Note from Beth: This one of my favorite photos of a workshop I designed and facilitated at SXSW called "Peer Learning Session for Nonprofit Social Media Managers." The idea was to get folks who do social media for nonprofits sharing best practices about social media adoption and culture change by balancing brief content delivery with lots of interaction. This was a face-to-face session, but the learning was extended online afterwards, albeit briefly, in an organic way on twitter using a … [Read more...]
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Social Media Dashboard DesignTips from the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Note from Beth: After a brief conversation about new ways to access web-based "visitors" in the comments section of a recent blog post on dashboards, Dan generously offer to write a post about developing an in-house dashboard as part of his work at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The post provides some great recommendations on dashboard design, but also illustrates how to link your objectives, metrics, and KPIs to dashboard design. Guest Post: The Smithsonian Institution Archives … [Read more...]
Dashboard Design Principles
Dashboards are a nonprofit's best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization's important measurement data at a glance. If a dashboard fails to tell you what need in glance, then you've wasted all that data collection time. What if you married with the power of a dashboard with visual design? Maybe you are scratching your head and thinking, but I'm not a visual designer. (I'm not either) The challenge of good dashboard design is that you have squeeze … [Read more...]
Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences
If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It has been over six years since I designed and delivered my first webinar/conference call, "Designing Effective Technology Training Workshops for Nonprofits" with NTEN. Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used … [Read more...]
E-Mediat: A Simple Design Process for an Online Learning Community Site
This second post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For context, read my earlier post) One of the project tasks is to develop a multilingual online learning community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Meedan, an implementation partner, is … [Read more...]
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