Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

In a research report called “ Exhausted But Unable to Disconnect, ” professors from Lehigh University, Virginia Tech, and Colorado State University found that an “always on” culture may prevent employees from fully disengaging from work, causing stress. ” Individual Techniques.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture by Laura Fredricks. Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. It humanizes your cause, evokes emotions, and makes missions memorable.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

The beautiful thing about surprise is it helps make things more interesting and sticky in your brain. This ‘stickiness’ happens because your laughter triggers the release of the pleasure chemical, dopamine, which causes you to have natural, drug-like, happy feelings and helps you remember what was said.

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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.” I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.). to help motivate everyone on your team with a leaderboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. (In But I like joyful which means experiencing or causing happiness for yourself or others.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Macular Degeneration is the leading cause of permanent impairment of fine or close-up vision among the elderly population. Individuals with central vision loss can therefore maximize their vision through a corrective technique called eccentric viewing. It’s called MagnaFlyer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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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. My tracker now comes with a feature that will notify me every time I need to do those 250 steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. (In Joyful means experiencing or causing happiness for yourself or others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

So, the real question is - if you have both of these types of tasks to accomplish- they take different approaches, probably use different sides of your brain, etc. I've been thinking a lot about this as a way to "time box" the listening and participation activities which can be open-ended and cause you to loose track of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Just ‘Cause: Can Technology Make Brand Irrelevant?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

One of the challenges faced by people with Parkinson’s disease is the possibility of “freezing” during normal movement, causing falls and lack of mobility. Studies have found a surprisingly effective technique for preventing this: cueing. De Oro’s device provides two such cues.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This year, we designed state-of-the-art serving techniques for large models , improved automatic partitioning of tensor programs and reworked the APIs of our libraries to make sure all of those developments are accessible to a wide audience of users. Bottom: Illustration of the CollectiveEinsum technique. Alpa overview.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 13, 2025

First, we conduct a blind auditing game where four teams, unaware of the models hidden objective or training, investigate it for concerning behaviors and their causes. Second, we conduct an unblinded follow-up study of eight techniques for auditing the model, analyzing their strengths and limitations.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

It’s important to know what causes burnout, the signs to look for in individual employees, and the responsibility of leaders to set an example. The pandemic caused additional burnout and stress as nonprofits had to pivot with less resources and rising cash flow issues. Compassion fatigue is real.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The final stages is the bonfire or what Parr calls long attention or your audience’s long-term interest in an idea, product, message, cause, or whatever. It is filled with the science and practical techniques to create a bonfire of attention — for anything – from a product to social change cause.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

As designers at Media Cause—like all designers everywhere—we are constantly challenging what has been done in the past in an effort to create something new or improve on what exists. . On a macro level, Design Thinking is more left brain, more logical, more linear. David Carson is more right brain, more intuitive, more imaginative.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

We all intuitively understand that bad data causes bad outputs. The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Your nonprofit can expand its reach and encourage additional contributions, and your supporters can more easily donate to your cause. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Encourage them to personalize their posts with details about their personal connection to your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique. Personal Productivity in Practice. .”

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Your cause is worthy. There's not much new brain work required, just re-packaging. Your work is courageous, compelling, groundbreaking. Your nonprofit is thriving and bursting with activity that should be shared with the world through any and every marketing channel available.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But I would say that what’s most important is that we’re actually rallying around a cause, a mission, a shared common ground. . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

It was a simple concept: every team member anonymously submitted one thing they felt was working well and one thing causing frustration. I’ve recently been learning HeartMath’s approach to building heart-brain coherence. So, I introduced a weekly stand up meeting.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This cohesive approach enables your supporters to contribute to your cause with just a few clicks. Featuring the button prominently and consistently creates a seamless user experience that encourages visitors to contribute to your cause.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Your nonprofit can expand its reach and encourage additional contributions, and your supporters can more easily donate to your cause. Encourage them to personalize their posts with details about their personal connection to your cause. The goal is that they’ll use their merchandise in public, spreading brand awareness for your cause.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Consider this.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I dont worry too much about how planet sized brains will shape galaxies in 100 years. A developer needs to argue whatever techniques M_1 agents apply to preserve their safety will be as effective as the techniques that developers would otherwise apply if humans remained in the loop. Thats something for AI systems to figure out.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Using the social web to market your cause, communicate your services, and interact with your audience is an important part of the. Here are several techniques you can use to strategically listen to and interact with the people you are targeting online: Know What People Are Saying About You. the perception of our organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? People generally know what it is that they SHOULD be doing, but what they ACTUALLY do is often related to things beyond the rational side of their brain. I see that you???ve

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Raising funds for a good cause and having the opportunity to earn bragging rights and a trophy?

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In particular, it needs: Consequentialism : some component of the AIs motivational system needs to be focused on causing certain kinds of outcomes in the world. Coordinated power-seeking occurs when different AI systems are working together to cause a given form of problematic power-seeking to succeed.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 17, 2025

2 infinitude spreads An endeavor being infinite often causes other related endeavors to be infinite. like, a structure in the brain?". But okay, we can probably indeed also take an interest in stuff that's "more in the brain". In particular: If E is an infinite endeavor, then "how should one do E ?" is also infinite. [18]

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

It has caused lots of folks to reassert their values and what matters to them. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? You are so welcome, Lindley. So it is Q&A time.

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