I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. It has been over 10 years since I designed and delivered my first workshop/webinar on, "Designing Effective Technology Training Workshops for Nonprofits" with NTEN. Because … [Read more...]
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Trainer's Notebook: Integrating Thinking and Feedback Activities
Last week, I was honored to facilitate a workshop on best practices in crowd funding in Pittsburgh, PA organized by The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University in conjunction with its TechNow Conference (where I delivered the keynote). I've already shared a blog post about the content related to "Best Practices for Nonprofit Crowd Funding" that includes case studies, examples, tips, and resource links. Instructional design is more than just delivering the content, … [Read more...]
Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard
This post was also appeared on the MarketsforGood site as part of my regular column, "Between the Dashboard and the Chair." How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard Take a look at any nonprofit dashboard and the most effective ones probably have an organizational process that lies beneath. Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. Dashboard design should also inspire buy-in and continuous improvement by using “human centered design” … [Read more...]
How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings
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. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice. I use a simple … [Read more...]
Trainer's Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results
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. After the workshop in Ohio, one of the participants thanked me, saying that creating a strategy for integrated social media had been on their to do list after taking a workshop last Spring, but had never gotten around to doing it. She said the workshop gave her … [Read more...]
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