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. Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. Twestival Tweet Report reviewed by Tweetag.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. I realized that I enjoy presenting at sessions when the audience gets to share their knowledge with the room and each other. Also, I will ask for rooms that have more space and wireless mics are not negotiable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective. Reflection. It is important to evolve your presentation style so it is more interactive, engaging, and a lean forward experience. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

To ensure that the specific things youre doing lead to important outcomes, you need some time in your schedule to reflect on the big-picture goals you have and their relationship to the actions youre taking day-to-day. Here are a few things you can do to clear the mental space to make sure your days are not just busy, but productive.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Recognition activates the brains reward system, which reinforces motivation and increases engagement. More than a checkbox Revenge quitting isnt just a series of isolated incidents, but a reflection of a deeper, systemic disregard for worker dignity. When employees feel unappreciated, resentment builds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Both organizations have demonstrated leadership in embracing social media. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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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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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The email, which was sent to the Brain Women and Allies listserv, voiced frustration that managers were trying to get Gebru to retract a research paper. Timnit Gebru, one of Google’s top artificial intelligence researchers, says the company abruptly fired her yesterday. The full text was first published in Platformer. “A

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.orgSource

APRIL 29, 2024

AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning. AI creates context in much the same way as a human brain establishes meaning. But you don’t need to worry about owning or maintaining them because you can lease time on their brains.” What Can the Bots Do for You? Right now, AI is like a child.

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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.

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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. The Transformational leader is one that expects his group to be dynamic and act fluidly, even in the face of adversity.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. Step 3: Reflection – where the greatest learning is. Reflection. This session will take a look about these trends and how nonprofits can equipment themselves to be networked nonprofits. —— [link]. The writing process for the book: Expository vs storytelling. Simplicity.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

Goodfire is developing the knowledge and tools needed to perform brain surgery on AI models. In addition to its core research efforts, Goodfire also generates revenue by deploying field teams to help client organizations understand and control the outputs of their AI models. Anthropic, too, may benefit from Goodfires insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

You need to engage the whole brain in learning. I truly believe that the more engaged the audience the better learning and the better retention. So, when it comes to panels, workshops, or other educational settings – design really matters. As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles.

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Medium Technology Section

APRIL 19, 2025

Imagine it artificial intelligence (AI) could think, plan, act, and reflect — just like humans. That’s not just a futuristic dream anymore… Continue reading on Medium

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Take a moment to reflect. Before you start writing your Letter of Inquiry, take a moment to reflect on what you’re setting out to do – essentially, introduce your nonprofit. A Letter of Inquiry is something of an art form, one you can master with practice and by understanding what funders want.

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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. that panel on innovation really got the brain juice flowing. It’s hard to believe that the 2012 NTC is a wrap. Amazing social discourse!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Your brain can't go on automatic pilot for mundane tasks because it has had to rewire neurons. So, as part of getting back into my blogging routine or rather establishing a new one, I'd like to reflect a little on TWT20 interview experience. Jay asked some terrific questions. It uses a different part of the brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

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. So, it is important to not only to understand to why you procrastinate but to catch yourself in the act and make a shift. How do you procrastinate?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

.” That may seem counterintuitive in a business world obsessed with speed, but in a relentless pursuit of momentum, many leaders forget that speed without reflection leads to burnout, inefficiency, and poor decision-making. They emerge from reflection, setbacks, and unexpected insights. Science backs this up.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions. Don’t waste valuable brain power. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation by Beth Kanter. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. 1) Email is Hot.

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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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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.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

We call these weekly calls, “brain dates.&# Last month, Joe Solomon shared on the NetSquared Blog what he hopes is our reflection on 2011 a year from now, focused on a year full of empowering and harnessing organizers. At the end of 2010, I started having a weekly, 30-minute skype call with my friend Vanessa Rhinesmith.

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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. Trainer Reflection.

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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.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The result is that AI-generated language will be homogenized, reflecting the practices of the richest countries and communities,” wrote MIT Technology Review. Gebru sent an email to the Brain Women and Allies listserv at Google detailing the pushback she’d gotten on the paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The space creates a calm and reflective environment. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well. There are couches and comfortable chairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I recently read a reflection on Twitter called How To Use Twitter When You Follow Several Thousand People. I’m not one for popularity and don’t view follower counts as a reflection of such. There are so may stats, reports, assumptions and speculations every day about who is using Twitter, let alone how and why.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Thus, how you treat those people should be reflective of how you want others to treat your company. I consider everyone who works at Squeaky to be important to our mission and have built our culture to reflect this. Exercise not only benefits your body physically but mentally as well, improving memory and overall brain function.

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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.” 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.

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