Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Social Network Analysis America Network 95

Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Understand your training needs: Companies must perform a skill gap analysis to review their present and future training needs. Re-think Blended Training: Blended training techniques in a hybrid work culture can include collaborative workshops, online sessions, brainstorming, discussions, and other exercises.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Steps to Successfully Managing Training in a Hybrid Work Culture Understand your training needs: Companies must perform a skill gap analysis to review their present and future training needs. These communication methods can encourage employees to learn, obtain feedback from each other, and promote learning and retention.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Steps to Successfully Managing Training in a Hybrid Work Culture Understand your training needs: Companies must perform a skill gap analysis to review their present and future training needs. These communication methods can encourage employees to learn, obtain feedback from each other, and promote learning and retention.

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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. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

There are a wealth of theories, ideas, and methods covered, for example the “ SAVI ” model for designing exercises that help learners embrace learning in different styles. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. It can help people learn faster and in a more fun and natural way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. Luckily, there is no shortage of techniques and resources and books.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. You also need to design good openers and closers !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

” I’ve found that scheduling walking meetings is a great way to get to know people and you get some exercise into your day! (I’m There are many techniques to analyze or visualize our professional networks and I’ve identified a methods in this post that include analyzing your contacts via social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. (The Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. How do you apply these two methods? Return on Investment.

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sgEngage

APRIL 24, 2023

These techniques are used by threat actors to influence unsuspecting individuals into acting or sharing information that can be leveraged for a cyberattack. Password Cracking Password cracking involves using various methods (computational and otherwise) to break through password authentication to gain access to an account.

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Policy Nonprofit Method Accessibility 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. This tool is called ImpactKit. We have been testing these workshops for the last few months and have had some interesting early results.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Consider the non-digital events, techniques, and campaigns that your organization will be pursuing concurrently with your new digital strategy.

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Digital Strategy Create Phase 98

Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2017

As a result, he wrote this book and shared many of the different ways someone can exercise influence over another. Think of this as the “foot-in-the-door technique” 3. When employing these psychological techniques, we can better deliver our message and persuade others to act. No one wants to be a flip-flopper.

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