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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. I might audit their Facebook best practices and other social media channels. This is the research and development of learning materials.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. Nonprofit leaders have heard the call but are struggling to meet expectations due to a lack of basic resources, expertise and support. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Schoemaker, founder and executive chairman of Decision Strategies international and research director of Wharton’s Mack Center for technological innovation, shares critical insights on the benefits of making well-chosen mistakes. The model balances content, learning design, and participants. Now You See It by Cathy Davidson.

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The Future of Social: Gen Z

NonProfit Hub

Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building and relationship marketing best practices. Optimize your search results (they do their Internet research). Gen Z by the Numbers.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs.

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