Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. Brilliance by Design: Creating Learning Experiences that Connect, Inspire, and Engage. Training Design'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love Bregman’s idea. Learning from Failure: Little Bets: This past year, I gave a keynote for the Social Good Brasil Conference where I met Peter Sims , author of Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. The theme he selected for the year really resonated with me: Slow Down. That’s what I need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful. It can be the first campaign strategy session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. The report out was a competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we wrote and published the Emerging Leaders Playbook last year, along with facilitating a peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat.

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Professional Nonprofit Facilitation Journal 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. So, you have to design for that. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Training Design. This peer learning exchange has monthly conference calls that balance expert content delivery with peer sharing and making a commitment to put ideas and recommendations into practice over the month. Lawmakers repurpose key messages. Making Use of the Timeline Features.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Weak ties bring in new thinking, ideas, and resources. Instructional Design Notes. The more you diversify your network the better off you are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They also have to present their ideas to the whole class and do a brief write up. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. This post shares the content and I’ll share a post about the instructional design in a second post. Or you can borrow some ideas from Hollywood.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” They enjoy sharing their ideas and perspectives openly with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US. I wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also designed and facilitated a six month peer learning cohort with colleague Stephanie Rudat. Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Facilitation, Curriculum Development and Train the Trainers.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Now AI steps up the game and moves towards delivering intuitive learning experience platforms that facilitate learning experiences based on the learner’s preferences, needs, and goals. AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Now AI steps up the game and moves towards delivering intuitive learning experience platforms that facilitate learning experiences based on the learner’s preferences, needs, and goals. AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field.

Learning 52

Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Now AI steps up the game and moves towards delivering intuitive learning experience platforms that facilitate learning experiences based on the learner’s preferences, needs, and goals. AI-Powered Design and Development The impact of artificial intelligence in training has been profound in the design and development field.

Learning 52

Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

We co-authored the “ Emerging Leaders Playbook ,” and I designed and facilitated a peer learning project. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective.

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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. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media.

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Social Media Reflection Social Learning 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Inspire new ideas : “Can that be done in any other way?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Any trainers out there have a suggestion or ideas for ways to use content-related questions from participants collected in advance to help facilitate learning in the room? Comfort Levels. Some advice from Twitter.

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Social Media Instruction Instructional Effective 50

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Microlearning in particular caters towards reinforcing ideas, motivating students due to the brevity of the content, as well as creating an environment where the user feels like they have accomplished something within that same very short time span.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These platforms provide extensive features that facilitate seamless management and delivery of content, ensuring that organizations can stay competitive. These numerous aspects exemplify why we need Learning Management Systems to facilitate the continuous learning process.

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Integration Challenge Issue Learning Management 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These platforms provide extensive features that facilitate seamless management and delivery of content, ensuring that organizations can stay competitive. These numerous aspects exemplify why we need Learning Management Systems to facilitate the continuous learning process.

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Integration Challenge Issue Learning Management 52

Gyrus

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

These platforms provide extensive features that facilitate seamless management and delivery of content, ensuring that organizations can stay competitive. These numerous aspects exemplify why we need Learning Management Systems to facilitate the continuous learning process.

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Integration Challenge Learning Management Issue 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

aspect of the Forum Gallery by motivating visitors to share their own ideas and interpretations of the artwork with other visitors in physical and virtual formats. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. Here are some samples: "Awesome idea, super interactive, engaging!" "It

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Each of these suggestions is built on the idea of providing feedback for learners to allow them to grow through assessments. With proctoring capabilities, your association won’t be limited from facilitating assessments related to accreditation and licensing. Invest in an LMS with assessment authoring features.

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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. Ashley shared a brilliant idea and technique avoid the stigma from failure. Growing My Instructional Chops. Stay tuned for that!

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. One-day or half-workshops are only one touch point.

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