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. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google undoubtedly grew tired of updating and developing two tools that couldn’t accurately reflect the type of complex user journeys we see today, where people switch between apps, mobile browsers, and desktops frequently. In our webinar, we provide step-by-step instructions! Why is Google making this change?

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Evolutions in Content. When you work with an e-learning content development company to author a custom course, you can make it more relatable to your team’s experience. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when doing so: Use background scenery and visuals that are reflective of your organization. Use scenario-based learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I blogged about the content last week. 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. I covered these three topics: Why: Social media integrated into instruction - Pass or Fail? Social Instructional Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. The sitting brain is really disengaged. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training? I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. I also want to reflect a bit on the use of social media and mobile technology to support nonprofit professional learning at conferences. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. I tend to take a lot of photos to document the training approaches and use that for reflection to improve training techniques. I learn a lot more which I’ll save for another blog post.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Social Capital 2019 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Is our content compelling? You’ll leave feeling motivated and ready to change the quality of instruction in your school district or community!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Hackerspaces are about people, not content Hackerspaces are hybrid private clubs/public educational spaces. The institution IS the members.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

They provide clear instructions and rules for how to succeed, better feedback on how well you are doing, better community with which to experience the game, and induce more intense emotions of personal pride and accomplishment (fiero!). However, I'm wary of the limitations of game structures to support human happiness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 21, 2022

A website can become like a massive textbook of information over the years as content is added. Unless someone on the content team has a rolodex memory of all the pages and information on the site it can be a tedious task to track down all the uses of a certain word. This will be different for everyone based on file structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Introduction.

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Classy

APRIL 5, 2021

Even if a visitor hits your donation page with the original intent to donate, an underwhelming first impression, or a poorly structured or distracting page, can leave your nonprofit with a missed opportunity. Explain how to set up a campaign, promote it, and achieve your goal with clear and concise instructions.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. First, I mentioned you should use a database and a structured process to search for funders. . Maybe you read the instructions and confirm your eligibility.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

This section offers best practices for designing and structuring your online giving form. You chose your logo, colors, and fonts deliberately to reflect your organization’s mission and values. If you answered no to any of these questions, review and edit your donation page in the mobile view of your content management system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

For the leadership development, there were four guiding questions that we explored throughout our journey – and now as I’m back I will continue to reflect and take action based on these: What does it mean to be a leader in the face of complex challenges. We reflected on the applications to leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been doing a content analysis of " burning questions " that were submitted as part of some pre-workshop information I collected from participants to help design an upcoming workshop. Here's an instructional video about how they work on Facebook along with some advice from Jeremiah Owyang. (2) Photo by Leppre.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. It features three parts: very clear instructions on how to participate, a map of all of the contributions to date , and photos of the contributions.

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