Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Here are two more tips for productivity routines: Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Looking Ahead Rituals. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists. I’ve also use the looking ahead technique to block out vacations, schedule medical appointments, and family occasions.

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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. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

For example, if a user fails at logging in 10 times over five minutes – chances are it’s a hacker’s bots. Password examples to avoid: admin123. This technique makes it very difficult for a hacker’s software to guess because the words are random and unique – making them resistant to attacks. Ilovemydog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo. Bullet Journal is done by hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Use Learning Theory. Documentation.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. For example, if you want to raise an additional $155,500 next year, you will probably need to increase the number of donors you have. For example, how many new donors do you expect to acquire? Your Organizational Goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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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.” They can also automate turning off alerts and other distractions. Freedom and Concentrate (for the MAC) are two examples.

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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. To make the workshop interactive, I spent a brief amount of time presenting the what, why, how, and examples of target audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. 3. I had a brave volunteer from the audience and we did a role play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. Take for example, when was the last time you consulted a paper map for driving directions? Here are a few other techniques that don’t cost anything: 1. Last March, I tucked my mobile phone into a sleeping bag (see above) and turned off the screens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, 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. With icebreakers, for example, you can use counting off or alphabetical order.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention. Parr shares two examples of a fundraising pitch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? Train the brain to deal with chaos.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks. The bots, ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing are examples of this technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? This was followed by each couple talking from the heart about their experience working together or presenting some examples of their work.

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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 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

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Create A World Fusion Curriculum.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Examples of the impact of digital evolution on behavior and life are plentiful. The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. Building blocks based on point-and-click or drag-and-drop techniques, allow anyone to become a developer. Will your next conference venue be the metaverse.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. It also will change the types of skill sets that nonprofits will need now and into the future, for example “Data Analysts.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. It strikes me that Zappos might be a great example of lethal generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Reading through 400+ session proposals made my brain hurt, but at the same time pumped me up. See real-life examples that will help you better understand how to tell your own stories through data buried in all of those rows and columns. Be inspired, delighted and thoroughly entertained with unforgettable eye candy examples.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The first example gets the message across, but it’s somewhat dry and dull, and the donation request feels like a gentle suggestion. On the other hand, the second example uses urgency, a timeline, and power words to inspire immediate action. What key ingredient is missing in the first example? Tell compelling stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Nonprofit social communications wizards share examples and tips to get your fans mobilized for action. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. After hearing a story from a peer. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). each of various qualities. More here ). * The mindshift to be successful. Performance ???

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) For example, we don’t have a TV at our house. to create the resiliency you need to combat stress. You actually have to go out of your way to make a choice that’s not in alignment with your goals.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

And while I’ve been exploring venues , situations , and apparel that serve as social objects, I’ve found few examples of explicitly designed social objects. For example, my dog , while a highly evolved social matchmaking device, is not deliberately designed for that task. I want to aggregate all the data, synthesize it and share it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. I used the example from the Facebook Birthday campaign. I used the example from the Humane Society's excellent social media work.

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