Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. Help donors find and give to your cause online Fifty-five percent of people who interact with a nonprofit on social media take action, and of this group, 59% consider donating money as a result.

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Free Help Fundraising Storytelling 114

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.” Talking VS Listening.

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Content Learning Brain PPT 133

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2020

Thanks to neuromarketing, organizations can promote their brands based on the way their target audiences’ brains work. Thanks to technologies like EEG and fMRI, scientists learn more about the features of our perception, and nonprofits can use this information to come up with the most effective marketing tactics. Author Bio.

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Brain Ratio Audience Causes 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Dubbed “Brain Hacking,” this 60 Minutes piece aired last April,sheds light on the problem from researchers. ” The presentation inspired with Ted Talk and then a popular Medium post that discusses how interface design influences people’s behaviors. Makes you wonder what they know that the average user does not?

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Social Media News Media Social 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

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. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” I also acknowledged Giuseppe Mauriello, another curator on Scoop.It

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Content Brain Technique Lecture 98

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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

Professional 117

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

Your visitor’s personal information is valuable to hackers because it can be sold in bulk online for a lot of money. The nonprofit was in the middle of a fundraising event and people were trying to purchase tickets during the attack. WordPress files you want to save: Database – the brain and circulatory system of your site.

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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. Your mobile phone is an Internet and information appliance that you may depend on to navigate through your daily life. Here are a few other techniques that don’t cost anything: 1. Set Your iPhone to 1995 Mode. Kicking Your Mobile Phone Addiction.

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Tech Phone Mobile Technique 81

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.” ” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness?

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San Francisco Work Help Tips 122

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. However, participants had to do this with people shaped sticky notes and a speech bubble. There was a lot of snapping.

Learning 88

Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 88

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. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Monica Wahengbam.

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India NGO Network Exercise 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. 17% of adult mobile users have distracted by their device and bumped into people.

Brain 105

Brain Mind Offline South Africa 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Crash Course: Social Media for Arts People View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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Philadelphia Social Media Course Arts 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The taxonomy is rudimentary and not very informative. It's part of helping people to easily adopt RSS readers as an information coping skill. In my younger years, I could easily remember phone numbers, urls, addresses, people names, or what I ate for lunch. I hate it when I can't instantly pull facts out of my brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

As my work as a trainer pivots more towards leadership development in a networked world, I’ve been doing more and more training on the topic of mindfulness at work techniques. Countless studies show that people are switching from one task to another every 3 to 5 minutes (yes, that is right!) Do you sleep with your phone?

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Phone Mobile Technique Studies 50

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

For each of these activities you want to take a look at a few factors: The expenses of running the activity (including staff and volunteer time) The benefits generated for your organization (such as revenue, brand, donors) And any other pertinent information. So, let’s touch some more on these fundraising techniques.

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

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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Reflection Train Training Design 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Or as @orgnet says, “Turning data into stories is the real trick.&#. But how do deal with that much data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

The webinar content is important, but it is only part of the instructional design task. Once you’ve identified what people will learn from the webinar, think about your content in these three different categories: Self-Directed Reading: Materials and Information that participants can read and review on their own.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

As Nilofer Merchant points out in this TED talk , people are sitting 9.3 The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. The second stage is kindling, where you attract and capture short-term attention on a specific activity, event, or idea. These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human.

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Attention San Francisco Statistics Pennsylvania 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Technology stress and information overload have been around for decades. 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.

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Blackberry Attention Mind Google 111

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 is using private goods for social good reasons. Rob started off with some observations about the young people he sees in his business school classes.

Skills 96

Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

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. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Program Design.

Pakistan 113

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

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.

Data 100

Data New York City Storytelling New York 100

Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2013

You know what to track, how to gather your information and to whom to report it. You are ready, willing, and able to discuss the technical components and tax-advantages of charitable gift planning through a large variety of techniques. Your strategic plan is set in place and you’ve been following it for years.

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Giving Gift Mentoring Mail 40

Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Create something really robust, informed, and complex (like a delicious cake). What do people like the most? There's not much new brain work required, just re-packaging. Miller's idea was that you don't have to be Martha Stuart or Julia Child to put together an enticingly delicious pre sentation of your nonprofit.

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Marketing Remix Delicious Calendar 36

Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

Learn more about donor stewardship in the article: 3 Stewardship Techniques to Scale Your Fundraising Efforts. That connection can in turn transform from a series of responsive transactions based immediate needs to more strategic planning, with the provider playing the role of trusted advisor/innovator/peripheral brain for the client.

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Adopt Service Fundraising Articulate 29

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.

Data 68

Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

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.

Data 67

Data Story New York City New York 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

In workshops, it is important to have a full group discussion about people's concerns about social media and a discussion about organizational readiness. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. But for some people, it can actually enhance their learning.

Social Media 95

Social Media Reflection Learning Social 95

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? Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

One area I’ve had the pleasure to focus a great deal of time and energy on is helping to improve the lives of people with vision impairments. So for me, it was incredibly cool to be introduced to a new piece of technology that has a clever and (as far as I know) new approach to making information accessible to people with vision impairments.

People 113

People Help Tech Colorado 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. The guide helped me understand that I was looking for both specific conferences as well as lists of conferences in those areas by knowledgeable people. I've been doing a small research project.

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