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. Not sure what data visualization technique to use? Thats a big jump.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Here are two more tips for productivity routines: Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Looking Ahead Rituals. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists. I’ve also use the looking ahead technique to block out vacations, schedule medical appointments, and family occasions.

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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?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

” Individual Techniques. 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.

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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. But Virgin’s safety video was different.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

Colors direct our eye movements, and therefore our brains and attention. You can also grab attention with dataviz-dense reports , data placemats , infographics, interactive dashboards, or scratch-off graphs. Try the layering technique or the slow reveal. Colors can make or break a chart.

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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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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. Healthy Mind Platter. I got a copy of the book.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Understand the Two Different Types of Attention. I've been looking for ways to reduce techno stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. These participants clearly understood the concepts of making a ROI case – and how to transfer those techniques to social media. Having a metaphor, made it easy. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Detailed below are some techniques and tools that, once armed with, will enable you to thrive in the space in between. You simply will not know all there is to know about both worlds, and even if you do, it will be hard at times to turn your tech brain off while you explore the creative side of a challenge.

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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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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Given the attention that Data gets from the media, influencers, and the hill, we believe that every communications department is obligated to look closer at their data and how they are using it - and should be tapping into it to get work done towards your organizations goals. Focus their attention, and they'll get it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I've taught webinars and workshops on how to design and deliver effective training sessions and have written a few blog posts on training and presentation techniques. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

Now that task has been checked off my to do list, I am ready to pay attention to technology wellness again. It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. Here are a few other techniques that don’t cost anything: 1. That task required a screen! Set Your iPhone to 1995 Mode.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Posted by Peter Mattson, Senior Staff Engineer, ML Performance, and Praveen Paritosh, Senior Research Scientist, Google Research, Brain Team Machine learning (ML) offers tremendous potential, from diagnosing cancer to engineering safe self-driving cars to amplifying human productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Given the attention that Data gets from the media, influencers, and the hill, we believe that every communications department is obligated to look closer at their data and how they are using it - and should be tapping into it to get work done towards your organizations goals. Focus their attention, and they’ll get it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Adept’s ostensible differentiator is a brain trust of AI researchers hailing from DeepMind, Google and OpenAI. Vaswani and Parmar helped to pioneer the Transformer, an AI architecture that has gained considerable attention within the last several years. Transformers made general intelligence tangible for our field.”

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Given the attention that Data gets from the media, influencers, and the hill, we believe that every communications department is obligated to look closer at their data and how they are using it - and should be tapping into it to get work done towards your organizations goals. Focus their attention, and they’ll get it.

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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. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique. Michaela Monahan, Big Duck blog, discusses the technique of tracking your time.

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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? Two important tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

As my work as a trainer pivots more towards leadership development in a networked world, I’ve been doing more and more training on the topic of mindfulness at work techniques. This particular study attracted a lot of media attention and I read through about 50 different online articles and posts.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 9, 2024

As a fundraiser, your job is to understand the perspective of potential donors by shifting the lens of authentic attention via listening and open-ended questions — at the right place and at the right time — to become partners and allies in improving the world. Do you project positive qualities onto people without knowing them?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2016

PDM incorporates the 15-minute technique of tip #1 and a simple journal system of tags for recording current tasks and managing distractions. Taking a five-minute break before starting a new task can help decrease the impact of "attention residue" on your productivity. I call it The Perfect 15-Minute Day Method (PDM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Some may think that tweeting during a workshop may take away from learning or paying attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

These skills are: self-management and attention training. ” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. What is more important is managing your attention and energy. That translates to redesigning the way you work.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

And even though it may be more work in the short term, it will save you time in the long run by focusing your attention on the things that matter most. We have found that the process of listing your resources in a clear, organized manner can help you wrap your brain around how you can go about raising the funds needed.

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