Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This will be especially detrimental for junior staff, who need human-to-human feedback to learn and improve their job performance. The most important skill nonprofit leaders can learn and teach their teams is to know when to use AI and when to use human skills. Investing in “soft skills.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

2) Training. Fundraising software training is essential to maximizing your investment. No matter how intuitive a system may be, there are always a few questions, tips, and tricks that a training professional can help you with so you get started on a solid foundation. In-person training. 3) Support.

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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. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2011

Successful technology training has less to do with technical knowledge than with other abilities such as communication skills, patience, interpersonal skills, flexibility, and empathy towards learners struggling with new technologies. It is more useful to know how to train than to just have technical expertise.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Connecting the dots: What Corporate Training Can Learn from Formal Education. ” This core competency of organizing is vital to the success of individuals in the training field. As it is difficult to make the most of the training if the concern of the trainees lies elsewhere. Organizing the Calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

A nd learn volunteer empowerment strategies to try out at your organization! The peer groups also offer opportunities for member v olunteers to develop more skills and become leaders. Empower your volunteers by offering the chance for members to teach in your learning program or speak at your annual conference.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2021

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker. Learning is truly an everlasting endeavor. When we stop learning, we stop growing. But, they feel held back due to limited time for learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2023

Put another way, if we ask donors to cover the cost of a learning event to help students gain job skills, with different set amounts per month (e.g., for that 2-hour learning period; lesson preparation time; supplies, etc. Or is it “restricted” because we’re asking for this particular training program? How to find out?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated. That’s the future.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here are some ways you can find and get in front of new funders: Attend a “ Meet the Funders ” panel in your community or ask to take a local funder out to coffee to learn more about their organization and funding priorities. Practicing your public speaking by volunteering to teach a workshop or speak on a panel.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. Jane Hart: Jane has been blogging for many years and writes about informal and workplace learning. Why is learning the new important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2023 professional accomplishments: Generative AI for Nonprofits : Allison Fine and I published and launched our second book together, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in Age of Automation in 2022. I just received my 2023 email. That is twenty years!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

How do you learn? When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? The book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2018 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman in 2016. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. Year in Review. So stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It was a great learning experience from both a process and content perspective. The idea was that if they knew each other’s knowledge and skill related to the project, it can help everyone can be more effective in delivering the social media training because one person or team doesn’t need to know everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. ” Well, 2 out of 3 is not bad! What are your hopes and dreams for 2022?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If you’ve been part of the Salesforce community for a while, you’ve certainly heard of Trailhead — the fun way to learn about all things Salesforce. Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. First, some tips for your learning program based on our experience. You may have even earned some badges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I love Marianne''s Elliott''s e-news where she shares what she''s been "learning, reading, writing and listening to," so I''m doing my own version. I learned a lot about my strengths and challenges as a leader, and gained a bevy of tools to help me be a better one. It was a deep and profound experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. ” Well, 2 out of 3 is not bad! What are your hopes and dreams for 2022?

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Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Flickr Photo by Minarae. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The questions: What do you hope to learn today? For the rest of the morning, we learned about design thinking by doing it through “ A Crash Course in Design Thinking.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

During my first visit to the Nigerian capital of Abuja last April, I learned that a member of the NHRC who had been monitoring local elections had been beaten and unlawfully detained. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re interested in learning more, explore InitLive’s full rundown of volunteer statistics for more information on the state of volunteerism today. That’s one of the best things about volunteering; there are a variety of ways for individuals to make an impact according to their interests and skills.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2011

Idealware , a partner of TechSoup's recently posted an article addressing how to train staff in simpler, more cost-effective ways. All of the methods listed use the web or some form of computer technology in order to avoid the hassle of going to off-site training seminars or conferences. Tools for Training Staff Online.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Role of Coaching in your Learning and Development Program. As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? The comparisons do not just end there.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Teach them about fundraising. The Governance Committee, responsible for ensuring the board can fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities, should work with the Finance and Fundraising Committees to create an Education and Training Plan with consistent opportunities for board members to learn about finances and fundraising.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Byte Back is a nonprofit computer skills and career training center located in Washington, D.C. Glenn taught himself the skills needed to maintain and repair computers. In the mid-1990s, Glenn met with his friend Barbara Altman to share his idea of opening a computer and career training center in Honduras.

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