Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

Once requirements are collected, grants managers have traditionally been instructed to solicit Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from vendors. How can we evolve as a sector, when we apply outdated knowledge sharing practices, especially around complicated topics like technology and data migrations? People transform ideas into reality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Here are some best practices to make sure you get this valuable data: Streamline guest registration : Streamline the check-in process by using a well-designed registration form or a digital sign-up platform. Underscore eco-friendly practices and initiatives that resonate with environmentally-conscious donors of all ages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

As the executive director, you facilitate an International group that is service-oriented and driven by women. Networking takes practice. Zonta has a standards guide that includes instructions related to style and formatting. The diversity of needs and perceptions is both energizing and complex. Women who join Zonta are doers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

I've mostly used wikis as a personal portfolio and have participated in community or collaborative wikis facilitated by others. Mathieu Plouride responded pointing to some of his research to identify best practices of using wikis in higher ed. Been pausing over the purist definition slide from his slide deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In my work as a trainer and facilitator, I make workshops and master classes as interactive as possible, incorporating peer discussion, movement, and creativity. But it isn’t impossible, if you follow best practices for virtual facilitation for meetings. The next step is to facilitate a discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

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. The tactics can include workshops , master classes , coaching , expert consultants or peer learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Instructional Design. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

You can practice these exercises alone or with your team. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. Here’s some step-by-step or eye-by-eye instructions. We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2020

As the facilitator or meeting host, you can also judge whether you have allowed for enough time by watching the note-taking process in the google document. It is a good idea to get a few people together on a call to practice doing it before you host your first meeting with zoom Breakout Rooms. Small Group Activities.

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Exercise Reflection Structure Google 177

Nonprofits Source

MAY 25, 2023

Treatment: The healthcare system prescribes treatment and follow-up instructions. Post-visit behavioral and lifestyle adjustment: The patient follows treatment instructions and makes lifestyle adjustments to facilitate healing and well-being. Care: The patient is assessed by the medical faculty. Respond to negative reviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.” The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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Training Train Technology Instructional Design 114

Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2023

Here are practical tips on how to engage your aging donors and encourage planned gtiving. Practical tips to encourage planned giving Here are 13 practical tips on how to relate to and engage older donors and encourage planned giving. Provide clear instructions. We’re all aging, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Best practices for collecting actionable data. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. In 2012, Howard Rheingold facilitated the production of the “ Peeragogy Handbook ,” a practical how-to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I am not always lucky to be teaching in a classroom that is designed as a flexible space to be molded into a learning environment by the instructor guided by the instructional design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. The practices are intended to balance the energies of any given space to assure health and good fortune for people inhabiting it. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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Teach Instructional Design Learning Instruction 101

Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

Why I love this practice and know it’s worth the commitment. A Leadership Circle is a common practice for business owners, corporate CEOs and nonprofit executives. The practical volunteer management skills – the supervision, the policies, the strategies – it’s easier to find instruction in these areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Similarly, provide clear instructions for individuals interested in volunteering or getting involved.

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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. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. The learning objectives for the workshop were two fold: Participants understand best practices and how to apply. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We chose the latter.

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Participatory Digital Facilitation Exercise 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Micro-learning online courses consist of a video, an info-graphic or list of tips, and a set of instructional or assessment questions that help us think differently about the topic and find something bite size to apply immediately. Enter micro-learning, resources that can be quickly read, viewed, or consumed and take only ten minutes or less.

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Professional Learning Develop Course 77

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers. Start Small Start with small, manageable projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

In addition to optimizing the software and tools you use to facilitate large amounts of data, keeping data clean is essential to ensuring you can understand and accurately report it. To ensure your data stays updated, accurate, and well-organized, it’s key to practice good data hygiene habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. Drawing from adult learning theories, ECB utilizes a variety of strategies such as: Vehicle of instruction: face-to-face meetings, teleconferences, classroom style learning, web-based mechanisms, manuals, etc. Implement ECB strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts. This year I facilitated several labs, including one for the Brainerd Foundation to rethink 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Who will facilitate? These are some of the best practices of planning a high quality session. These are some of the best practices of planning a high quality session. Recently, Points of Light offered an instructional webinar on how to design a conference session. How will the audience participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The interactive keynote had 300 nonprofit leaders take and discuss the nonprofit burnout assessment and brainstorm self-care ideas to put into practice. When writing a book, the best part for me is developing instructional workshops and keynotes and I am excited to see how nonprofits put some of the ideas into practice.

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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. 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. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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