Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Achieve

JULY 7, 2021

When you use the Poll sticker you can insert your question and two answers for followers to choose from. 4: The Questions Sticker. This is great for answering questions about your organization, as well as getting to know your supporters! Your organization can use the Poll sticker to collect data or entertain your followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Most of the online assessments are also limited to questions that are only objective in nature. Make learning fun by just having a mobile or tablet by your side that can do training work for you. Keep yourself updated with the fresh content which is available on the online learning platforms.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Most of the online assessments are also limited to questions that are only objective in nature. Make learning fun by just having a mobile or tablet by your side that can do training work for you. Keep yourself updated with the fresh content which is available on the online learning platforms.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Most of the online assessments are also limited to questions that are only objective in nature. Make learning fun by just having a mobile or tablet by your side that can do training work for you. Keep yourself updated with the fresh content which is available on the online learning platforms.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

When it comes to training, your staff has new questions. Evolutions in Content. Now to tie things back to e-learning: we know that the purpose of an e-learning course is to teach staff members how to do their jobs better. Use examples, questions, and scenarios that are representative of what team members will encounter.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

In September we explored ways in which to make compliance training more fun, with our article entitled “ Fun Compliance Training – A Real Phrase ” However, we did not fully dive into the depths of manners in which such fun could be accomplished. Historically, compliance training is not meant to be fun.

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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? Content Delivery Is Not Learning. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Virtual tours are fun for everyone. My kids especially like the tours that teach them something new, and that act like the audience is right there in the room. Adding in some questions for kids or funny facts can help keep their attention. Virtual Tours. Project Boxes or Packets.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Her nerdy, entertaining videos about math evoke the power of free choice learning while poking gentle fun at the drudgery of how math is often taught in school. She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. She would be the best science center educator ever.

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

Their friends and family will love supporting a loved one while also watching a fun movie in the comforts of their own home. Peer-to-peer fundraising will likely naturally take place on social media, but you can take it a step further by adding a fun, competitive element. Social fundraisers. Give-it-up fundraisers. Volunteer challenge.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

If you’ve never hosted your own peer-to-peer campaign or you just want some general tips on how to make your next one better, this guide is here to answer any questions you have. To start off, ask these questions about your peer-to-peer campaign: Will this be a purely virtual, in-person, or hybrid event ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. I got an email from hosts Chris Uschan and Tony Veroeven who shared some numbers, "We had 190 attend and ask 140 questions in a back channel that looked like Clark Griswald 's House at Christmas!". I think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Your design is not just about content. You may feel at first this is an “extra” step or unnecessary. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. We had a lot of content and process to go through during the two-day training.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2013

As someone with questionable math skills and zero computer programming experience, this has been a daunting subject to overtake … so I thought. The renowned computer science institution opened its course content to the online world with MIT OpenCourseWare , giving everybody access to its programming and design curriculum.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Perhaps you already provide them with relevant content through a website, e-newsletter, e-mails, or social media channels. Such a place can also be a source of “user generated content”, relieving your internal staff from the burden of coming up with fresh content, and truly leveraging the ideas of your larger community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

The game teaches strategy and visual skills. I also found a coloring and drawing app that my daughter is enjoying, although I must admit that I'm having fun with it too. Most of all, I like using it to read web content over coffee away from my desktop. The device isn't just a toy for the kids (or me.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The Be The Media Project is a community of people from nonprofits who are interested in learning and teaching about how social media strategies and tools can enable nonprofit organizations to create, compile, and distribute their stories and change the world. My role is to help build the community while curating the curriculum/content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. User-generated content for training can be powerful and also make participants more open to subject matter. You tell participants you might not have time to cover all the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This mixture was embedded in every aspect from the instructional design – from icebreakers to reflection exercises to presentation content, examples, and frameworks. On Day 3, when it was time to focus on more time on teaching the tools, we started with an opening exercise designed to help identify those in the room who had knowledge.

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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. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. You can also send fun cards using Felt. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2014

Eventually, Berry started running the training program, developing content, and translating the research Idealware does. Online training seemed like the best format for teaching technology planning. And Just for Fun. Got any tech planning questions? "It's a great place to be," said Berry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The two discussion questions were: What are your expectations for the project as a social media trainer? In my group, we identified four broad themes for the first question: Improved training technique. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants. Here’s how it was used during Day 4.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Nonprofits often struggle with creating effective content and engagement strategies. NetSquared DC organized a panel discussion on Engagement Strategy: Empowering Champions* and Influencers* on November 3, 2015, to delve into this question. Give readers an action they can take after reading your content. The panelists included.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.” The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

It also includes related information, such as your password reminder questions, and general secure notes. Believe it or not, it makes preparing wireframes fun. You can save the web url, or the page contents, or you can make your own notes and lists. Available without prescription, ScreenSteps is addictive.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Before exploring the questions around limitations and needs, I want to share a couple examples of things happening right now to remind us that even though it will take a lot of work, and honestly a good bit of time, that we are already moving. We have the very fun chance to put pieces together and connect dots that others aren’t seeing.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But we’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so, for sure. So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. There’s a chat box and a questions box.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 24, 2022

This is a loaded question, asked by many marketers, with several variables weighing in on the final ruling. Above all, Marketing Cloud is intuitive and really quite fun for modern marketers to work with! See Marketing Cloud in Action from our Nonprofit Summit 2021 session with Teach For America. Marketing Cloud or HubSpot?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

It's only been recently that people have started asking the question, "What's the story of our food? When you start having that curiosity, and start asking those questions, what reveals itself are all these ways in which food is, and has become, this highly industrial process that involves a lot of fossil fuels and a lot of deforestation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

It’s going to be a fun one. So if you have to bounce early, or maybe you get interrupted, or just want to review the content, don’t worry. We’ve got an expert on here over the next hour or so, and we’ll try to answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 Eastern hour here. But a lot of fun.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments that you have along the way. These days I spend my time doing fundraising, teaching, training, and coaching with my own firm, Productive Fundraising. So love to teach and train and share the knowledge I have to take other organizations to the next level.

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