Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. We circled in on these ideas: Revisiting the discomfort zone and know it is normal.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

This post is written based on my personal understanding and could reflect deficiencies experienced in my own personal learning process. Also, the practice may aid in the process, but memorizing definitions for a quiz is most likely not going to yield long-term results. It is best to accommodate their needs. Use various forms of media.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. Imagine undergoing a narrative where the topic of interest was only defined by its dictionary definition over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

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? What: The art of social instructional design. How: 6 Tools and Tips.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Evaluating your mission statement: Your company’s mission statement reflects its purpose and goals, and can even relate to some nonprofit causes. With your company’s executives backing the program, you’ll signal to employees that the program truly reflects the mission and goals of the company as a whole.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Measuring this change has benefits for both your members and your learning business alike: For your learning business, understanding this change gives you insight into both the knowledge of your members and the efficacy of your courses to instruct them. What are the different types of online assessment? Gamification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Reflection on your past practice is a great way to start a new project that builds on the same skills and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. David’s simple definition for improvisation was “Making or creating and doing the best you can with what you have.” Not great as many of reflected. He asked us to define it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2011

The cards focus on strengths-based reflections and are an easy tool to get meetings started on a positive note, even if you are discussing challenging issues. Second, use tools and practices. I carry with me a deck of "check-in" cards which I use as a practice to open meetings with staff, board members, and volunteers. I will keep you posted!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

If there was all-day instruction on the Web 2.0 And, while not the most enjoyable process in the world, it is definitely the most valuable. In reflection, after watching both Preetam's video and Thomas Wanoff's video of the game in process, I guess I should be so hard on myself. My group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter. Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Here is a definition from the Campus Compact site : Service-learning is a teaching method which combines community service with academic instruction as it focuses on critical, reflective thinking and civic responsibility. Service learning is really a partnership between the student, the organization and the professor.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work. For example, visitors were invited to add their own secrets to hampers in front of selected artworks and were instructed to write secrets or memories that those specific artworks evoked. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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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. I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Act 2: Definitions.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So definitely knows what she’s talking about. Definitely involved in the healthcare space. So any of you listening in who are in the healthcare arena, you definitely want to check her out. So I can definitely appreciate that grants can be challenging. Rachel: Yeah, you can say win rate. It sounds cooler anyway.

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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!). This long reflection on external motivation relates directly to the core mission of museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

Based on the discussion threads in my Facebook page , I’ve updated my mega list of tools in my social media listening and engaging instructional wiki.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

Use the SMART acronym to set a goal your organization can actually achieve: Specific: Create a definite goal. Striking visuals and graphics: When you pick images or design graphics for your website, make sure they reflect what your organization is all about. Don’t try to do too many things at once.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

You have to create messages and experiences that are true to your brand and relevant to people, reflecting their needs. Even though the definition below is focused on product marketing, we fundraisers know how effective storytelling is with donors in our communications. In this context, relevance is as important as reach.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

It’s not very often that we take a very scientific view of the philanthropy world, but Jen is definitely leading the charge on that. When Paul runs his mailing package, his instructions for his teams is, “If you’re going to change a word in my mailing pack, I want to see the evidence that you use to change that word.

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