Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” ” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? Mindfulness'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. There is the mind-body connection which boils down to taking care of yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They 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. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review. My Three Words.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But recently she was overhearing aggravated remarks from staff: she wasn’t paying attention to them, she was missing appointments, and forgetting to discuss important points at meetings. The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 9, 2015

Indeed, if one were to track all the time in a workday spent glued to our incoming messages and bowing to the attention they require, the resulting accumulation of hours would no doubt seem ridiculously exhaustive. After all, anyone can zip through their messages and take an “out of sight, out of mind” tact towards email management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 20, 2016

Here are some tips to keep in mind and implement whenever possible. • And keeping in mind that smartphone, tablet, laptop and desktop screens are getting more hi-tech all the time—and that Internet speed are getting faster and more efficient—don’t be afraid to begin utilizing high-definition imagery in your website design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

Train Your Attention: Maybe you have no intention of “working” when you aren’t in the office, but you have become so accustomed to constant distractions, that regardless of you are doing, you are mindlessly tapping on your emails, texts, and social media icons on your phone. Next, focus on training your attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works. There are three stages starting with ignition, what captures immediate attention. It is based on reciprocity.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Keeping a task list can save you time and clear your mind. By batching calls or writing, you can actually be more productive since your mind is already in the mode for getting that kind of task done. The problem is that “Update the website” is too big of a project and your mind doesn’t know where to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

The benefits of taking control of your digital life in and outside the office are immense: greater presence and mindful attention, enhanced productivity and creativity, better relationships, improved sleep and less risk of anxiety. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Wetzler explains that the only thing that allows you to understand what’s on another person’s mind better is just asking them. Zip your lip.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Have you exchanged data with like-minded organizations to grow your impact? They use this information to identify loans that aren’t getting as much attention and promote them on their platform to increase their visibility. The UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center improves treatment guidelines using insights from machine learning.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Does negativity and alarm really raise funds?” —John, CEO of a civic education nonprofit Dear John, This is a top-of-mind question for many fundraising professionals. Science says: We’re wired for negative Sadly, our brains are wired to respond to negative messages. Negative events impact our brains more than positive events.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. The rational part of a donor’s brain still mediates the action evoked or prompted by the emotional part through values and learnings. Emotions are fundamental to get donor attention and prompt actions.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Written by a master storyteller, this book shows you how to use stories to get people’s attention—and their donations. Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron. Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller.

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JULY 13, 2021

But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Try managing your hardest work days by plotting out what you will do when in a way that keeps your brain going for the long haul.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Many of these opportunities are not as lucrative as the ones that business owners and technologists have focused on over the last decades, but they still demand our attention. Perhaps, but when you use your heart, you don't have to check your brain at the door. Philanthropy? Bleeding hearts?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Told well, stories will grab people’s attention and compel them to take action. . Here are some ideas for useful content that connects your mission to what may be top of mind for your supporters right now: Human services.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

When a donor reads your year-end appeal, their brain is working fast to answer this question: “Is this for me?” The more personalized your year-end appeal is, the better chance you’ll keep the donor’s mind and heart engaged. Attention to detail is great but perfectionism is a killer. Get that post up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

These are best of breed young hackers doing what comes naturally, incited and incented by blazing connections, motivated collaborators, cash reward challenges and future employers’ avid attention. They want their brains to matter. Campus Party is cheap. Food for a week cost another $80.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Being Present means paying attention to the people in front of us, focusing on the tasks at hand, and managing our emotions in the moment. Your team can do a simple mindfulness exercise by starting a meeting with a deep breath and going around the table to share how you are feeling in the moment. Create Device Free Zones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits.

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APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

It has intruded on our attention and wellbeing – and helped blurred the lines between work and leisure time. I’ve found that it lights up different parts of my brain and helps think more creatively than starring at a screen or typing. Doing so, will help improve your sleep which is essential to being healthy and happy.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?” You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

And surfing is fun—not easy fun that gets boring quickly, like tic-tac-to, but the kind of “deep play” that requires total attention in the present moment, and makes every moment feel incredibly full and rich. We can’t stop the waves of change, so we’d better all learn to surf them. And people who play in this way require plenty of rest.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

it in your mind. Trying to hold an employee’s attention during a discussion where there are. attention to an employee when your brain is fixated on another issue can insult them. important issue consuming my attention and I’m afraid I will not be able to give you my full attention.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Then came in social media as an effective mechanism to be able to catalyse change.Maybe the attention its got is relatively new but no denying that its become today such a strong change maker. Here's her theory of change and social media: Social Media was at one point of time just about what we read or saw in news or heard over the radio.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. I am the one who, with the interests of the sustainability of my own small organization in mind, refused. I’m in an absurd position, personally. 4 Sonia Lyris 04.09.07

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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. You may have trouble keeping your mind off work. Just sitting still and doing nothing can be just the right thing to do as your brain adjusts to not working. That’s right!

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Kindful

MAY 26, 2021

Notice how subconsciously your attention was just hooked? Sometimes without even noticing it, our brain is activated in a unique and engaged way when a story is being shared. A good story allows organizations to build those relationships, win hearts, change minds, and prompt action. It’s brain science.

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