Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We will be doing early morning sessions to engage participants in some mindful moment and movement exercises. I’m going to share different techniques for weaving mindful moment and exercises into your workday. You can practice these exercises alone or with your team. I also use them a lot when I doing full-day trainings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. ” It isn’t about making the time or thinking about physical activity or movement as a separate exercise time, but something that is integrated into your life – including work time. It’s not a luxury.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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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. Rather than placing the responsibility on individuals, this leader tends to place greater emphasis on group projects and tasks and lives by the adage “two brains is better than one.”. Interested in learning more?

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

It gives us a vacation from work and worry; it offers a chance to socialize with close friends and interesting strangers ( and, occasionally, a politician ); it helps us exercise our brains and our reflexes.

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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. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

Our brains perceive exclusion the same way they perceive physical pain, activating the same neural pathways. Its not a policy, slogan, or mandatory team bonding exercise. Cortisol levels spike, heart rates increase, and our nervous system shifts into fight, flight, or freeze mode. Belonging is deeply personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

But problems within the brain are more difficult to treat, and for stroke victims rehabilitation is largely left to the body’s own repair mechanisms. But medical science has no method for directly rebuilding those networks — the brain must do so on its own, in its own time. If you lose a leg, prostheses are available.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Brain Trainer by Lumosity. We use Brain Trainer by Lumosity, a San Francisco-based development group. I often find myself turning to the Brain Trainer app in the office to clear my mind before starting a heavy work-related task. If you have a group of people that likes to run, there is no better app to promote more exercise.

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Media Cause

MARCH 18, 2022

Although laparoscopic surgical methods have improved, and the stigma of discussing menstruation continues to be reduced, many who seek answers for life-disrupting period pain are often told to focus on diet, exercise, and stress management. . But how do you exercise when you’re doubled over in pain in bed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude.

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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. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Exercise not only benefits your body physically but mentally as well, improving memory and overall brain function. Who says you need to have an in-office gym to exercise during the day? Promote health (not only the mandated kind).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I asked Dr. Adler to give an example of the type of exercises the app would be able to provide. A values clarification exercise is an exercise that you might do with your therapist if you have one, and you can afford to pay $250 an hour to do that. What we’ve done is we designed one that is much more engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

If you start a positive habit and see that it has a positive effect upon your business or health outcomes, your brain is more willing to utilize resources to continue that behavior and scan for new ones,” said Shawn Achor , author of The Happiness Advantage. How to hit the positivity tipping point. Build strong social relationships.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

So, this exercise is also a marketing tool. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? These ideas may be obvious to association staff, but they may not be clear to the pundits you hope to attract. First, let’s make this distinction. You are looking for experts.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

There are primitive parts of your brain that control your reaction to threats on your reputation, making these reactions extremely difficult to control. What happens in our brain. When you think about negative consequences, a part of your brain, the hypothalamus, activates and triggers the pituitary gland to secrete the hormone ACTH.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Today's connections fall into the following categories: Yellow: Exercise classes Green: Sneaker brands Blue: Dunks Purple: _Quarterback Looking for Wordle today? There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints. Here's the answer to today's Wordle.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The core is effectively the brain of the system, with a processor and 1GB of RAM. It will be interesting to see if the Move’s lower price point will open Tempo’s market to include more casual exercisers. Up top is a “core” docking system for an iPhone.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

We create a story in our brain, because our brain actually processes information through story form. Here’s an exercise for cutting away some of the excess when attempting to get your story in front of VCs. Because as humans, we’re looking for the patterns in our communication. Timestamp 3:20). Get to the point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Per Interaxon: The Company aims to leverage these patterns through the development of groundbreaking metrics that will provide users meaningful insights into brain health and lifestyle factors (i.e., meditation, sleep, alcohol, stress, exercise, diet, etc.) that affect it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have been using this technique for the past couple of months to incorporate walking and exercise into my day. The benefit of moving around helps with concentration. Still, you have to get stuff done. Workstation popcorn is probably best suited for remote workers and people who work at home, but you can do it in an office setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

You simply will not know all there is to know about both worlds, and even if you do, it will be hard at times to turn your tech brain off while you explore the creative side of a challenge. You’re only human, but being human also means exercising a degree of humility. The trick is knowing how and when.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day. But there ARE huge, daunting projects and articles I need to write that I feel stumped about, and other very challenging activities that require a lot of creativity and brain power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Exercise and meditation aremy game changers. Who has the energy to exercise when feeling tired and worn down? in an effort to remember to drink water.). Make time for movement and mindfulness. These likely fall into the safety needs category of “health” in the second tier of Maslow’s hierarchy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

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. I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review. Photo by Gary Clark.

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