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. There is also an self-assessment exercise. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

An instructor travels to your place of business to teach you how to apply your new features to your existing processes, one-on-one. These types of partnerships are reflections of the trust the organization has in the software company. Gaining alignment across multiple groups is an exercise in communication. In-person training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. There is no better way to improve your own teaching than being a student! Giving 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. When learners enter the room, I ask them to reflect on their “burning question” or why did they want to take this workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. The next exercise was about practicing awareness and openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Both language and what you’re teaching. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level. Saying no is a muscle that needs to be exercised daily. This year I’m incorporating a couple of techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .” Each country was represented in a different color.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes. This was part of an exercise to think through how a personal brand can support an organizational brand.

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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. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? I am teaching two more sessions. The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. This can be a mix of presentations by peers, with lots of facilitated discussion and interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

I think adding value is also about using your critical thinking skills. It made me wonder whether there were some useful ideas in the literature about teaching critical thinking skills that could be applied to content curation. In 1993, noted American psychologist and expert on critical thinking R.W.

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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

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. The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

But self-aware leaders pause, reflect, and ask: Am I still growing, or am I letting AI take over my creative instincts? This can include short reflective meetings where leaders and teams pause to evaluate decisions and their alignment with long-term goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Greg Pass, CTO/Twitter, teaching new employees something called "Twittokinetics" and advises them to pay attention to what their doing, understand & own the problem & realize learning opportunities. If the first thing you do when you get up, is check your email.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Hartman also says the team wanted to make sure they weren’t choosing names that might translate into something offensive in another language: “We checked each name in every language we teach,” he says. That was a huge part of the development of the characters.”

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Design Project Language Lesson 120

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

Personal 52

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

Personal 52

Personal Exercise Leadership Teach 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

Personal 52

Personal Exercise Strategy Leadership 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 11, 2020

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

Personal 52

Personal Exercise Leadership Teach 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 2, 2020

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

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Leadership Exercise Teach Beginner 52

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Four Ways to Promote Healthy Risk-Taking: Open Communication: Nonprofit leaders can begin promoting healthy risk-taking by encouraging staff to embrace failure through safe discussions and reflection. Implementing these exercises is bound to bring any team closer together while encouraging organization-level growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the honor of teaching a master class at the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) on avoiding burnout for fundraisers with Corinne Aartman in Amsterdam. Richard Sved, a fundraising consultant from the UK, participated and wrote a reflection on the UK Fundraising Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 4, 2021

The first part will have your participants reflecting on a past event or moment, but the second part enables them to share how they would want to be treated if they only had 30 perfect seconds left of life. Then, the leader will go through and ask each participant to share each of the reflections. Classification Game.

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