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 I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.

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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 I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.

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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 I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“ Rituals. (In

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. Those specific EI behaviors include: They believe that each new stressor offers an experience to learn, expand, and evolve. They can handle the discomfort of learning curves and uncertainty.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  You can help by ensuring that your ask is clear. Check out our last installment here !

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The inspiration was part The Lab Theater a place where you try out contemporary or experimental works before you bring them to the main stage and part peer learning program. Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It begins with learning, habituation, and cultural shifts to fully harness AI benefits responsibly. There’s also discomfort over the rapid pace of change and perceived steep learning curve while being overwhelmed with current workloads. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 9, 2024

Here are just a few guidelines to help you communicate in a manner that leaves all parties feeling understood, inspired and empowered. It’s how you move through the world: these unconscious responses allow your brain to process vast amounts of information about people you encounter at lightning speed. Opinions differ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Participants To Apply. Most likely, there will be some content delivery you share during your workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention and application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles. Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. How much do you retain?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I got to learn a few new tricks and continued to polish approaches already in my toolbox. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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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. Rituals to Promote Growth and Learning. All this can help humanize your workplace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

They demand the online giving experience to be nearly instantaneous, easy, secure, personalized, mobile-friendly, and reflective of your brand and mission. Here, we’re offering a roadmap to help you inspire generosity with a better online donation form. Their “secret sauce” for successful online giving? Want to know more?

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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. Many believe self-reflection and constructive criticism is the best way for us to grow as individuals. Interested in learning more? So what kind of a leader are you? Have you ever stopped to think about it?

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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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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

I know because I used to be like you , and I’ve helped countless changemakers just like you over the years improve their well-being so they could have a more sustainable impact in changing the world. You also know you must make time to rest, reflect, plan, and recharge. Here are three strategies to help you get started.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I’m finding it so helpful to learn about my team’s hopes, dreams and fears for the future. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? I learned that my team is resilient and proud of how they managed the last 18 months.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

And for many donors, giving is a reflection of who they want to be. The gift you give to this organization will no doubt help them and those who rely on them. But will it help you fulfill your potential? Plus, the Maimonides Ladder ignores a lot of what we’ve learned in recent years about the psychology of giving.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Nonprofit storytelling helps give a face and a name to the mission your organization carries out. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. What lessons were learned or what circumstances were shifted?

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. Thanks for providing this fantastic hub for learning and sharing NTC! As a small nonprofit we have struggled to fully engage with technology to help us fulfill our mission. It was a wonderful learning experience.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address. In other words, to what end?

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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. Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Moving around is better than sitting still to enhance learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

What have you learned, Dorothy? Glinda the Good Witch: ”You don’t need to be helped any longer. Glinda the Good Witch: ”You don’t need to be helped any longer. She had to learn it for herself.” ” Tin Man: ”What have you learned, Dorothy?” What have you learned?

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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 I’ve expanded my repertoire to train people on other topics (not just social media or measurement), I have learned how to create practice rubrics for other areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. This helps improve memory and synthesis. When you switch like that, you use brain cells and that is why we find our selves mentally exhausted before the end of the day. Write a to do list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. 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. My Theme for the Year: Learning. 2014 will be the year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. Helpful guide tone vs colorful and wordy. learning loops. Step 2: make learning in public less stressful, worst case scenarios and contingency plans. Step 3: Reflection – where the greatest learning is. Reflection. —— [link]. simplicity.

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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. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me. ” Content'

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. Camaraderie is one of the best learning opportunities. Most everyone in attendance arrived with the same knowledge base and eager attitude to learn together as these tools mature.

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