Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

One surefire way to ruin your sleep is to use your mobile phone as your bedtime routine. Many of us fall into this trap because use our mobile phones as an alarm clock. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. That is not a great way to to start the day.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

According to the Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project , “Compassion fatigue is a state experienced by those helping people or animals in distress; it is an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for the helper.” Get out of town.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Their mission is to reduce the suffering of persons affected by intracranial hypotension or spinal cerebrospinal fluid leak through awareness, education, support, advocacy, and connection. The name comes from the “dura” matter in the brain, which is where spinal leaks happen. and share via email and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It helped me become aware of my unhealthy habits and pivoting to more healthy ones, despite what some vocal critics of fitness trackers say. In fact, the “ blue light ”from our computers or mobile phones is known to disrupt your melatonin levels and delay the onset of sleep.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

Preparation and awareness are critical to successful improvisation." is a technique that slows the brain down. Move around before your next meeting, phone call, or presentation—pace, jump, or shake your limbs a bit, to get blood pumping more quickly throughout your body and increase the amount of oxygen to your brain.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. It also makes phone and video calls. It allows a doctor to be aware when a patient’s indicators are becoming concerning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have done conference calls on my mobile phone while walking. Then you remind yourself every hour (with an alarm on your phone) to stay on task. When the alarm goes off, you look at the your list and assess where you are. Still, you have to get stuff done. How do you procrastinate? How do you get work done? What is your method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One surefire way to ruin your sleep is to use your mobile phone as an alarm clock. According to scientific research , reading a tablet or mobile phone with its backlit display in bed can make it harder to fall asleep and your sleep won’t be as rejuvenating. That is not a great way to to start the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Make it a policy to have some white space as part of your week.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2012

Many of the conference workshops helped in making me more aware of how to become a technology leader, not only within our organization but in sharing what I've learned with 211s across North America. He was ahead of the game on advocacy and education through social media and awareness. Impressive is an understatement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Being online or living a connected lifestyle is something many of us do - and as smart phones, Facebook, ipads, and other technology tools become part of lives, we have to examine our relationship with them and find balance. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Be Self Aware of How/Why You Stay Connected.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

According to the brains of Wikipedia , digital footprints* are simply put “the trail of data that is left behind by users on digital services.” The list of what they’re tracking includes things like your username, password, gender, and phone ID. Casting Digital Shadows: What Is It, Really, and Remind Me Why I Care?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

What I mean is that I am focuses more on some inner awareness of when I’m just mindlessly browsing information or staring at the screen. 13% of adult mobile users use their cell phones to avoid people in real life, calling it “e-avoiders” 56% are confused about the truth because of the information overload.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Second, we are stepping up our efforts to increase the awareness of this critical issue and practical actions that can be taken. The information can then be erased from the phone, to safeguard it from the phone’s possible loss or confiscation. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. Social media's still pretty great, though, for raising awareness about your nonprofit, communicating with existing supporters, and listening to your community.). One is hiring. Another is surveys.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Several times a year, we take the opportunity to ask our readers to submit their own stories about how our organization has met their needs – it could be through a support group, a patient education event, or through a simple phone call to our office. Have a Brain-Dumping Session. We love having “brain dumps” in our office.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Events like GivingTuesday are helping condition people to give online and raise awareness about the importance of giving. Day 3 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 2 : You Can Change Your Story Speaker: Debra Askanase, Digital Engagement Strategist, National Brain Tumor Society. What data are you wearing and what is it showing?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

It’s one of the best ways you can spend your time, and truly, it doesn’t take a ton of time for a short phone call with a contact. Having both of these elements saves on the number of emails you need to respond to, phone calls to answer, or voicemails to return. You may ask. Below are a few ways you can do all of that. Eat properly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

My colleague, Brian Reich, offered a Brain Dump " post where he lays out how Facebook Causes can be a game changer in the future and what needs to change. Joe Green, one of the founders of Causes, spent an hour on the phone with me to discuss how they hope to work differently with the nonprofit community.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This doesn’t mean that you should talk down to your donors or that they’re unintelligent: it just means that they’re probably using their brain power for other things and quickly skimming emails and mailers. Email them and ask if they’d like to speak on the phone or meet in person, or catch them at your next event.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then another way we can help build brand awareness for the organization through our role as a board member is to allow the use of your name associated with an organization. So encouraging our board members and our volunteer leaders to engage with us on social media, again, really furthers our brand awareness and our audience as well.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Supporters can hop on their computer or phone and give immediately at any time of the day. Increase brand awareness. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. You can also launch mobile-focused campaigns to encourage supporters to use their phones to give to your cause.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Supporters can hop on their computer or phone and give immediately at any time of the day. Increase brand awareness. You choose a keyword related to your campaign and receive a dedicated phone number. You promote your keyword and your platform’s dedicated phone number to supporters. Give from anywhere.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. See how Well Aware personalized their ShowerStrike campaign using CauseVox’s easy-to-use tools: Tip: If you want to share or track your campaign across social media, try incorporating a hashtag. Consider this.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. There was also a session on creating email campaigns that increase donations and optimizing emails for mobile phones , which leads into the next takeaway. The conference was amazing! 6 Takeaways from #12NTC.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

I'm pretty careful about unplugging my phone charger when it's not being used, but it would be a heck of a lot easier--and more exciting--if I could see my energy use report at the light switch. alpha brain waves game I always see at ASTC. And if the games can raise awareness (and change behavior!) Who drinks the most water.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Donors can show their tickets at the donor via a printed copy or mobile phone. Do you think this type of event is an appropriate way to raise funds/awareness for this cause? Even better? How did you hear about the event?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We live in a world of smart phones, emails, text messages, Zoom, and LinkedIn. The objective was to write compelling collat­eral material to rebuild our brand, increase public awareness, raise money, and improve donor and volunteer relations. If you’re like most Americans, it’s probably been a while.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2016

These days are an amazing tribute to nonprofits and donors coming together to not only raise money (and they raise lots), but to also raise awareness of the amazing work nonprofits are doing to support their communities and make them better places to live. What happens if the phones go down?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

Her confidence and engagement methods and authentic relationship buildings get 10 donors on the phone fast, and they all participate in the challenge. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.”

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

Her confidence and engagement methods and authentic relationship buildings get 10 donors on the phone fast, and they all participate in the challenge. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” This is how Maggie approaches fundraising. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I As a Leader - become deeply aware of - and truly mindful about - the scope and reach of interconnected markets and flows of information.

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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. Awareness or Attention Training – How to keep your focus, especially when you are working on online. I stopped sleeping with my mobile phone and built in more time for morning reflection.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Is it phone, e-mail? If they have a phone number, I would call. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. And so do you have that sort of squared away on the roles and responsibilities and the processes? . And I think another important component is knowledge. What’s a good first step?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

International phone lines were jammed & I couldn’t reach my husband where he was working in France, to let him know I’d flown to LA, and I’d made it. Back then, he took comfort when he saw a small charge at a RadioShack in Phoenix, and rightly guessed we’d stopped to pick up cell-phone chargers.

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