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 Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated.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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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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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Learn more at MESG.marketing ! ” Video updates: Ask a campaign director to record a short video outlining the most recent status of a campaign and what advocates can expect next. Advocate training: Host a webinar or record a training video that outlines the basics of grassroots advocacy and why it’s so important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. 2) Information Hub.

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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 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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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Learning Resources for Adults.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There’s all kinds of videos you can watch. And I got some training. I’m so grateful that I got that training, but I had really very little mentorship and guidance. You get a lot of training, but not a lot of mentorship and guidance. So I not only got kick-ass training, but I got mentorship.

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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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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Creating short, personalized thank you videos to share with supporters. 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.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is essential to keep technology knowledge and skills up to date. Train on Over 150 Products. You can use Atomic Training to help your organization maximize its tech tools and software products. The training is available to both your staff AND your constituents.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

How We Learn – Capitalize On Knowing. This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Do the one-size fits all approach not work?

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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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Gyrus

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Power of Free Learnings – Non-SCORM Content. There are devoted websites that provide free E-Learnings and there is even a virtual Galaxy full of compliance offerings and operational tutorials on video hosting sites such as YouTube. Videos found on YouTube provide an alternative perspective.

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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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Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

History can truly come alive with video clips and interactive timelines. Or teachers can turn learning into playtime with games for math and science that educate as they entertain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. Participants will do a real-time grantmaking process during which up to $100,000 of Learning By Giving Foundation capital will be allocated to student-selected nonprofits.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Train Them On the Job. Next, you’ll want to train them on the specifics of the task you expect them to do. Teach Them About the Program, Too. Get Them Trained. Your Program Volunteers.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

One theme we’re seeing over and over again is how the pandemic changed the way volunteer managers educate and train their volunteers and clients, often using Zoom or other video sharing platforms. Volunteer managers adapted and learned how to use old technology in new ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. If not, we’ll roll the video.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

After a few years of writing about technology, I've finally decided to take the plunge and learn some basic coding. Let's dive in: Online Courses/Training. What better place to learn how to code than from MIT? " The classes are broken up into short, engaging videos and supplemented with fun, interactive exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

.” One of the workshop participants was Stephen Blyth of Common Knowledge - a long time nonprofit capacity builder and trainer – who invited me to come over to New Zealand to facilitate some workshops to NGOs and meet with funders who are interested in the peer learning and networked capacity building approach. whiri, whaik?rero,

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2014

The Storym akers campaign empowers nonprofits, libraries, and charities with the tools and training to tell their stories, get noticed and make an impact. Participate and Learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

If we lack the skills to avoid collaborative overload, manage difficult conversations, learn from failure, the resulting physical, emotional, and mental strain gets in the way of a nonprofit organization’s success. Do walking meeting one-on-ones and train staff to listen to each other. Leadership training on communications styles.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Enhance existing training programs. . Creating a culture of learning. A culture of learning encourages staff members to remain engaged and pay attention to new opportunities. The more your staff members learn about the industry, the more improvement opportunities they’ll find. Understand why development is important. .

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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. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. But applying it on your own – unless you are an analytics genius – can be difficult.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2021

I have been reading and re-reading the book and learning every day. The book can serve as a guide to teach board members and other nonprofit leadership what not to do when working with fundraisers of color. . To learn more about us and our book, please visit our website. The talk about Collecting Courage today was brilliant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three tips for teaching digital literacy and citizenship: Start with a clear vision. Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. And, many of our community members were just learning too. . I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. Learn basic HTML. VIDEO: HTML All Writers Need to Know. Enter The Colbert Report and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart : VIDEO: 2011: A Look Back.

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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

MARCH 2, 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 ). Mary did a fabulous job!

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

So, you’ve decided to invest in growing your association’s learning business to provide more value to members and bring in non-dues revenue. At Web Courseworks, we provide professional services to help associations like yours build their ideal learning business. What does a learning consultant do? That’s great!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

It is VERY well suited for connecting people from physically distant spaces for shared learning, communication and group participation. text, graphics and video? Six worlds, avatars, lots of chat and even then screens receiving video for. This is why there is a current increase in educators coming to SL. Now that Clay???s

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Consider interviewing volunteers with a video chat or conferencing tool, like Zoom or Skype. As soon as a prospective volunteer lands on your site, their journey to learn more about virtual volunteering and the opportunities you offer should be seamless and streamlined. Take your training online. Virtual volunteer screening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Each video is only 1-4 minutes long, so you can even watch a few videos while eating lunch. Check out these videos about pivot tables.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2012

Learn how to correctly set up your organization’s books, enter transactions common to nonprofits, and create nonprofit-specific reports with the new QuickBooks Made Easy Donation Program at TechSoup. Each lesson is designed and led by CPA Gregg Bossen , who’s been teaching QuickBooks for over ten years. Want to Learn More?

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