The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Studies have shown you work at highest brain capacity, with your best focus and attention, before lunch hour. By keeping this in mind, you can dedicate your mornings to your most brain-busting work, and schedule mental breaks for the afternoon when your attention span is already at its lowest. Before 12 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. The attention chapter is about why and how to control your attention when you’re online. Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

But the reality is, you probably made a mistake in buying those things and it literally hurts your brain to come to terms with that fact. Your brain views the loss of one of your valued possessions as the same as something that causes you physical pain. Clutter’s impact on your brain. Why Apple wants you to touch its stuff.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Use numbers: Our brains can understand it more easily. Story-telling is in fact the most powerful way to activate our brains. This Neural Coupling modal describes it best: The same emotional areas of the brain are activated in the listener, that the speaker experienced as he tells a story of an event: 6.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Once you wrap your brain around these truths about what funders want to accomplish with their giving, you can begin to shape the message in your Letter of Inquiry that’ll give them exactly what they want. Is there a problem you can reveal that needs immediate attention but that no one is really paying attention to?

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The Next Web

JUNE 22, 2013

Keep an open mind when consuming feedback. Only change your pace for the criticism that you feel is most on-par and worthy of your attention. Are you right-brained? It’s time to take on some left-brained hires to encourage balance. Avoiding any unwanted criticism will only drive you toward startup failure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

With this in mind, try and show that other people are supporting and/or donating to your cause. This simple word change has huge implications on gaining the attention and support of audiences. Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

There’s a lot of confusion there, so what, in your mind, beyond just, “Can you sleep in it?” Do you have to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel or not? Is it hands off, mind off, or not? Do you have to pay attention and keep your hands on the wheel or not? Is it hands off, mind off, or not?

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 Soren welcomed everyone and asked to be totally present and give full attention – which is becoming rarer and rarer at conferences. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). The participants spent two nights in a sleep lab where the researchers measured their brain activity, looking at alertness and ability to concentrate. Night owls vs. early birds. An un-timed break.

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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

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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

There are primitive parts of your brain that control your reaction to threats on your reputation, making these reactions extremely difficult to control. What happens in our brain. When you think about negative consequences, a part of your brain, the hypothalamus, activates and triggers the pituitary gland to secrete the hormone ACTH.

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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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Get Fully Funded

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

But I fear that reviewers will be less inclined to spend nearly as much time and attention if their work goes increasingly unread by the average shopper. Elsewhere, we have some interesting cross-pollination between brain science and AI. Snapchat parent company Snap later confirmed it was a bug. Well, it’s not quite this simple.

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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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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words."

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

Add in news sites, cat videos, promo emails, memes, and podcasts, and you quickly understand why organizations struggle to attract attention. According to John Medina, author of Brain Rules , we retain 10% of its information three days after reading text. billion pieces of content and thats on just one platform. Thats a big jump.

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The Next Web

MAY 11, 2013

What do they pay attention to when making such decisions? Do keep in mind that what may be disruptive and novel today may only be a button on a page tomorrow, shifting investors’ attitudes accordingly. Take it this way: venture capitalists are paid to act on a point of view, ideally one that proves profitable. Just one thing.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the end of the year approaches, the pressure is on to convince potential donors that your nonprofit deserves their attention. Weve rounded up some general guidelines to keep top of mind as you spin up different subject lines: 1. For example, our brains are hardwired to involuntarily respond to seeing or hearing our own names.

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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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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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Get Fully Funded

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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