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. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Teaching, leaning, and training has been my passion for 20 years. Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value, different approaches and models, and best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, so this post shares some of the thinking that went into designing a learning experience where people will apply what they learned. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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Forj

AUGUST 1, 2017

That’s because engagement isn’t all that interesting to me from a theoretical perspective: if learners are paying attention and enjoy what they’re doing, they’re more likely to remember the content. Luckily for instructional designers, the field seems to be in step with the implementation of branching scenarios in other sorts of media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. Bonus: Spreadsheet Appreciation.

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Forj

JUNE 28, 2017

In conferences, there’s definitely a sense of comradery: you’re an instructional designer? When I gave the attendees opportunities to interact with other attendees, games we provided, and me, they were highly engaged with the content and reported ways that it could be relevant to their own lives. Let’s talk shop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. As the facilitator, you have give clear instructions to people and keep time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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Forj

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Although I don’t expect instructional designers to leap from their desk chairs and start dancing in glee, the Department of Defense’s statement is an important symbol of change in the industry. SCORM authoring tools are intended to create standardized curricula content that can easily be moved from one LMS to another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. Our session was really about “train the trainer” which requires going beyond mere content delivery and do what I call “going meta.” The Feng Shui of Good Teaching.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

A consultant can create a roadmap to reach your goals from your eLearning pricing strategy, to the content you’ll provide, to how you’ll market those offerings. Creating a content development strategy. Creating a content development strategy. Assisting with the search for new learning technologies. Environmental Scan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. Later, as I developed workshops and content for strategic technology planning , I became obsessed with learning about technology professional development for nonprofits and designing effective trainings. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Over on the SalsaLabs blog, they are doing a series on designing nonprofit tech training and I discovered this excellent rewrite of my post. Your content needs to resonate with your audience’s needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? I think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Design for Flexibility. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Allowing an invaluable insight in developing content that may not just be convenient via technology, but possibly even more effective if properly educated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Apparently you can’t make crappy content go viral. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. The common tip? Craft good headlines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

I was humbled to join the illustrious list of faculty members who have talents and wisdom in content areas that I only dance around of the edges of. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. .

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Evolutions in Content. When you work with an e-learning content development company to author a custom course, you can make it more relatable to your team’s experience. Prioritize content that’s valuable. Focus on content that’s immediately actionable and learners will see the value in your courses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

For 2017, we be launching an online site that includes the content and facilitator guides so that any nonprofit or trainer can provide leadership development for emerging nonprofit leaders. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2019

Today Jocelyn Wright, Instructional Designer and Jenny Toledo, Instructor at Blackbaud University, join your host Roz Lemieux, Director of Blackbaud Labs, to talk about some of the highlights from the M+R Benchmarks Report and what they mean for your organization. How can you improve if you’re not where you want to be?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. Be sure not to stop there, coaching involves so much more than instruction towards a positive outcome. Reinforcement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Gyrus

JULY 28, 2016

Evolution of the Content. Instead, effective content is and must be designed specifically for use on our handheld devices and tablets. More and more instructional designers and content providers are specializing in this medium and as the technology around them gets better Mobile Learning itself will continue to improve.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Microlearning in particular caters towards reinforcing ideas, motivating students due to the brevity of the content, as well as creating an environment where the user feels like they have accomplished something within that same very short time span. This is the exciting future state of content in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Social media content mirrors other channels. Training Design. The skill building sessions focused on content optimization for integrated social media channels and working SMARTer with social media – time saving tips. Tips for Optimizing FB Content To Get Into Newsfeeds. Communications have more impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. The sitting brain is really disengaged. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? As the facilitator you cue the leader to pass the power on to someone else in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. I was a little intimidated going to the conference as I was afraid that all the content would be too much on the technical side of data for my tastes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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