Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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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.

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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! Can participants apply the skills?” Use Learning Theory. Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Needs Assessment and Customization : A thorough needs analysis is the first step in scaling training programs for international teams. It makes certain that training initiatives are in line with organizational goals, personal skill gaps, and various learning requirements. But how to go about this?

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Needs Assessment and Customization : A thorough needs analysis is the first step in scaling training programs for international teams. It makes certain that training initiatives are in line with organizational goals, personal skill gaps, and various learning requirements. But how to go about this?

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Needs Assessment and Customization : A thorough needs analysis is the first step in scaling training programs for international teams. It makes certain that training initiatives are in line with organizational goals, personal skill gaps, and various learning requirements. But how to go about this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

The convenience and impact of eLearning have made it a popular choice for training and skill development. Louisiana Machinery identified job-specific tasks and skills, determining the appropriate training courses with Gyrus Systems’ GyrusAim LMS. They turned to Gyrus Systems and their GyrusAim competency-based LMS for a solution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

The convenience and impact of eLearning have made it a popular choice for training and skill development. Louisiana Machinery identified job-specific tasks and skills, determining the appropriate training courses with Gyrus Systems’ GyrusAim LMS. They turned to Gyrus Systems and their GyrusAim competency-based LMS for a solution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

The convenience and impact of eLearning have made it a popular choice for training and skill development. Louisiana Machinery identified job-specific tasks and skills, determining the appropriate training courses with Gyrus Systems’ GyrusAim LMS. They turned to Gyrus Systems and their GyrusAim competency-based LMS for a solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. The people with skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Here I used a classic, simple technique of asking people to share burning questions in small groups and generated a list of the themes/questions with the full group. I’m always relieved when the questions match the content, but you also have to point out where you will go deep and what may not be addressed. Here are some tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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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

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. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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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. For more about the techniques, see the Peer Instruction Blog: Turn to Your Neighbor is written by Julie Schell , a researcher for Eric Mazur. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Do you need sentiment analysis? How long do you need to archive the data?

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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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis.

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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. This is the actual delivery of the instruction and content. This is where you apply your presentation and facilitation skills. It is also important to target the right level of authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Where can network weaving techniques help you unleash the abundance that networks offer. 3. Where are the gaps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Often overwhelmed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Data visualization techniques are used not only to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. The term means learning culture. Cultural Indicators.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

By paying heed to your users’ learning preferences, you’re enabling the creation of content that captivates and effectively facilitates learning. The answer lies in audience analysis. Hence, the relevance of engagement techniques such as gamification.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

By paying heed to your users’ learning preferences, you’re enabling the creation of content that captivates and effectively facilitates learning. The answer lies in audience analysis. Hence, the relevance of engagement techniques such as gamification.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2024

By paying heed to your users’ learning preferences, you’re enabling the creation of content that captivates and effectively facilitates learning. The answer lies in audience analysis. Hence, the relevance of engagement techniques such as gamification.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Join more than 40 nonprofit organizations and over 70 MLG professionals in sessions featuring overall trends, insights, and analysis. Attend If You’re: Looking to sharpen your fundraising skills and network with industry leaders; Open to Giving Institute members only. The result is often greater leadership and innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also like to practice my storytelling skills. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. Some excellent ideas here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” What do you think?

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