Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. This allows us to clear our minds and focus on the present moment. GTD is a five-step process: Capture : Capture everything that comes into your mind, whether it’s a task, an idea, or a thought. So why wait?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. The study and presentation begins with some context. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote a reflection on a CNET article called "Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0," musing about the solution. I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. View more presentations from Olaf Witkowski. Twestival Tweet Report reviewed by Tweetag.com.

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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. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning'

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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. That the curator selects, describes, filters, organizes, and present resources. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” So, varying speakers, interaction, and mediums – helps make the content stick.

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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. For webinars, the platform is your classroom setup, so it important to understand how the Q/A and chat features, whether everyone can see everyone else’s chats or just the presenter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

It is called the Four P’s: Planning, People, Priorities, and Being Present. Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. BEING PRESENT. PRIORITIES. Work to your energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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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. The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel.

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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. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. One of the first challenges that presents itself is truly understanding your users learning styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected. As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

It’s a new year, so that must mean it’s time for reflection. That’s what was on my mind as I made my way through the final week of 2015, with my mind clear, rested from the break but not yet ready to gear up for a return to work. You could say it was a time for clarity.

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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. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. Capture their reflections on the flip chart by writing down key phrases. Have everyone present their ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

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. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. Year in Review. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

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. When burnout is present your employees suffer, but more importantly your mission suffers. Be mindful not to put the concept of overworking on a pedestal.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. – [Lindsay] I’m like I need to present. . So are you ready for me to present my slides? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them. By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions. bbcon is LIVE in Denver, October 22-24, 2023.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For longer documents, like “Thank You – Story Driven” in this example, Fundwriter first presents you with 5 beginnings. Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So this is a super practical presentation. So, as you’ll hear in this presentation, you don’t have to get rid of them altogether, and chances are you’ll never be able to get rid of these things. Take a minute to reflect. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? It could be something different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Pause for reflection time before next reiteration: How to improve results?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So this is a super practical presentation. So, as you’ll hear in this presentation, you don’t have to get rid of them altogether, and chances are you’ll never be able to get rid of these things. Take a minute to reflect. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? It could be something different.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about. You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. If we only do it online, it doesn’t force us to fundamentally change how our institutions work and present content to visitors.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful. We have well-developed design skills for interpreting and presenting stories and objects.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And my colleague is going to share our presentation and we will jump right in. So that brings us to the heart of our presentation today. So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. It’s how my brain works. Very linear thinker over here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. And by presenting the "right way" to do things, graduate school defines and judges other options as sub-optimal. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. Summer's coming to D.C., He wrote poetry.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation. Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. So these things are floating through our minds all day long. . Harvey: So your mind is endlessly busy processing questions all day long, just like your donors.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I think you’re going to see that come through in the presentation. Although, before each of these different parts of the presentation, I will pause to see if there’s anything in the chat box you want to discuss. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. .

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Reflect diversity. Reflect diversity. That’s why you should choose website images that accurately reflect the diversity of your organization and surrounding community. But remember that updating your imagery to reflect diversity should be just one element of your overarching inclusion strategy. Set quality standards.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As you review these best practices, remember to keep your donors’ needs top of mind. Take the time to review how last year’s campaign went and how you can improve your efforts in the present. Don’t let confirmation emails go to waste. Optimize your donation form. Conduct post-campaign analysis. Request a Demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Take a guess.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. npNEXT 2013 – Penelope Burk is the first in a series of recorded presentations from Blackbaud’s experimental event, npNext.

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