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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APRIL 25, 2022

If one of your board members works for a tech company, for example, put a coffee chat on their schedule before the full group meeting. . For example, if you’re creating training courses for newly recruited volunteers , you’ll want to loop in your volunteer coordinator. Subject Matter Experts . Course Reviewers .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

For example, just a few weeks ago I decided to kick a bad habit to curb: sleeping with my mobile phone which was disrupting my sleep. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills. How about you? I did it! My Three Words.

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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. Program Design. We are working very closely with V.S. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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JULY 14, 2021

Taking a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training comes with the following benefits: Increased Flexibility and Accessibility: One great example is volunteer orientation. With visuals of the form and walk-through examples, we were able to put the content into context and make the information easier to process.

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APRIL 22, 2021

For example, they could assist with the search for a learning management system or consult on the pricing of your courses. One example of a document that clients often want to receive is a business plan. This could mean helping your association build its learning business from the ground up or providing guidance for future growth.

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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. A week before our session, I posted a request to my broader Twitter network for arts and social media examples and asked people to add them to the wiki. Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. It’s hard to teach employees creativity if you’re making them select one right answer from a multiple choice question.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. Adjustments to Course Design and Development. For example, let’s say you’re working from home. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

For example, instructional designers need to work with programmers, graphic artists, subject matter experts, and data scientists to develop effective eLearning curricula. It’s hard to teach employees creativity if you’re making them select one right answer from a multiple choice question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

One thing I haven't been doing over the years is documenting the instructional design or lesson plan. I made my way through about 25 minutes of introductory “teach” (ie, “talk” with some q and a) and then, right around the time that thoughts are usually turning to the bar… the crowd really got into it! (Reflections coming soon!)

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JULY 8, 2021

For example, learners in a communication course might take a grammar test at the end of the course to measure how well they retained information about various grammatical rules and standards. For example, you could ask learners to: Create a timeline. Sequencing. Detail a process. Matching, Labeling, and Sorting.

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MAY 25, 2021

For example, it’s easy to imagine new guidance around pandemic procedures on the horizon. It could even lead to dangerous situations if members are completing courses teaching outdated practices that are no longer widely accepted. For example: Members living in different geographical areas and as a result, different time zones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ).

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