Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Each year at this time, I reflect on the valuable lessons my father taught me that have served me well in business and in life - including lessons I learned when I didn't at the time necessarily realize I was learning from him. He loved to learn. He loved even more to teach. He lived to help other people learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

R ead our blog to discover how PEAK Grantmaking empowered its member volunteers and strengthened its volunteer program. A nd learn volunteer empowerment strategies to try out at your organization! 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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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. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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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. But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. How do you make your trainings or meeting more fun that can lead to more learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. 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.

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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! All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

How to Gamify Compliance Training. In September we explored ways in which to make compliance training more fun, with our article entitled “ Fun Compliance Training – A Real Phrase ” However, we did not fully dive into the depths of manners in which such fun could be accomplished.

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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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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! All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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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. Source: Zazzle.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. Naturally, it will take a lot of time, training, and labor to get it up and running, but once it is all configured, it will solve all your problems. This is the dream. It wasn’t great.

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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. This past year, I found myself writing less on this blog. 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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The Disruptive Approach to the Learning Industry. From an outside perspective, it would appear that the Learning Market is ripe for such an opportunity. The Learning marketplace, in particular, has been very adaptive throughout its entire existence. What is next for the learning industry?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2022 professional accomplishments: The Smart Nonprofit : Allison Fine and I published and launched our second book together, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in Age of Automation. I continue to serve on the advisory board of Leadership Learning Community and Wake.

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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

MAY 6, 2013

I’m teaching a master class today in San Francisco for arts organizations for Theatre Bay Area. This is a continuation of my work with TBA over the past 3-4 years. The first year I experimented with a peer design that included face-to-face workshops, action learning projects, and monthly calls back in 2010 called ArtsLab.

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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change. Even when people do respond, they often do so out of obligation rather than motivation,” explain the authors of the new book, Helping People Change: Coaching With Compassion For Lifelong Learning AndGrowth. And, thank you to the book's three authors!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

On the other hand, I have learned a lot about ways to make remote work better and the joys of staying home. Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world. Keeping Resilient in 2021.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Unfortunately, this doesn’t inspire sustained learning or positive change. Even when people do respond, they often do so out of obligation rather than motivation,” explain the authors of the book, Helping People Change: Coaching With Compassion For Lifelong Learning And Growth. And, thank you to the book's three authors!

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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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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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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. Here are the core elements: Redefining “productivity.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

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. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

And, because everyone loves change and learning new technology, you aren’t anticipating any challenges when communicating this decision or providing training to impacted teams across campus. The Four Stages of Learning . Pre-training research . Pre go-live training . Go-live training .

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Baseball and your Learning Organization. As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. So you may be asking yourself where is the linkage to learning programs? Measuring Learning.

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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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