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

JANUARY 4, 2017

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. How about you?

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. Always good to leave time for Q/A at the end for those).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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. This week was the third face-to-face meeting I’ve helped design and facilitate. All of them did it in less than the half time provided.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above.

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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. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

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. All of the instruction is aligned to a network frame. . Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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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. Shared some insights based on research on moble consumption of social networks and time/type of usage. Instructional Design Notes. Being Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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! It takes time to develop a solid organizational practice in social media, so we wanted to celebrate those small victories.

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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

MARCH 25, 2014

We also had to create new content for the session and a unified theme, luckily Star Wars was easy to play with. During the session, we had to pull out some tricks of the trade to adjust in real-time when we behind our plan because of too much content. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. 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. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences. Then it was time for a simple exercise. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

While AI in training has been in action in learning and development teams for some time now, here is how AI is further influencing the space. 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.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

While AI in training has been in action in learning and development teams for some time now, here is how AI is further influencing the space. 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.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

While AI in training has been in action in learning and development teams for some time now, here is how AI is further influencing the space. 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.

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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. What metrics will you use to measure success?

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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. In other words, to what end?

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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. In half-day workshop (4-5 hours), I give more time for reports for each group.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We see it all the time in this modern internet age. That need being, how to motivate your workforce to action upon the training, as well as making said training accessible at any time, in any place. Imagine a comprehensive approach to facilitating once a day training within a short time window.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I also wanted to get a sense of what content to include, so I asked for burning questions I usually do that as an icebreaker in the room, so this will save some time. I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Comfort Levels. Also, the seating is fixed.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Learning and Development Trends We Will Keep an Eye on in 2024 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The corporate world is witnessing immense transformational changes in recent times. Mobile learning Mobile learning is exceptionally convenient for learners and, at the same time, offers enormous potential for content distribution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Learning and Development Trends We Will Keep an Eye on in 2024 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The corporate world is witnessing immense transformational changes in recent times. Mobile learning Mobile learning is exceptionally convenient for learners and, at the same time, offers enormous potential for content distribution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Learning and Development Trends We Will Keep an Eye on in 2024 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems The corporate world is witnessing immense transformational changes in recent times. Modern-day LMS excel in facilitating this process. Convenient and cost-effective distribution of the content.

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APRIL 22, 2021

External Consultants: These consultants are hired to work with your association for a set period of time and often work with a number of other organizations in the same capacity. A consultant with advanced knowledge of learning technology, instructional design, and learning business best practices can inform that strategy.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It’s a bridge connecting learners and educators, facilitating a seamless exchange of knowledge. This term represents a software platform designed to facilitate educational processes. It offers a framework that supports instructional design and delivers learning content to a broad audience. What Does LMS Mean?

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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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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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