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

MARCH 8, 2010

I like to use videos as part of the instruction to trigger discussion or something at the end as a group bonding mechanism. You need Powerpoint 2007 and a live Internet connection in order to make it work. This trick, along with being able to Tweet from Powerpoint is definitely going into my Trainer's Bag of Social Media Tricks.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. It is designed to be used with Microsoft PowerPoint. Pros Ability to create quick and easy content Easy to use if familiar with PowerPoint Affordable e-learning authoring tool 4.Cons

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. It is designed to be used with Microsoft PowerPoint. Pros Ability to create quick and easy content Easy to use if familiar with PowerPoint Affordable e-learning authoring tool 4.Cons

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 18, 2023

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. It is designed to be used with Microsoft PowerPoint. Pros Ability to create quick and easy content Easy to use if familiar with PowerPoint Affordable e-learning authoring tool 4.Cons

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Learner Culmination and Celebration.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

There’s no need to waste time cutting and pasting data from numerous sources into Excel or spending an entire week per month creating KPI reports in PowerPoint. Make use of programs or tools that do the majority of the work for you. When firms have to put in so much time and effort to track KPIs, they finally give up.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

There’s no need to waste time cutting and pasting data from numerous sources into Excel or spending an entire week per month creating KPI reports in PowerPoint. Make use of programs or tools that do the majority of the work for you. When firms have to put in so much time and effort to track KPIs, they finally give up.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

There’s no need to waste time cutting and pasting data from numerous sources into Excel or spending an entire week per month creating KPI reports in PowerPoint. Make use of programmes or tools that do the majority of the work for you. When firms have to put in so much time and effort to track KPIs, they finally give up.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. out of 5 Pros Ability to create quick and easy content Easy to use if familiar with PowerPoint Affordable e-learning authoring tool Cons Only supports local installation Lacks advanced features 4.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. out of 5 Pros Ability to create quick and easy content Easy to use if familiar with PowerPoint Affordable e-learning authoring tool Cons Only supports local installation Lacks advanced features 4.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

If you don’t have or can’t afford an in-house instructional designer or a developer to design and develop the courses you need. out of 5 Pros Ability to create quick and easy content Easy to use if familiar with PowerPoint Affordable e-learning authoring tool Cons Only supports local installation Lacks advanced features 4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community. When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Audience Research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

You can find the presentation here and accompanying blog post, How To Think Like A Nonprofit Instructional Designer. Death by PowerPoint: C’mon you know the look: Save your monologues for the stage. Note from Beth: Last January, I put together a train the trainers session for nonprofit trainers. Don’t just talk at them, interact!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2015

Check out our Microsoft Publisher: Reach Out to Donors piece for step-by-step instructions on how to get going quickly with the application. You can save entire PDF files or just selected portions of them as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel documents, retaining layout, fonts, formatting, and tables. The admin fee is $45.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Use video, PowerPoint, or other visual aids to help tell the story of why your cause is important. Make sure that you have everything you need to make your event successful, including clear instructions on how to donate. . “ To help make your fund-a-need appeal as compelling as possible, remember that visuals are key.

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DNL OmniMedia

JULY 14, 2021

Elevated Engagement and Interactivity: At Artisan, we worked with the American Red Cross to transform a less-than-engaging PowerPoint into a self-paced e-learning course. Amy started with Artisan as a contract writer/instructional designer. With these tips, you’ll create e-learning courses that are valuable and engaging.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Read step-by-step instructions for customizing the Ribbon in Office 2010. Get tips, tricks, and shortcuts on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and tracked changes from this series of posts. We know you may use it every day, but you can use it even better. Get the most out of Office with the resources below to help improve your office.

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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. Develop a first draft of a crowd funding strategy for their organization.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Gyrus

APRIL 14, 2015

How many of us have had to sit through PowerPoint presentations, and thought a picture would work better, or watched a training video and wanted the steps and instructions written down? The point is that I sought out different types of materials in different mediums: print, discussion forums, tech manuals, pictures, and videos.

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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. 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. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn.

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Forj

MAY 15, 2018

Some eLearning businesses are best off using the basics: webinars, PowerPoints, in-person instruction. The AMS is generally one of the most important technological components of an association, making it important to ensure other software programs can integrate with your AMS. No one learning technology is right for every organization.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Web Courseworks’ consulting services elevate this solution even further, as your team can access instructional design services, SME management, course pricing assistance, and more. Convert existing PowerPoint files into interactive video elements. Quickly author content by enhancing existing content, such as PowerPoints.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

Many of my presentations are training, so it is also thinking through the instructional delivery. Tags: powerpoint. Next month will include NTEN's NTC. I love doing presentations, the preparation, creating the content, and the performance. How have you resolved those issues?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He offered these step-by-step setup instructions. Note that these instructions are for Windows MultiPoint Server 2011. For a quick overview of the installation process, see How to Install Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 (video) and Interns Guide to MultiPoint Set Up (PowerPoint). Learn More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

It was particularly rewarding to see instructional techniques (the social media game ) that I had developed and been using since 2007 used by someone else. We lost electricity and could not use the powerpoint. One of the fun parts of the project for me is the opportunity to observe other trainers and learn from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I have been processing my experience and wanted to reflect more on my instructional practice, something I used to do regularly. I also thought of a book title from about ten years ago called " Learning and Forgetting " I went a little overboard on the 80-plus powerpoint slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2006

It came from Richard Van Eck's presentation "An Instructional Designer Looks at Digital Game-Based Learning." On pages 20-22 of the mega huge powerpoint bullet points [link] Was Gagne's Nine Events and how games embody them. Learning Retention Rates Originally uploaded by Eric Rice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I play a little PowerPoint Karoke. 6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. That’s why you need energizers. Movement can really help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Presentations and instructional content are an important part of my content strategy and the lifeblood of my work as a trainer. Slideshare helps set my work free and share it with nonprofit professionals all over the world. In the long run, they are helping to make the world a safer, fairer, healthier place to live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

It really helped me think through the final instructional delivery, specifically how to manage popping between the powerpoint slide and sharing the desktop (web browser) and how to integrate participation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

I wrote a post about how to create a content inventory several years ago in case you need some instruction. Messaging hierarchy – Word doc or PowerPoint deck. If you ever plan to redesign your website, the best thing you can do to prepare is to create (and maintain) a content inventory. Page Description Diagrams – Word doc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. This is a powerpoint that Cheryl Hanback and I used to lead an N-TEN Affnity Group of technology trainers at last year's Nonprofit Technology Conference.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

When contemplating their favorites, they likely thought about which books were in their minds the best, most favored, most inspiring, most instructional, most relevant, and which ones they might reference frequently. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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