Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. I created a storify of the tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, and what to improve. Stay tuned for more information in 2017, but I will be very busy writing facilitator process guides based on my decades of experience as a trainer and sharing that on this blog. I use the large Moleskine (8 x 11.5).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

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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. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Later in the morning, I facilitated a large group discussion hour-long discussion right before lunch with Greg and Laura Efurd from ZeroDivide. Listening to the conversation and watching the audience for signs of energy drop, I inserted some movement into the discussion related to the topic by asking them to do the ” failure bow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We created a deck of cards with mini-case studies showing examples of how these state advocates had strategically incorporate social media into their social media plan. For example, the All Kids Covered has been using the timeline features to create milestones for legislative victories.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content, such as text, images, or other media by learning from and combining pieces of existing data. Will I be replaced by ChatGPT?

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Creating a Sense of Community in Virtual Classrooms Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

An effective strategy to utilize the potential of virtual learning is to create a strong sense of community within online classrooms — using the virtual environment as a means to reinforce community practices. About 70% of students prefer online learning over traditional classroom methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

This took an extensive amount of planning and design on our part, an estimated 30 hours. ” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had sooo much fun creating and delivering it. 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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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

From optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting research to creating art, AI applications are expanding phenomenally. Driving Strong and Impactful Digital-First Learning Strategies Creating digital-first learning strategies is now an L&D imperative as the workplace changes completely.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

From optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting research to creating art, AI applications are expanding phenomenally. Driving Strong and Impactful Digital-First Learning Strategies Creating digital-first learning strategies is now an L&D imperative as the workplace changes completely.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

From optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting research to creating art, AI applications are expanding phenomenally. Driving Strong and Impactful Digital-First Learning Strategies Creating digital-first learning strategies is now an L&D imperative as the workplace changes completely.

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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. What metrics will you use to measure success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. I created a nonprofit version of Charelene Li's Social Graphics Framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Microlearning in particular caters towards reinforcing ideas, motivating students due to the brevity of the content, as well as creating an environment where the user feels like they have accomplished something within that same very short time span.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. Some of these services include: Creating a strategy for your learning business. Creating a content development strategy. Let’s get started. What is an eLearning consultant?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Intentional Silence: Leaving space for quiet, an essential facilitation skill.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Personalized learning strives to understand the requirements of learners and creates the training curriculum based on their specific needs. Short videos (aka micro-learning) are all the more suitable for creating job aids. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Personalized learning strives to understand the requirements of learners and creates the training curriculum based on their specific needs. Short videos (aka micro-learning) are all the more suitable for creating job aids. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Personalized learning strives to understand the requirements of learners and creates the training curriculum based on their specific needs. Short videos (aka micro-learning) are all the more suitable for creating job aids. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It allows educators to create, manage, and distribute educational content. It’s a bridge connecting learners and educators, facilitating a seamless exchange of knowledge. This term represents a software platform designed to facilitate educational processes. It facilitates seamless course management and delivery.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

An effective strategy to utilize the potential of virtual learning is to create a strong sense of community within online classrooms — using the virtual environment as a means to reinforce community practices. Online learning is even said to enhance information retention by 25% to 60%. What Is Virtual Learning?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Sequencing.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field. Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. Create reports that align with ACCME PARS compatibility requirements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

See the above video, created by team in Tunisia, which summarizes the program.) The networking conference was an opportunity for participants from different countries to share their lessons learned and network with one another. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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