Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. The topic is “ The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation for Nonprofits.” Instead, content curation helps us keep focused.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Enhances engagement and applicability by customizing training content to resonate with participants’ positions, experiences, and difficulties. Make the content relatable and pertinent to the team’s real-world problems by including case studies, examples, and situations from various geographical areas.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Enhances engagement and applicability by customizing training content to resonate with participants’ positions, experiences, and difficulties. Make the content relatable and pertinent to the team’s real-world problems by including case studies, examples, and situations from various geographical areas.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Enhances engagement and applicability by customizing training content to resonate with participants’ positions, experiences, and difficulties. Make the content relatable and pertinent to the team’s real-world problems by including case studies, examples, and situations from various geographical areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I just returned from doing two days of facilitating a Networked Nonprofit training in Mexico City with Oxfam Mexico and participants from offices throughout Latin America, South America, and Caribbean. The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.” 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. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The rapidly growing user base and the adoption of LMSs by educational institutions reflect upon the significance of learning management systems in the current learning space.After all, an LMS helps improve the effectiveness of the teaching and learning by providing requisite tools to teachers, students, and administrators.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The rapidly growing user base and the adoption of LMSs by educational institutions reflect upon the significance of learning management systems in the current learning space.After all, an LMS helps improve the effectiveness of the teaching and learning by providing requisite tools to teachers, students, and administrators.

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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.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Your design is not just about content.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

However, organizations must evaluate the system and vendor capabilities to ensure that the LMS is aligned to their learning needs, delivers capable support and value to L&D teams, and can converge and deliver critical insights to improve L&D initiatives. How Easily Can One Create and Deploy Content Using Your LMS?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

However, organizations must evaluate the system and vendor capabilities to ensure that the LMS is aligned to their learning needs, delivers capable support and value to L&D teams, and can converge and deliver critical insights to improve L&D initiatives. How Easily Can One Create and Deploy Content Using Your LMS?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

However, organizations must evaluate the system and vendor capabilities to ensure that the LMS is aligned to their learning needs, delivers capable support and value to L&D teams, and can converge and deliver critical insights to improve L&D initiatives. How Easily Can One Create and Deploy Content Using Your LMS?

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The rapidly growing user base and the adoption of LMSs by educational institutions reflect upon the significance of learning management systems in the current learning space.After all, an LMS helps improve the effectiveness of the teaching and learning by providing requisite tools to teachers, students, and administrators.

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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. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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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. The content focused on telling a couple of ”campfire” stories with insights about best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

International Training Work: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world. This past year I had the honor of facilitating an intense training in Tunisia in January for Women Entrepreneurs that included leadership, entrepreneurship, business planning, and communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. Here’s some additional thoughts sparked by our conversation after reflecting on various blog posts I’ve written and others. Reflect on the diversity of your network. The notes are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. A lot of work I do around social media is training — good training requires good design – not just content. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Heather agreed to write up this report to share some of the content. Building Capacity for Social Change 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Social media content mirrors other channels. The skill building sessions focused on content optimization for integrated social media channels and working SMARTer with social media – time saving tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. The content doesn’t only include “finished&# reports, but also works in progress like the the Goldmine Research project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. Beth facilitated the calls, but the community foundations drove the content, creating a true peer exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Note from Beth: 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. We had additional volunteers who were curating content and monitoring conversation via social media. Our Response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

” I facilitated an interactive featured session on why and how leaders should be engaged on social as well as other insiders (employees, board, and volunteers). How to Practice Good Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share. The conference theme was “Working Together in the Era of the Individual.” Nonprofit Examples.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2024

By Evan Johnson , Content Manager at Mobile Commons – a mobile messaging platform purpose-built for nonprofits to spread their message and engage with supporters. This evolution reflects a broader digital transformation in the nonprofit world, underlining the importance of adaptability and innovation in communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

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JUNE 23, 2021

Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . The potential donor turns into a donor after evaluating their options and donating to the organization. Similar to your email content, make sure you personalize the content and share the positive impact your donor made with their gift. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Does not have a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. A streamlined and well designed dashboard.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating the webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. Jim took us through archived versions of his organization's website, and pointed out how this website was improved and altered to reflect this organization's shifting goals. Are You Designing Your Website with Everyone in Mind?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Content Curation Primer. I presented an overview on content curation why important, a framework, and introduced some new curation tools – scoop.it Content Curation on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data. Use your CRM to send personalized marketing content to each segment that’s relevant to their interests to encourage further engagement. Ask about training resources for the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. 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. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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