Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In I continue to serve on the advisory board of Leadership Learning Community and Wake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

Top e-Learning Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2024 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems The global eLearning market was worth $190 billion in 2020. What is e-learning? eLearning or web-based training is an interactive, directed learning process delivered via the internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. How do you make your trainings or meeting more fun that can lead to more learning?

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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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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. It’s easy to sometimes feel lost in a big virtual room, and this smaller-scale interaction provides the intimacy needed for genuine connections that can lead to all kinds of networking and learning opportunities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Have you ever had to do a room hack? What was your experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. It works, in part, because your brain doesn’t know the difference between the actual event or the visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very make up of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. Moving around is better than sitting still to enhance learning. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. My Theme for the Year: Learning. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles. Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. How much do you retain?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

I recently joined the advisory board of the Leadership Learning Community. Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage.

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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. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” But I also regularly read books as part of my ongoing self-directed learning. The Accelerated Learning Handbook. By Dave Meier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Plus, the Maimonides Ladder ignores a lot of what we’ve learned in recent years about the psychology of giving. You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. I believe all giving is important. And virtuous. That doesn’t make you bad; it makes you human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). Research shows that movement is the killer app for learning. In other words, to what end?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Being able to to set up “learning stations” where students can be participate in different activities paves way for more learning because you are giving participants a choice to learn in a way that they learn best. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here.

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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! Use Learning Theory. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning? Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Expect a follow up post from me next week about what I learned to improve my visual note-taking technique. Social media and working online doesn’t have to be overwhelming; you can take back control. My Curated Lists and Wikis.

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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. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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