Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Not to mention, most of us are also staring at a small window of ourselves, making us hyper-aware of every wrinkle, expression, and how it might be interpreted. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Taking time to reflect on what makes you successful as a leader can be an important exercise in helping you grow. Many believe self-reflection and constructive criticism is the best way for us to grow as individuals. It’s what it takes to elevate the morale, psyche, and the quality of those around. So what kind of a leader are you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. It is my hope that with Twestival Local, even nominated causes which aren’t selected as a final recipient feel an impact in awareness. . So, can we have a Twestival every week?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Not to mention, most of us are also staring at a small window of ourselves, making us hyper-aware of every wrinkle, expression, and how it might be interpreted. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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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. As Nilofer Merchant points out in her popular Ted Talk, “sitting is the smoking of our generation.” Again, my Fitbit was really useful in helping me to become aware of my habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

You start each day writing down the three most important tasks on your to do list and reflecting on it for 5 minutes. Capacity Reflection' Still, you have to get stuff done. So, it is important to not only to understand to why you procrastinate but to catch yourself in the act and make a shift. How do you procrastinate?

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Haymakers for Hope’s mission is to give everyday people the chance to fight back against cancer by training for, and competing in charity boxing events to raise money and awareness. Consider inviting your supporters to spend time with your staff and advocates, attend organizational meetings, or register for special networking events. .

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

No matter what the issue is, if people can see themselves, their families or their neighbors reflected, they are more likely to act for good. This is what generates the awareness of the social issue and elevates its importance in that moment above so many other causes. This tells the brain that others believe like you do.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress. It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. Kicking Your Mobile Phone Addiction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Flexibility. Co-Creating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. PRIORITIES.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 6, 2010

Our brains are designed to help us find more of what we are thinking about, so we are constantly scanning our environments to try to find and create what our thoughts reflect. Anything we think about, our brain tries to find for us. The belief often goes out of awareness. We create what we think about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. A second discussion panel looked at Awareness and Wisdom in the Age of Technology and included Kaitlin Quistgaard (Yoga Journal), Tami Simon (Sounds True), Gopi Kallayil (Google) and Leah Perlman (Facebook). Be Self Aware of How/Why You Stay Connected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. Self-Awareness and Assessment. Train the brain to deal with chaos. Many of us work for nonprofits because we are passionate about social change missions. ” Model and encourage well-being practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

While I was well aware of this research, after lengthy business travel this fall where I used my mobile phone as an alarm clock, I found myself slipping back into that very bad habit. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. I don’t feel so immediately frenzied.” What about you?

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. The team at goldextra took a completely different approach to awareness building with their game, Frontiers. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2009

The article and subsequent blog posts prompted more reflections (summarized here ). 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. I'll boil it down to " Causes is A Friending Tool, Not A Fundraising Tool."

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. posted by Joseph Garcia Director of Communication, ASU Morrison Institute Director, ASU Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They are reading it to read it--to learn, absorb, and gain awareness of new things. But I'm not planning to shift all of my writing to this kind of personal self-reflection nor to the hyper-provocative content of the Zombies post. Blogging can be a wonderful way to take time out from your life to reflect, even if no one reads it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. Ruben Huele can be reached at ruben.huele@xs4all.nl.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

It encourages brains to come together, keeps everyone rowing in the same direction, and brings a laser-like focus to hitting those big, audacious goals. It should be aspirational, inspiring, and reflect the positive change you seek to create in the world.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. 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. It’s how my brain works.

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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. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation by Beth Kanter. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. 1) Email is Hot.

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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. Update: Reflections on May 3rd from Civicore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

But how are you measuring along the ladder of engagement – from awareness to conversion to donor. How do you report, reflect, and revise what you’re doing? charity: water is a nimble and fast moving organization and our approach to measurement reflects this. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Reflect diversity. Let’s take a closer look at how you can choose visuals that do just that by supporting your mission and helping to grow awareness of your cause. Reflect diversity. That’s why you should choose website images that accurately reflect the diversity of your organization and surrounding community.

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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. Mindfulness and Reflection – How to use these techniques to help keep your focus. Awareness or Attention Training – How to keep your focus, especially when you are working on online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

m reading and two or three pieces of content flow up from my network that begin to click together in my brain like magnets, making connections. None of us possess all the of the nine multiple intelligences -- but if we are self-aware we know which ones we can use to enhance our writing process. Flickr photo from Markopolos.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The board’s mindset should reflect current business dynamics and its demographics should mirror the social and cultural landscape. There is a welcome post-pandemic trend to make demographic diversity a top priority and to think of the board as a brain trust that represents the members’ boldest ideas and vision. is a heavy lift.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. And I think another important component is knowledge. So check that out.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. So get out your journals and start taking note. Who shares your nonprofit pond?

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