Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Rituals are also 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. This can be done in less than hour and can reap many benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Participants worked in groups to identify the benefits, tangible/intangible value, and financial analysis. But the best part was the chance to work with Ellie Schindelman , director of education, who is a dynamic trainer – on the design of the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, 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. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. ” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. The study and presentation begins with some context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. 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. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Year in Review.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Most nonprofit professionals can relate to the idea of wearing many hats, some of which we don’t always feel super confident with, which is where a quick, no-nonsense guide to nonprofit storytelling can come in handy. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story.

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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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JULY 12, 2016

The benefit of starting from a long time instruction-led situation is that these same instructors know your target demographic, what works for them, and what seems to get swept under the rug. Professional Drive. Elearnings as a package can be one of your greatest allies in the world of professional development. Adaptability.

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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. People who can bridge networks – fill structural holes – stand to benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. 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. Teaching: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Year in Review.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

I suspect my experience is not unique to lawyers, and can be extrapolated to other professional service industries. Accountants, marketers, and consultants across industries focus on relationships, not pure transactions, to build fruitful professional relationships. Treating Donors Like Customers (But Not in a Bad Way).

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Rather than go on about Fundwriter’s benefits, I asked Fundwriter to write about itself. Fundwriter is a writing assistant for nonprofit professionals. Fundwriter is trained by veteran nonprofit professionals and fundraisers to follow proven writing models that work again and again. was the nonprofit. Fundwriter.ai

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. Specifying benefits will often push a donor to the next level, especially if he sees that his money will stretch further at higher levels. I think most of us can say we’ve been on both sides of the ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. 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. After all, fundraising professionals don’t simply rely on direct mail anymore.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. Specifying benefits will often push a donor to the next level, especially if he sees that his money will stretch further at higher levels. I think most of us can say we’ve been on both sides of the ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter. many have professional day jobs as attorneys, accountants and technology workers???find Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. If the programs aren't about skills, are they a professional gateway? The only benefit her degree got her was 25 cents more per hour. She reflected and said that she would always prefer someone with interesting, diverse real-world experience over someone who just has a graduate degree.

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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. What I want to share to you is for development professionals on the call, I would note that there are ways for your leaders to support philanthropy at every stage of your donor journey. It’s how my brain works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

During 1995 and 1996 I found myself in the position of being the person best informed about the Internet in my professional nonprofit circles. The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

These days, you don’t have to be tech-savvy to have a professional-looking campaign but you want to be sure that it makes a lasting impression and is effective at getting people to take action. Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Brain science and the science of learning are dynamic fields with constant advances being made. If you’re going to “go beyond” in getting to know your participants, you’ll need to make room for discussion and put some reflective listening to use. Bonus benefit: this also ties into the science of adult learning.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said.

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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. The advice in this post is a compilation of suggestions offered up by social media professionals involved in Ryan’s Google+ community.

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