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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Corey Pudhorodsky who is the and brains behind 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals. and he has promised to me sound smart and articulate!). I'm on a little podcasting kick here.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

People crave a clearly articulated goal to connect with and promote. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side. Before you begin reaching out to supporters, your campaign needs a clear target. This is important both for making a clear plan and for engaging the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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 This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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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 I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

also supports the impact of physical documents as our brains comprehend text better when it’s printed than when it’s on a screen. Some nonprofits even send annual calendars as a way to remind annual supporters to make their year-end donations. . GivingMail’s guide to digital campaigns.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

If you arent wrestling with the words to perfectly articulate your emotions, are they even real? If you arent wrestling with the words to perfectly articulate your emotions, are they even real? Who hasnt wracked their brain for the perfect mix of language and emotion? Will you even remember how it all felt?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

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. Self-expression is such a powerful thing to see and having people articulate it for your cause is the holy grail.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Clearly articulate lessons learned. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. “It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. Put these lessons to use immediately.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Clearly articulate lessons learned. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. “It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. Put these lessons to use immediately.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2020

Clearly articulate lessons learned. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. “It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. Put these lessons to use immediately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session. The most critical thing that distinguishes brainstorming from other types of facilitated group activity is the absence negative feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. Live Blogging Conferences.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. Images lend more evocative value to your content and allow you to better articulate brand messaging. ” is front and center on the flyer.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

As one researcher at Google Brain Montreal, Nicolas Le Roux, commented on Twitter: “My submissions were always checked for disclosure of sensitive material, never for the quality of the literature review.”. Despite the anger and sadness articulated by many researchers The Verge spoke to, others were more ambivalent about recent incidents.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Being a good communicator involves more than just good articulation; it’s about understanding your audience. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. On Gail Perry’s Fired Up Fundraising Blog, she reminds all fundraisers that it’s NOT all about you. Tell stories. Evoke emotion. Ready for this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

A workshop that simply attempts to stuff content into people’s brains is highly ineffective. The curriculum incorporated “overnight” reflections everyday as well as many exercises to help process what they learned.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This is because our brains process them almost instantly. Once you’ve assembled and articulated your nonprofit’s stories, use your silent auction software to segment emails, create a dedicated event website, and send out promotional texts to your contact list. Incorporate compelling visuals.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

But as much as fundraising is a calling, it’s also a career that requires business development, sales, client retention, and articulable value propositions. Demonstrate (and articulate!) Otherwise, wouldn’t we all go make a lot more money in the corporate sector? Treating Donors Like Customers (But Not in a Bad Way).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This video of Mary Beth Westmoreland and Steve MacLaughlin forecasting how and where nonprofits, technology, and even user experience will intersect during this upcoming year is total brain candy for anyone in our space. Relevant even for a nonprofit designer like me.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This video of Mary Beth Westmoreland and Steve MacLaughlin forecasting how and where nonprofits, technology, and even user experience will intersect during this upcoming year is total brain candy for anyone in our space. Relevant even for a nonprofit designer like me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! Defined Audience.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

It encourages brains to come together, keeps everyone rowing in the same direction, and brings a laser-like focus to hitting those big, audacious goals. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

And then of course there are blogs, in which millions of people are airing their brains out daily or weekly for everyone—and anyone—to watch and comment on. In other museums, I don’t get enough and I feel lost, like there’s something beautiful nearby but I can’t quite see or articulate it.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And then you also need to be able to articulate that, without fundraising or without a steady income from which to draw upon, you could cease to exist. It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. Do you publish your annual audit results?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Is that when fundraising expectations are clearly articulated during recruitment 52% of CEOs report that their boards are actively engaged in an organization’s fundraising efforts. It’s how my brain works.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

like, a structure in the brain?". I find it somewhat askew to speak of structures "in the brain" here would we say that first-order logic was a structure "in the brain" before it was made explicit (as opposed to a structure to some extent and messily present in our (mathematical) thought/[reasoning-practices])?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Being a good communicator involves more than just good articulation; it’s about understanding your audience. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. On Gail Perry’s Fired Up Fundraising Blog, she reminds all fundraisers that it’s NOT all about you. Tell stories. Evoke emotion. Ready for this?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Expectations are critical for healthy relationships and so being able to be clear on those two things as a manager will also give your team members freedom and agency to be able to create boundaries and to be able to articulate expectations they might have because that’s the relationship aspect around time management.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. Where I’ll say to somebody, “You know, you’ve been so articulate about why you care about the work, would you write a testimonial?”

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Our brains crave predictability. Organizations must be able to articulate the “why” behind their DEI commitments in a way that resonates with diverse and sometimes resistant stakeholders. By articulating the why, organizations make DEI compelling, tapping into our intrinsic motivational brain networks.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

U3 distills itself into numerous forks ranging from tiny, low-memory neural networks that need to think for a long time but can be run in massive parallel populations to Goliath brains woven with millions of specialized experts, which think at lightning speeds but are spread across thousands of GPUs. Setting all of this up is stupidly easy.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Inner Portrait , a new documentary from Turkish Airlines and media artist Refik Anadol, helps us visualize and articulate the change we feel when traveling, backed by data and technology. See how travel changes the brain This documentary does more than capture these first-time travelers' experiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Clearly articulate lessons learned. Its our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, well be embarrassed or judged. Its how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference. The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. Put these lessons to use immediately.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Published on February 13, 2025 6:39 PM GMT Introduction I have long felt confused about the question of whether brain-like AGI would be likely to scheme, given behaviorist rewards. I claim that brain-like AGI is a not-yet-invented variation on Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (RL), for reasons briefly summarized in Valence series 1.2.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 7, 2025

But sometimes my tired and overstretched brain needs help synthesizing, and I’m grateful for the tool to be able to take a heady, complex question or issue and compress it into a more or less understandable response that I can adapt, correct, personalize, and use.

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