Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

My bullet journal also incorporates “looking-ahead” rituals linked to my calendar. Sometimes I use part of that free time to take a little walk around my desk to reboot my brain. I’m overwhelmed getting back into the daily grind, how about you? I look ahead on a monthly, weekly, and daily basis.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. How Can I Download the Calendar ? What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar? The Neon One 2024 nonprofit calendar highlights U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

Both an installation artist and photographer, Naomi was the founder and director of The Cradle Project , a large scale installation calling attention and raising funds for the 48 million children orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over 550 cradles were created and donated by artists around the world.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. We like Google Calendar since you can see it on your computer or phone, and once you start building your team, you can share calendars. Start filling your calendar by scheduling any important meetings or calls. Below are a few ways you can do all of that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Just because the default setting on your calendar software is for 60 minutes, it doesn’t necessarily mean you need the full hour. Sound familiar? Establish Look Ahead Team Rituals .

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Postcards don’t take up much space, and an attention-grabbing photo can convince supporters to hold onto it and keep your nonprofit in the back of their minds. . ?. . Calendars have a unique advantage over other mailable deliverables—if your supporters use them, they’ll end up staring at a reminder of your nonprofit every day.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. But mark the rest of your days on your calendar at the beginning of the year, just like you mark your campaigns and events. That’s right! But, no one is waiting for this email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. One key idea in the infographic is the fractured nature of the modern attention span. So, how can you design those face-to-face experiences so they are more micro? Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

This helps you also broaden your overall outreach, as communicating with donors on multiple channels and showing consistent attention to detail can go a long way towards converting new donors while also solidifying your relationship with your current ones. . CharityEngine’s nonprofit CRM guide. Offer multiple engagement opportunities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It is all about managing your attention. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. What you give your attention to, is what determines your experiences. Jacobwith, Firestarters, shared some really great tips about using your online calendar and Evernote. What is personal productivity?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. ” These small yet impactful design choices can make a significant difference in capturing the attention and generosity of potential donors. Make your website keyboard-friendly for individuals using assistive technologies.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Begging for your attention in its boldface type. In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. Meanwhile, emails with the word calendar had the worst performance rates at just a 33 percent open rate.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Begging for your attention in its boldface type. In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. Meanwhile, emails with the word calendar had the worst performance rates at just a 33 percent open rate.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. ” Tech ROI means paying attention to the data that’s coming in and taking action based on the information that your technology is serving up to you. Start with five that you should be paying attention to regularly. Be nice to your people. Here are the metrics.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. Early preparation will also allow you to prepare your core campaign tools, such as: Your donation form Social media calendars Email series. Pay attention to what different segments of your audience need from you. Plan your marketing thoroughly.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

At the same time, the study of LLM brains, and especially, mechanistic interpretability, seeks to discover how a model executes a given task. This has parallels in studying biological brains and minds. This is the algorithmic level : it describes the algorithmic details of how a system works (Marr, 1982).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

But given the realities of today’s 24/7 world, you’re grappling with how to keep up, make a meaningful impact, and live a fulfilling life with so many things competing for your limited time, attention, and energy. But you look at your overflowing email inbox and overloaded calendar and wonder—When?! Start with your top two.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Working online can contribute to the state of overwhelmed and distracted – so having attention skills is also a leadership competency. To put this context, a gold fish has an attention span of 9 seconds! Attention span is the amount of concentrated time on a task without becoming distracted. Take a guess.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Then pay attention to which stories people respond to. Create a Fundraising 101 calendar for the year.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. Now, 50% of people pay more attention to direct mail than to any other marketing channel. Why do we need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

If you don’t have clear priorities, your attention is more likely to be hijacked by your email or some other distraction. In other words, when I look at my calendar, do I actually have enough hours in a week to accomplish the priorities I’ve identified or am I’m trying to do too much at one time?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . It is as hard and as easy as putting the meetings on your calendar and showing up for them. . An important topic that I don’t think gets enough attention. Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. ” 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. Are you interacting with donors daily, weekly, monthly, never?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. You want to make a note of this in your file, on your calendar, some kind of system that you have. I will send you all the chats and the questions here because there’s some really good stuff and there’s attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. In this time in the Christian liturgical calendar, we've been talking a lot about the disciples, and what's been happening to them.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . We are competing for attention at a level we have never seen in our lifetimes. million organization, $900,000 of that is philanthropy, and you’re at the end of your calendar year and so far you’re at about $790,000. ” Thank you.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. In this time in the Christian liturgical calendar, we've been talking a lot about the disciples, and what's been happening to them.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

What we are building is your second brain, your aide, your consigliere, your reliable chief of staff in your pocket. In 2023, Google merged the company with another AI arm, Google Brain, to form Google DeepMind , with Suleymans fellow cofounder Demis Hassabis as CEO. Suleyman struggled to rally support. That was really on me, he says.

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 3, 2025

The third generation of the device, which debuted in late March, represents a radical rethinking of what a smartphone can and should do, cutting off users from distracting features while directing them toward simple tools they need to thrive in a digital world, like a phone and a calendar. The Light Phone 3 is intentionally boring but useful.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 5, 2025

About a decade ago, a wave of anxiety that smartphones were damaging our brains and, especially, our childrens brains hit the tech industry. Its almost like fitness tracking for your attention. You can also use widgets for basic info like your calendar and the weather so you dont have to open the app.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

It can, like, go out to, like, um, let's say a model project's website and see, like, Find a calendar. So just pay attention, you know, there's gonna be quite a lot of stuff coming Devindra: up. Um, they just flew out of my brain. The second way is this thing that sounds very familiar. Cherlynn: I love Mala project in New York.

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