Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

The workshop had 16 participants, mostly people who run innovation and research labs from corporations. Since we were spending two days together, working on collaborative exercises, a good opening where we could introduce ourselves and make connections was important. Train the Trainer: Must Incorporate Exercises that Use Simulations.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 134

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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Guatemala Literacy Qatar Open Source 159

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Howard Rheingold calls this process managing your attention or “ Infoattention ” and it is what he has been teaching in his courses. I’ve been trying to curate content that offers ideas, tips, and resources to get past that ugly feeling of “content fried.”

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Content Tips Help Exercise 139

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

And don’t overlook the power of social events and team-building exercises to cement relationships. I am not a fan of employees training each other unless you can shift responsibilities to ensure that people have the capacity to take on a teaching role. Start Small Start with small, manageable projects.

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

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. These are brief, introductory exercises that help participants to get know each other, get connected to the topic, and their own learning outcomes.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also ties right into the lecture/presentation and class exercise of learning the technique of learning loops or real time tracking and reflection.

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Classes Celebrate Cambodia Exercise 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Train Training Technology Instructional Design 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

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. The learning objectives: To provide participants with a formula for training digital campaign strategy.

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Activities Active Activism Digital 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

You also need to challenge participants thought processes and stimulate curiosity about what you are teaching. This includes meeting and greeting people, setting up the room for interaction, getting people to move around, to be actively involved with the content, and appreciating learners. New Zealand: Tables for Small Group Exercises.

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New Zealand Arts Australia Open 97

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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Free Giving Lecture Student 100

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. .

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Social Media Train Training Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. This past week they opened up the campus to nonprofits and I was lucky enough to be part of the faculty to teach a workshop. They also teach yoga and meditation classes in this room. The photo was my classroom.

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Mind News Professional Tips 115

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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Lecture Classroom Utah Experiment 93

Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Watching the shifts in engagement between these age groups, between demographics any any number of other subsets of your membership, is paramount and can teach so much to the staff, if they’re looking. It even creates new segments of outreach – not of traditional demographics, but of behaviors and needs themselves.

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Change Demographics Associations Track 169

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. .” What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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Professional Network Learning Lebanon 102

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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Design Course Leadership Network 107

Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Online resource EdSurge has even compiled a five-point list for educators to help understand and begin merging VR into their lectures and lab exercises as well as how to create their own custom-made videos as supplements to their normal teaching routines.

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Classroom Tech Lecture Student 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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India Education Software Learning 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If you are a trainer, you are working with the human brain every day and you need to know as much as possible about how humans learn and how to teach a topic well. Participants might do an exercise, but the results are on the wall for a debrief. Walk and Talk: I do this a lot in half-day or full-day trainings.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 133

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. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition. There was a lot of snapping.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instructional 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being. As part of the set-up to the exercise, I share some examples from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Culture Activities Active Activism 126

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.

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Learning Work Exercise Knowledge Management 99

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. Just ensure that you’re able to secure an expert to teach who’s comfortable speaking on camera and familiar with the hardware and software necessary to make it happen. 5) Online classes.

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Stream 339

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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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 127

Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Teach them about fundraising. Use videos, assessments, group exercises, and role plays to educate and train them. Teach them about fundraising. Boards that get financial stewardship exercise diligence in the oversight of the financial interests of their organizations. Make sure members understand Duty of Care.

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Build Literacy Nonprofit Exercise 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model.

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Analytics Google Digital Free 108

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. Having a personal vision is one of the most powerful ways to engage neurologically and emotionally.

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Mentoring Teach Authoring Exercise 89

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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Learning Classroom Classes Student 85

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Any idea why? Mark : It depends.

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Leadership New York Share Baltimore 104

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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Reflection Technique Journal Teach 104

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Coaching during a game/exercise can be helpful, but teaching during a game/exercise is distracting and counterproductive. Lemov''s previous book is Teach Like a Champion. Leadership Books Leadership Teaching Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Practice Perfect'

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Teach Jordan Exercise Summary 55

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Coaching during a game/exercise can be helpful, but teaching during a game/exercise is distracting and counterproductive. Lemov's previous book is Teach Like a Champion. What people do right is as important in practice as what they do wrong. Practice Perfect 's authors are Doug Lemov, Katie Yezzi and Erica Woolway.

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Jordan Exercise Skills Teach 63

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Military Academy’s cadets, he has coached world-class athletes, a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans – teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the world’s biggest stages. Releasing or restructuring your less successful experiences.

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Build Mind Chapter Influence 96

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

She did an exercise Seelig teaches to her students: Pick a random object in your space and figure out how it can help you solve your problem. Example: One of her students needed to move a couch from one side of town to the other quickly, but she didn't have a car, or anyone who could give her a ride in a large enough vehicle.

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Attitude Student Classroom Problem 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program teaches women how to build confidence with self-promotion. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise. She will be doing this exercise with young girls at the high school we are visiting later this week. The workshop was developed by several women who work at Google.

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Peru Exercise Empowerment Local 79

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Noah Fleming Fortunately, in Fleming's timely and intensively relevant book , he shows you through strategies, exercises and examples what to do. Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving.

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Exercise Companies Lesson Relationship 91