Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

They are attentive to their communities on an almost daily basis. Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Effective social media managers enjoy engaging with and responding to comments on social media sites. But that era is over.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Most importantly, we’ve seen the results of working without a set schedule in the quality of our work, our productivity, and our health. Your body keeps track of time in a section in your brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or SCN). Forcing someone to work early (or late) doesn’t necessarily lead to better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The Flipped Classroom is mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning. It’s being done in elementary, high schools, and colleges. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Actually, they are triplets because Microsoft has a bot named Bing, who receives less attention. The results are amazing when you consider that a machine can write a social post or a campaign promotion in minutes. Pick the Bot’s Brain AI powered chatbots learn from user interactions. Check Bing out.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. First, pay attention. Communications/philanthropy—Use analytics to forecast campaign results, segment audiences in unique and impactful ways, and craft individualized appeals referencing past interests and behavior.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It helps avoid burnout and improves attention. One of the science-based findings identified that online meetings get the same results as in-person meetings when everyone turns on their video cameras. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. It may become your new norm.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

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. Imagine if instead it read, “1 in 10 people lack access to clean drinking water”. Can you visualize what 50,000 looks like?

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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. As Mann notes, “It’s about how to reclaim your email, your attention, and your life. That ‘zero?’ That’s it.”.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The video is an animated sketch and includes some quirky-looking characters: This video caught my attention because it looked different and I wanted to know what would happen next. The beautiful thing about surprise is it helps make things more interesting and sticky in your brain. The result was magical.

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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. Before the redesign, the results were presented in a text-heavy format.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Anacostia Riverkeeper’s team regularly tests the water quality, but current methods take days for the results to come back. This delays when the results can be shared with the community, which is problematic because test results can become outdated quickly. coli levels in the water are at unsafe levels.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. Since negative information draws greater attention, many may believe it has greater validity. This might be why bad news seems to garner more attention.

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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. The result is a model much better at parsing multi-subject prompts. Elsewhere, we have some interesting cross-pollination between brain science and AI.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

One of the science-based findings identified that online meetings get the same results as in-person meetings when everyone turns on their video cameras. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

I call it the brain. This is the team that pays attention to the details. After a year of work, we were able to successfully launch and implement the product which resulted in us giving out more than $1m in scholarships in the year of implementation versus the previous year when we did not have the software in use.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 20, 2016

And when you have the bulk of your attention-getting content on your homepage you can control the story-telling aspect of the site, educating readers quickly about the issues at hand and what your organization is doing to remedy a particular situation.

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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. Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

We know the struggle—you just took the perfect gym selfie or picture where your results are popping, but what on earth are you going to caption it? You don’t want it to seem like you’re bragging but still want to draw enough attention to those gains, so they don’t go unnoticed.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Strands requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

The reason storytelling is so effective at capturing people’s attention is simple. In fact, our brains are hardwired to respond to stories. In addition to navigating through your own website, this person is likely scrolling through many search results to find out more information about your organization. It’s human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

Collaborative overload is the burnout that results from our over reliance on e-mails, meetings and other online collaborative technology tools that have, ironically, limited our ability to get stuff done. Next, focus on training your attention. Is it habit or are you addicted to getting the notice that you have mail?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2020

million tax-exempt nonprofit organizations , and many have to compete for the attention of the public and donations. Thanks to neuromarketing, organizations can promote their brands based on the way their target audiences’ brains work. Time limits: Another way to trigger the brain is to set time limits. There are more than 1.5

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This handy guide includes ready-to-use phrases that are sure to get results in your annual appeal—and in any other fundraising campaign. Help donors find and give to your cause online Fifty-five percent of people who interact with a nonprofit on social media take action, and of this group, 59% consider donating money as a result.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 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.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

Nonprofit organizations often measure fundraising results such as donation volume, engagement on social media , and participants at fundraising events without knowing why people take these actions. The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. Understand Donor Values.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. Like Wordle, you can share the results with your friends on social media. 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.

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