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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. It may sound counter-intuitive but we need to use technology.

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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention. For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . San Francisco Ballet. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. Bernard Mauricia. Oncology and Kids. Helped co-found Oncology and Kids, Inc. Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director.

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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

Same goes for the San Francisco Zoo , which often tweets out visitors' cute photos taken at the zoo. It may sound like work to reply to others, but it can be easier than generating your own content. So please, get together with the most creative (and concise) brains in your institution and find the idea that will work for you.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me. I think it fascinates a lot of people in San Francisco because it's almost like this zip code in the middle of the city right next to Nob Hill, which is a very affluent area. That sounds like a horrible way to die.

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So far – sounds great. Disabilities like dyslexia, vision loss, or a brain injury or physical disability that gets in the way of using a printed book. Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. I got a chance to attend one of the cutting edge conferences we have out here in San Francisco to get a sense of how nonprofit technology fits in to the leading edge of innovation. The Big Picture.

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