Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved. Photo by VaxZine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Dishwashing, door-opening robots: Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a method to teach robots to perform tasks like opening and walking through doors — and more. Elsewhere, we have some interesting cross-pollination between brain science and AI. Well, it’s not quite this simple. Such simple but necessary tasks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. You may feel at first this is an “extra” step or unnecessary. But, I do this for any training I do – whether alone, with other instructors or even an hour webinar.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later. was the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Last week, I was in London teaching social media strategy workshops for London NGOs organized by Social Media Misfits and keynoted Institute of Fundraising’s Future of Fundraising Conference. As many nonprofit professionals know too well, a hard-working but “tired” brain needs a few moments to “recharge.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. I did not eat chocolate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

They actively seek out stretch opportunities they know will be challenging—or even very difficult They value challenges and find them energizing rather than draining. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits.

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DataRobot

JULY 13, 2021

The study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to track participants’ brain activity and self-reporting from participants when they felt emotion. Teach your AI to recognize when customers are emotional and train it to adapt its responses. Consumers want your chatbots to feel more human, but not to look human.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Our team each has a personal calendar for their own appointments, we have a team calendar for activities that everyone needs to know about or participate in, and we have a “Days Off” calendar where people note dates or partial days they’ll be out of the office. I can do it even when my brain feels fried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

I strongly believe that people should not be left in sitting their seats with their laptops open for a training for more than 30 minutes at a stretch. It puts people to sleep and it isn’t very healthy. When I present content, it is done in an active way – participants get to move around, stand up, walk around, and move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. Active Learning Through Play: Another trick that I learned from Ellie was having toys on the tables for participants to play with. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The company totally backed me and had me flying around the US hosting these Excel training sessions because I just genuinely loved to teach Excel. He wrote, basically, “Hey, I love your teaching style. I host these different high-energy Excel parties, essentially, where I come in and I teach a ton of free content.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2017

You can make new friends and keep the old by engaging in a common activity like volunteering. When you assist others, your body releases dopamine in the brain, which has a positive effect on how you feel. Volunteering as a family is a great way to teach important lessons to your children. Teaches new skills.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Adaptability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

According to a 2022 PwC survey , 40% of companies are actively upskilling as they look to automate or enhance work through tech. Ng previously led one of Google’s AI research divisions, Google Brain, and briefly served as VP and chief scientist at Baidu.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Their program includes about teaching artists. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Each employee created their own plan.

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APRIL 8, 2014

Points of Light, the organization that established this program in 1974, says "National Volunteer Week is about taking action and encouraging individuals and their respective communities to be at the center of social change – discovering and actively demonstrating their collective power to make a difference.". Chris Lundberg, CEO, Frakture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

There are concise due dates for all of your activities, “this class occurs at this time on this date and these are the deliverables required to fulfill the requirements for that time period.” Be sure not to forget your teachings that have gotten you this far. Assigning Priority. In school, priorities are simple. Conclusion.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

Acknowledging this can help you realize its an active practice to deliver skilled managementand quite common for negative habits to emerge if left unchecked. In fact, most of them are good people with the best of intentions who unwittingly cross a tenuous dividing line between good intentions and bad behaviors.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 13, 2025

Our training pipeline first teaches the model about exploitable errors in RLHF reward models (RMs), then trains the model to exploit some of these errors. Then we (a) teach Claude 3.5 We first teach a model via training on model-generated documents that RMs make 52 certain exploitable errors. Haiku to exploit a subset of them.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

The stultifying, repetitive tasks teach you how to be more efficient and effective. And it tells people like me, who get inspiration and energy from working with visitors, that those activities are not a valued part of the design process or the workday. It clears the brain better than surfing YouTube ever can.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

While profiling the lives of Dance Dance Revolution addicts might be entertaining, I'm more interested in considering how the ubiquity of addictive play impacts the extent to which gaming is an educational activity. Addictive games allow us to wallow in skills we already have, to set our brains aside awhile and just do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate. Some people find mini-meditation to do the same – and there are lots of apps like Headspace that can help teach you to do this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. It doesn't need to be an all-consuming activity, but you need to decide who will do the heavy listening, who needs the know what has been said, and who is empowered on respond or act on the information. This requires stepping back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Rachel Calderon, Marketing and Communications Manager, Central Florida Foundation was a workshop participant and after the workshop we brainstormed a design for training her board members to be champions. She agreed to write up her process and experience – and especially grateful as I’m in London now teaching the same topic.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Oversees a team of nearly 160 staff in executing a diverse portfolio of fundraising programs and activities. Teach For America. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. Bernard Mauricia.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? Or is the web the dumping ground for activities too messy or uncomfortable to do onsite? You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. How does their work relate to their physical institutions?

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Manually generating reports, exporting them from your LMS, and submitting them to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS) is a complicated, precise administrative burden for your team to tackle. Your association needs to report to PARS for all accreditation activities.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. In fact, I’d argue that by saying “If something starts to smoke…” in the beginning of each workshop, I introduced an element of suspense to what otherwise might feel like a pretty “safe” activity—a museum program. What is active failure? * you lose ?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Each card features one exercise activity that uses your own body weight – no equipment necessary. "The problem is that trying to ''reduce'' stress is simply a waste of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

In 1998, I was teaching web strategy workshops in which I described a number of strategies for failure on the web. Q: When you say "a neat genetic algorithm of mine," do you mean your brain cells or an actual mathematical or AI formula? I will admit that I continue to be baffled by how long it's taken to catch on.

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