sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking Care of Yourself While Changing The World by Meico Marquette Whitlock and a foreword by Beth Kanter 3 Ways to Thrive When Your Work Doesn’t Love You Back You’re committed to making a positive difference in the world.

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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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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

I know you understand, and practice, this philosophy. And for many donors, giving is a reflection of who they want to be. You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. Alas, too many organizations lose sight of this culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. Single tasking – Do one thing at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

18 Minutes A Day: This method comes from the book 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. 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'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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Data Personal Support Exercise 128

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

The writing process for the book: Expository vs storytelling. Different brains – visual vs words. Three Themes from the Book: 1. As she started putting into practice some great listening practices, she realized that listening was the gateway drug for social media. Reflection. —— [link].

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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. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. Keep A To Done List: Most people write “to do lists” that are never ending.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

She recently authored an excellent e-book on how to use Evernote ). If the notes need to be in a digital format, the process of transcribing them gives me added reflection and thought time to digest the ideas. I also wonder if there is an impact on being creative?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. 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. I use pen and a note book to take notes! The Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? 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 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. Overworked new media managers often find it challenging to connect face to face, or they cannot quiet their mind long enough to read a book on the beach or watch a sunset. The will to engage and interact is drained, and procrastination sets in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. 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.

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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. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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India NGO Network Exercise 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

In the 90’s the world of productivity was revolutionized with principles like the 2-minute rule, a cornerstone of the Getting Things Done (GTD) a book and methodology created by David Allen. Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. The model is called “SAVI” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. PRIORITIES. Take a trend-line view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

The retreat curriculum is built around the a framework called “I-WE-IT” that covers mindsets and practical skills that today’s social change leaders of all generations need as we move towards more collective approaches. It can help apply improv to our work in social change by practicing what it means to have a networked mindset.

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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. As many of you may know, Aliza Sherman and are working on a book called “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Impact without Burnout.” Aliza Sherman: Practicing Mindfulness and Tech Wellness.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Reflect & Reconnect : How to take the right action based on what you’ve learned. Wetzler : Absolutely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. She talked about how it made her feel and her motivations underneath. He gave a review copy of his forthcoming book to everyone at the conference!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

I'm going to bring over video blogging kits - inexpensive cameras, rechargeable batteries, SD cards, and Ryanne's book. But, the brain fog has started to fade. Of course, we pulled out the digital camera because we're experiential learners and started to explore the ideas with hands-on practice. The back story is here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. Flickr Photo by udithawix. These skills are: self-management and attention training.

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Product Nonprofit Attention Skills 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So this is a super practical presentation. It was getting in the way of me booking those face-to-face meetings that I loved so much. . Take a minute to reflect. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain.

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Money Raise Video Brain 98

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So this is a super practical presentation. It was getting in the way of me booking those face-to-face meetings that I loved so much. . Take a minute to reflect. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain.

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Money Raise Video Brain 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

style and tolerance for change, I decided to do a seperate action learning experiment on my own dime and reflect in real time along with doing the work: What are some useful techniques social search techniques that might yield richer leads and connections? Is it worth it to integrate social search into your practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

Michael shared some insights into his writing discipline and practice, content filtering approaches, and observations of blogging by and about nonprofits. 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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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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