Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For the 40 days leading up to my birthday I created a 4-part daily practice of moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. For the 40 days leading up to my birthday, I picked one thing to do each day that engaged my body, mind, heart and soul: moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. No connection to my lengthy to-do list?

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Reflection Fun Practice Journal 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. Keeping Resilient in 2021.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Technique Facilitation 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. The curriculum is based on the workshops I've been leading for the past five years and includes the Social Media Game , Strategy Principles , Experimentation , and the practical and tactical. .

Social Media 95

Social Media Reflection Learning Social 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. 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. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

Skills 96

Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context.

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Tag Reflection Practice Community 50

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.”

Professional 143

Professional Croatia Personal Build 143

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

hour chunk of work that is a very specific to do list. You start each day writing down the three most important tasks on your to do list and reflecting on it for 5 minutes. Capacity Reflection' Still, you have to get stuff done. How do you procrastinate? How do you get work done? What is your method?

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Method Technique Reflection Exercise 130

.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Design a program that reflects the customized service you want to deliver and the quality of outreach you want to produce. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? My first bit of advice is, don’t treat recruiting these experts casually. First, let’s make this distinction.

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YouTube Industry Leadership Podcast 221

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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Evaluation Train Training Tips 131

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. Here’s a guide to this useful productivity habit.

San Francisco 122

San Francisco Work Help Tips 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work.

Mind 101

Mind Social Media Wikispaces Media 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

I prefer these tools when I’m capturing a discussion from a meeting that focused on a designing a program or a reflective conversation. If the notes need to be in a digital format, the process of transcribing them gives me added reflection and thought time to digest the ideas.

Digital 103

Digital Tools Laptop Brain 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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Brain Mind Offline South Africa 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

Network 112

Network Work System Teen 112

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 someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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Instructional Design Instructional Instruction Train 113

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.

Professional 114

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 114

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. Designing and Implementing Workplace Rituals.

Build 128

Build Reflection Celebrate Nonprofit 128

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.  Check out our last installment here ! Learn more and get connected at MediaCause.com !

Advocacy 207

Advocacy Nonprofit Train Training 207

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley.

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Content Brain Technique Lecture 98

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. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

India 103

India NGO Network Exercise 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. I also found walking was a great time to reflect on what the data means – a brief walk does wonders for improving your pattern analysis.

Data 128

Data Personal Support Exercise 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. Cameras-off does not reflect disengagement, but helps improve attention and prevents burnout. What that means in practice is that norms are the ground rules for how a group of people communicate and collaborate with each other.

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Camera Attention Virtual Collaboration 142

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it.

Online 131

Online Social Media Attention Chapter 131

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.

Professional 100

Professional Facilitation Reflection Journal 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

His reflections remind me that I wish I could have immerse myself in the entire content (which was enormous) for the entire month, but those exercises and discussion that I managed to swoop into provided me with significant learning. It also reminded me that I haven't posted my own reflection. online worksho p - which was fantastic.

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Delicious Tag Reflection Action 50

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. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

Train 126

Train Training Design Classroom 126

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. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

Pakistan 113

Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

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.”

Professional 117

Professional Build Journal Facilitation 117

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.

Design 109

Design Effective Experiment Learning 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level. I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. Three Ways to Think About Content. Think Beyond Presenters.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The five practical steps of the research-based, pressure-tested The Ask Approach™ methodology are: Choose Curiosity : How you can awaken your curiosity to make new discoveries and unexpected connections. Reflect & Reconnect : How to take the right action based on what you’ve learned. Wetzler : Absolutely.

People 108

People Skills Question Teach 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning. You need to blend the best practices of marketing and social movement building? Thinking about it in terms of your time is a good way to impose limits.

Louisville 50

Louisville Reflection Conference Game 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run.

Social Media 102

Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, this handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network.

Network 95

Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

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.“

Professional 92

Professional San Jose Journal Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. PRIORITIES. Take a trend-line view.

Collaboration 122

Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Roshi Joan Halifax pointed out that there are two types of attention: receptive and focused - to explain the difference between being on Twitter which she called a "Karma accelerator" and meditation which she practices daily. I had to reteach my body not to respond in this way.".

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Blackberry Attention Mind Google 111