Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Now that we know what the research says about the benefits of rituals, nonprofit leaders should view the creation and fostering of rituals as essential, whether for the entire organization, your department, or team. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

Specifically lacking in research on community development are the practical steps towards diversity and equity. What are the tactics and structures one must incorporate into their nonprofit models to ensure they are doing their due diligence to collaborate and share resources with nonprofit agencies of all racial and ethnic make-ups?

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Even before the pandemic, research and market forecasts projected the online education market to reach $350 billion by 2025. These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. It provides specialized programs and degree programs in collaboration with partner universities.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Even before the pandemic, research and market forecasts projected the online education market to reach $350 billion by 2025. These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. It provides specialized programs and degree programs in collaboration with partner universities.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Even before the pandemic, research and market forecasts projected the online education market to reach $350 billion by 2025. These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. It provides specialized programs and degree programs in collaboration with partner universities.

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Gyrus

JUNE 18, 2023

Even before the pandemic, research and market forecasts projected the online education market to reach $350 billion by 2025. These platforms also facilitate instant feedback loops and provide opportunities for participation. It provides specialized programs and degree programs in collaboration with partner universities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

According to 2019 research by Meredith Kavanagh , nonprofit leaders believe that some of the top investment priorities for their organizations that year were more advanced technology (e.g. Nonprofits should be highly encouraged to facilitate the use of new platforms of service delivery to increase their impact.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Create a written plan.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine. He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. In 2012, Howard Rheingold facilitated the production of the “ Peeragogy Handbook ,” a practical how-to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Another nonprofit furthering research behind games and learning is the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Universal City Studios, Inc., Publishers provide more than 80% of the thousands of books added each month to the virtual bookshelves of our online Bookshare library, under voluntary permission agreements modeled after the Chafee Amendment. This ruling by the Supreme Court in Sony Corp. of America v.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. Note that there was a research study at Hebrew University published in Curator last year about improving a nature center's tour engagement and content retention through exactly this technique.) But participatory facilitation can be taught. I avoid them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. He draws on his work with many talented entrepreneurs (the founders of Yahoo! Schroeder calls this The LeanModel Framework.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! I agree we need more of these model communities. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Cora graduated from Regent University with a master’s degree in organizational leadership & international business. Digital marketing consists of advertising campaigns that include targeted research and outreach segmented by geographic location, demographics, specific interests, and more. What is Digital Marketing? So, Now What?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

That expedited route includes fostering entrepreneurship by facilitating the introduction of product and service “ rough drafts ” to customers, and then, based on feedback, swiftly adjusting—or dumping—them. Schroeder calls this The Lean Model Framework. and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success.

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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. Graphic Facilitation Rocks. The cards include a set of "people cards" which includes snippets of market research. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Having graphic notes during the workshop was an asset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Fundraising Software: Fundraising software facilitates donations, fundraising events, and other online fundraising activities. In our research, we found that up to one-fifth of an organization’s revenue is raised in December alone. Scalability One issue that nonprofits may run into is sudden surges in donor activity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

More importantly, it means that we should be looking to their model to push ourselves in how we think about delivering the most engaging, powerful content possible. We are finally leaving behind the 18th century model of education where groups of students are expected to learn at a standard pace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Youth Connection, Part I: Field Building with University Students Moderated by Katie Salen (Parsons, the New School of Design) Description: Aside from creating "future leaders," let's talk about what University students are already contributing to social change gaming by creating a new kind of gaming environment.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

While there is no universal set of truths about user adoption (it inevitably depends on your needs, goals, users, and other situational variables), there are some tricks that we’ve discovered along the way! Facilitating and moderating discussions, forums, and other online interaction. Model Wanted Behavior.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways. These kinds of participatory projects can actually de-motivate because participants can''t possibly measure up to the display model.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

Image Source A Learning Management System (LMS) is a software application designed to facilitate the administration, documentation, tracking, reporting, and delivery of educational courses and training programs. A wide array of industries implement LMSs to facilitate learning and development initiatives and drive organizational growth.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Research / #DoGoodData2016 / @DA4SG. MECLABS / Las Vegas, NV / Less than $1,700. Apr 19 - 21.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

Let’s explore some common applications of LMS: Onboarding and Training LMS facilitates seamless onboarding processes by providing new employees with essential information, training materials, and assessments to acquaint them with organizational policies, procedures, and culture. Which Industries Are Using LMSs These Days?

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2024

Let’s explore some common applications of LMS: Onboarding and Training LMS facilitates seamless onboarding processes by providing new employees with essential information, training materials, and assessments to acquaint them with organizational policies, procedures, and culture. Which Industries Are Using LMSs These Days?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I don’t know how you find the time to do this, Elizabeth, in addition to your full-time job which is a lot, but you’re also an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. As I shared, I’m a Senior Vice President at CCS and an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania. So a little bit more about me very quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week, I was honored to deliver the lunch keynote at the 2014 TechNow Conference in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University. (My If you are the person tasked with supporting this team, remember you have to model enthusiasm and make it contagious.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fundraising Tools: Most nonprofit CRMs also come equipped with fundraising tools that facilitate donations, both online and IRL (that’s “in real life,” for those of you who don’t speak Internet). As you assess how different platforms deliver on those five questions, you should also consider other factors that lie beyond the system itself.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I’m a big believer about putting things into the universe. We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Flipped Classroom Model: With a student-centered approach and inclusive learning mechanisms, the traditional classroom model has gone through a complete shift. In a flipped classroom model, students can engage with learning materials before the class, making in-person sessions more valuable.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Flipped Classroom Model: With a student-centered approach and inclusive learning mechanisms, the traditional classroom model has gone through a complete shift. In a flipped classroom model, students can engage with learning materials before the class, making in-person sessions more valuable.

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