Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I’ve been working in the nonprofit sector almost 35 years and 20 years ago I had the a front seat at the creation of a new field, nonprofit technology and using the Internet for mission driven work. My first job was as a network coordinator for an online network of artists, called ArtsWire. My job responsibilities: designing and delivering (..)

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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. What are the challenges that nonprofits and the people who work for them face when confronted with failure and how to change that? Beth Kanter, Learning from Failure. Erin Shy (@ErinShy) March 10, 2013.

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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. What are you focusing on for 2013?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

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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. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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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. What part of the workshop was most useful to your work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are working very closely with Dr. Yasmeen Qazi who is the Pakistan Country Advisor and her very talented team members, Dr. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs. Program Design. 2. Design for Organizational Reluctance. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. However, it is harder to make pivots when you have a team that has not worked together before. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions?

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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. For this exercise, it would have been helpful to have people in each group with some prior real life experience designing an ROI study. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits.

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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. Sue Kraemer. Kristin Adderson. January 8, 2021 - 3:49pm. January 8, 2021.

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Or, do they need to change their mindset, such as revising their habits and lifestyle to work from home successfully? Design a course that targets that change. For the work-from-home example, this could be a simulation that walks through how to design the perfect home workspace. Decide how that change happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. A simple hmm… often works. People can work alone, with a partner or small groups of three or five or larger. Part 2 offers checklists and reminders for these basic skills. This includes: 1.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Learning Objectives: Understand why it is important to incorporate social media tools in your instructional practice for trainings. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. I’ve been working program and instructional design, facilitation of peer calls and workshops – in collaboration with the fantastic team at Spitfire. Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? So rather than using a search engine to find data or content and assembling it, you can have generative AI do some of that assembly work for you. Adding sources: You can prompt the tool to enhance its own work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. Here are some thoughts about tweaking the instructional design: Game Length and Instructional Context. People with communications orientations work with research in different ways than program people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

I’ve done this for many projects and it is a difficult design task when you are doing it as the sole trainer. It is more difficult when you have a short amount of time and a lot of content – and coordinating with other trainers. It worked, but it would be great to have more time. The Art of Good Openings and Closings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. The skill building sessions focused on content optimization for integrated social media channels and working SMARTer with social media – time saving tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Year in Review. My Three Themes: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. I had to do this through translator do, but it worked. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. ” This helped shift the energy and energize.

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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. We are working very closely with V.S. Program Design. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Exploring the Impact of AI on Learning and Development in 2023 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - AI has been at work across different industries to optimize efficiencies, improve outcomes, and drive innovation and profitability. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Exploring the Impact of AI on Learning and Development in 2023 GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - AI has been at work across different industries to optimize efficiencies, improve outcomes, and drive innovation and profitability. are now on their way to transforming how learning experiences and instructional designs are curated and created with AI.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

Exploring the Impact of AI on Learning and Development in 2023 Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems AI has been at work across different industries to optimize efficiencies, improve outcomes, and drive innovation and profitability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. These amazing activists work every day on the front lines of communities across the U.S., One might think, oh no, this is impossible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2005

My colleague, Cheryl Hanback, is working on a project for her masters degree in instructional design. Since at the time I was working with artists, would often start with having them draw a picture of what technostress looked like. I introduced them to basic ergonomics and resources like: [link].

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This has allowed s everal edtech startups to develop digital platforms that have, in some way, seen thousands of Africans receive better learning and work opportunities. However, with e dtech being Africa’s eighth most invested sector, according to this report , its startups have their work cut out for them.

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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. 534 is the average total amount raised by an individual.

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Association 4.0 TM podcast

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Robb wears many hats, overseeing education, program creation, instructional design, accreditation, and online learning, all in the pursuit of advancing healthcare and professional development. Robb Rabito shares insights into the organization’s work and the profound impact they have on the world of chest medicine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together.

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sgEngage

APRIL 25, 2022

Your e-learning content development partner reviews the training content you already have and works to understand your goals for the course. . Design and develop course prototypes. The partner creates a prototype of the course to illustrate key design elements and the overall direction of the course. . Project start-up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. “I kissed a squirrel & I liked it” #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong. Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. Also, Randi Zuckerberg is working on a book on the impact of ”networked people” called “ Dot Complicated “). Instructional Design Notes. An effective digital team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. My Three Words.

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