Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. So, you have to design for that. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

And that’s why I love teaching and training because it is all about the learning for both you and the participants. No matter what flavor of facilitation you put into your toolkit, there are some facilitator fundamentals and skills that facilitators need. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills.

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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. Training Design'

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. Additional training to individuals can also assist in expanding their knowledge on certain subjects that may be beneficial to them in the future. ASU Lodestar Center. In today’s world, job roles are constantly changing and new challenges arise in the workplace.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Tableau Academic Programs Instructional Designer. Working with data is a necessity for most jobs, and analytical skills can be a huge differentiator for success across all kinds of work—whether corporate, nonprofit, or academic. Without closing the data skills gap, these challenges would continue into their professional lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2013

We many not be able to do visualization like a data scientist, but having a basic literacy in visualization skills can help work more effectively with data geeks and navigating our work. I’m writing this post from Tunisia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2010

Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. 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 think you can design around it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many nonprofits are interested in using e-learning to train staff members and volunteers. It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. Staff and volunteers can access the training anytime and anywhere. You design courses that specifically target what the learner needs.

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Candid

MARCH 31, 2025

Nonprofits can maximize participation by encouraging potential volunteers to take advantage of paid volunteer time off, asking for skills-based volunteers, and helping connect companies to local communities. Designing engaging and effective learning experiences. What would quality training for volunteers look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

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. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

What do your nonprofit training efforts look like right now? Why not use it to train your team as well? Let’s walk through the benefits of using technology in your training strategy and how you can create e-learning courses that make an impact. What are the benefits of a tech-fueled approach to nonprofit training? “If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Over the past year, participants have been getting comfortable with social media skills, being strategic, making them a habit, and first steps with measurements. Training Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In fact, generative AI has been known to be trained on biased information. Participation in the arts also develops essential life skills such as communication, teamwork, and discipline. Participation in the arts enhances confidence, self-esteem, and crucial life skills like communication and teamwork (Burton et al.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Innovation Lab Facilitation : For the past few years, I’ve trained in and designed and facilitated innovation labs using the Luma Institute Methods. Instructional Design and Facilitation: I love teaching and exploring different ways help nonprofit professionals learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. Training Design'

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Given the impact and promise, the use of artificial intelligence in training is also increasing. Managing workplace shifts like the move to hybrid work also places a heavy focus on training initiatives to help accommodate change and build a thriving enterprise.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Given the impact and promise, the use of artificial intelligence in training is also increasing. Managing workplace shifts like the move to hybrid work also places a heavy focus on training initiatives to help accommodate change and build a thriving enterprise.

Learning 52

Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Given the impact and promise, the use of artificial intelligence in training is also increasing. Managing workplace shifts like the move to hybrid work also places a heavy focus on training initiatives to help accommodate change and build a thriving enterprise.

Learning 52

Learning Impact Develop Instructional Design 52

Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

An Expert’s Guide to Training Evaluation: Requirements, Models, Levels, and Challenges GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Business organizations nowadays utilize a variety of training methods to ensure that they keep improving. Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

An Expert’s Guide to Training Evaluation: Requirements, Models, Levels, and Challenges GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Business organizations nowadays utilize a variety of training methods to ensure that they keep improving. Now, within an organization, employees improve their capabilities by learning new skills.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

An Expert’s Guide to Training Evaluation: Requirements, Models, Levels, and Challenges Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Business organizations nowadays utilize a variety of training methods to ensure that they keep improving. Training Evaluation: What is Required?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

It is always important to look at the challenges of adoption of improving organizational processes or individual skills, especially if they are new. It should always accompany the tips and how tos. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas. The Five Stages of Social Media Measurement Love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. With more time, would have done a set of three looking experience/skill, comfort, and communications/program. Tags: training materials. Making New Connections, Reinforcing Old Ones. PopTech is an.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions. Breaking a large group into small groups for an exercise is also instructional design challenge. This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

In addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. 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 19, 2024

MYTH: LMS makes it essential to hire third-party experts Hiring an instructional designer or a third-party expert is not essential for every training session. This will make it easy for anyone in your team to modify or design the training content. However, this is not true.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

MYTH: LMS makes it essential to hire third-party experts Hiring an instructional designer or a third-party expert is not essential for every training session. This will make it easy for anyone in your team to modify or design the training content. However, this is not true.

Learning Management 52

Learning Management System Learning Management 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

MYTH: LMS makes it essential to hire third-party experts Hiring an instructional designer or a third-party expert is not essential for every training session. This will make it easy for anyone in your team to modify or design the training content. However, this is not true.

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