Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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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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MARCH 15, 2024

But to do this effectively, businesses need to leverage the power of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that have the capacity to manage content and instructional design – and help in carving out personalized learning paths for the learners. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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MARCH 15, 2024

But to do this effectively, businesses need to leverage the power of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that have the capacity to manage content and instructional design – and help in carving out personalized learning paths for the learners. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

But to do this effectively, businesses need to leverage the power of Learning Management Systems (LMS) that have the capacity to manage content and instructional design – and help in carving out personalized learning paths for the learners. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights.

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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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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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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Creativity: How do you keep creative and generate new ideas, both individually and working within an organization. It is so easy to just do the same old thing all the time, but there is some discomfort in creating something new. I want to explore the methods and techniques for optimizing creativity and applying it your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

I was honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. I enjoyed designing and facilitating this session because I had five awesome presenters who have a depth of knowledge about the topics we discussed. Movement helps wake them up.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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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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JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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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. The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises.

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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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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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JULY 24, 2012

intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep! The other skill building session was a session on working SMARTer on social channels – What are the time saving techniques?

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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. In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations.

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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.” We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. As a facilitator, speaker, or trainer, when in doubt get them to move.

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MARCH 25, 2014

.” That is you step aside from the content delivery and shine a light into the process, including what the trainer is thinking as they are facilitating. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer. Think of “House of Cards” when Francis turns to the camera and shares the dialogue inside his mind.

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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. 28% of donors are repeat donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. " This reminded of the Thiagi's Interactive Lecture techniques. Comfort Levels. In the United States, I've noticed that over the past 2-3 years, there is a growing divide in participants experience/knowledge gap.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Instructional Design. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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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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AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? (The (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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