Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. ” So, I like to share a few of my favorites that I have inspired me in my instructional/training practice. Training Design' By Dave Meier. By Vicki Halsey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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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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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Communication Design Program Build 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This would require clear instructions on the outcome of the peer coaching and to provide some instructions on the right balance between listening and telling.

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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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Social Media Media Management Social 102

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

JANUARY 8, 2013

What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Tunisia Technique Instructional Design NGO 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. This year SXSW is offering something new: workshops on a wide range of topics from some of the top people in their industry. The workshops are included in the price of an Interactive, Gold, or Platinum Badge.

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Interaction Nonprofit Social Media Measure 105

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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Program Reflection Social Media Instruction 78

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.

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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. As a facilitator, speaker, or trainer, when in doubt get them to move.

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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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

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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Channel Social Media Wiki Instruction 87

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. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed.

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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. I wondered about a creative way to use already collected burning questions without taking up instructional time to rehash them again through an icebreaker. Comfort Levels. It's 90 minute workshop and there's a content to cover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Train Training Reflection Resource 101

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. Instructional Design Notes. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. Being Data Informed.

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Social Media Digital Media Mobile 117

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. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Train Training Reflection Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

How do you facilitate others on staff to create content when they might not be have strong content skills? What tools do you use to manage the your editorial calendar and content creation process? The ideas were interspersed with examples from participants who shared “ Living Case Studies.”

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Network Strategy Learning Build 98

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

You can also learn about how Candid plans to leverage AI to enhance data organization, streamline search processes, and facilitate intelligent funding connections. Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? Read more about AI on Candid insights here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

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. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. If you know me, sticky notes and marker were also involved.

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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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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.

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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.

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Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table.

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Social Media Reflection Social Media 95

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.

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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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Leadership Develop Exercise Israel 50

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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NGO India Network Social Media 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment.

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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.” Next Janet shared examples of empowering questions that help facilitate listening and coaching.

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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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Train Training Brain Nonprofit 50

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We are not all instructional designers, and even when we are, there is a chance that on our own, we are unable to truly capture the requirements of the learners within our organization. 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, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Reflective listening skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a team meeting, training, or interacting with co-workers and whether you are the facilitator or a participant.

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