to their employees.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 9, 2016

A lot of times in bustling start-ups and small business environments, there is an underlying sentiment, along the lines of “I don’t care how you do it, just get it done.” Skill-Gaps. Though just being around successful people on the job can permeate positive skill building. Onboarding. Engaging Users.

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Forj

AUGUST 24, 2017

In the Learning & Development world there has been a lot of buzz recently around content curation and the skills associated with being a curator. Most of this activity has been the domain of the membership department and the delivery is almost always on the “informal learning” side of the continuum.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

The best way to ready ourselves for this shifting environment is Continuous Learning. Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Why should I want to participate in this learning exercise? One of the key features of Mobile Learning is the briefness of the media. Due to competing elements on the phone and how much time people on the go have in between events, the content is forced to be concise.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 20, 2019

Salesforce Process Builder saves valuable staff time by automating complex business processes. In Salesforce’s 1-1-1 program, the company donates 1 percent of its time, 1 percent of its product, and 1 percent of its money to support nonprofits. Lots of events offering learning opportunities. Point and click process automation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design. I most often have to hack the space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

What You Get: Knowledge and skills from top experts and leaders in nonprofit technology. No hotel or travel costs, time on airplanes, etc. Affordable professional development in an interactive learning environment. They Just Won't Listen to Reason (Chapter on Change Management with Dahna Goldstein. Keynotes from Ami Dar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot.

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Gyrus

JUNE 23, 2016

Want to deploy and maintain the e-learnings that you have spent so much time and effort to develop? Do you want to be able to create quality actionable e-learnings? Then you’re in the market for a Learning Management System (LMS). LMS’s are an essential tool for all e-learning professionals.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

These include: Learner-Driven Recommendations: The LXP will provide course recommendations to help learners forge the best learning path for their individual experiences. Social and Community-Based Learning: The experience within an LXP occurs through both formal and informal learning. Driven by the learner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

" There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. New learning environment puts games at the center. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. This is a time pressure question!

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

Want to deploy and maintain the e-learning that you have spent so much time and effort to develop? Do you want to be able to create quality actionable e-learnings? Then you’re in the market for a Learning Management System (LMS). LMS’s are an essential tool for all e-learning professionals. Any guesses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

local time). These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. Learning is happening outside of school and it needs to be understood better. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nonprofit tech projects have trouble getting off the ground because they rarely have the consistent funding needed to make the project the full time focus of an experienced developer team. Ultimately, tech platforms require too much time and care to be just a side-project for most nonprofits. It costs millions to build a tech platform.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Gyrus

APRIL 21, 2016

Employees are more relaxed and eager in an informal learning setting and they readily commit to learning a new skill without worrying about exams or evaluations. However, the accuracy of learning material as well as the learners’ understanding cannot be assessed in an informal learning setting.

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Gyrus

JULY 19, 2016

Microlearning is a brief (less than 5 minute) learning component with a focus on a very particular learning object (specifically a skill, behavior, or compliance piece). Picture if you will an eLearning that takes an hour of your employees’ time. To start the microlearning discussion we must first define what it is.

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Gyrus

APRIL 3, 2018

The Greek Philosopher, Heraclitus, was recorded multiple times for saying “Change is the only constant in life.” ” In the learning world, perhaps more now than ever, this position has never ringed truer. Measuring the effectiveness of current offerings is vital in any learning environment.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

There was a time in the very recent past that having a room of electric typewriters, a handful of televisions or even (gasp!) a single computer running basic DOS for an entire school was considered the very cutting edge of the tech-enhanced learning environment. But the times how they have changed.

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