Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

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 also taught a workshop for social startups at Singularity University here in Mountain, View on how to create a Happy Healthy Start Up Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

.” Many admitted to being in the “delight” stage – that collect data but don’t know how to make sense of it. Those that found themselves at measurement love – using data for decision-making said that it goes hand-in-hand with their organization’s learning culture. Learning Analytics.

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APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Program Design. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

The curriculum and instructional design included " Principles of Effective Social Media for Nonprofits " and a version of the social media game created with David Wilcox. The add-on to my previous workshops were three "experiment in a box" modules which included Listening , Twitter , and Facebook Fan Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

If you are designing and delivering training on any topic, here’s some things to think about to ensure that your participants have a transformative learning experience. Design for Participants To Apply. 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

MAY 4, 2015

Last week I attended the DoGoodData Conference in Chicago where I learned an incredible amount about the human side of data – themes like data visualization, data informed culture, using data for impact, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I worked with the Foundation Center to develop an online course about how nonprofits can leverage professional networks for learning and in service of strategy. I continue to hone and improve my instructional practice and share tips with these many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training.

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JUNE 28, 2016

My inspiration for the instructional design was learning that there was a game show in the 1980s called “ The Body Language Game.” Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Hashtag Stats.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

So, this trip was a gift in terms of getting new ideas for instructional design. When you are a trainer, you are a designer and facilitator of learning experiences. As a participant, you can also learn a lot by observing and reverse engineering the instructional design. Exercise #1: Herding Sheep.

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Leadership Develop Exercise 50

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AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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