Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

A Slide From Downes Presentation Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. This slide caught my attention and I took a screen capture. m reading and two or three pieces of content flow up from my network that begin to click together in my brain like magnets, making connections. I downloaded the powerpoint and browsed it quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. Some neurons in my brain made me connect back to Shenk's book I attended NDN's New Audiences, New Tools Forum. He said no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. Old Way – Not Visual Thinking – Automatically Create Visual for Every Survey Question on Separate Powerpoint Slide. Better Method: Create Visualizations of Important Data and Pull Together On One Slide.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

What is the answer to Connections today Wane : DWINDLE, FADE, PETER, TAPER Do Some Tasks in the Garden : PLANT, PRUNE, WATER, WEED Shoes : FLAT, MARY JANE, MULE, SLIDE Sand : CASTLE, PAPER, PIPER, STONE Don't feel down if you didn't manage to guess it this time.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

| Technology | The Observer – "American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. Below, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. The model is called “SAVI” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Here's something we all dread: Slide after slide loaded with text that is being "read" by the presenter. Reduce the number of slides and increase the number of interactions. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. There are a couple of bonus slides in the deck about how to use metrics for podcasts and video. Corey Pudhorodsky of the 501-Casts was kind of enough to create some slides for me. Intangibles are important.

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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. Networked Nonprofit Slides View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I realized that I enjoy presenting at sessions when the audience gets to share their knowledge with the room and each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

Our brains make better sense of the data when we replace the legend with direct line labels. Stephanie Evergreen blogs , tweets , and trains on how to make awesome graphs, slides, and reports. If you are going to put the number labels on your data lines, delete the gridlines altogether. Step 4: Directly Label. It will feel good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. Sketch my Hong Yee Krauker created on an iPad with Sketchbook Pro.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

The device itself consists of a light source (infrared LED), a hi-res wide camera and enough electronic brains crammed into the little package to do the rest. I could let all of this excitement slide in the (virtual) hustle-bustle of a CES show floor, but there are two issues.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Once you charge up the Jacquard module with the included micro USB cable, you slide it into place over the pins on the shoulder strap. The brains of the operation, the Jacquard module. They’re both available through Samsonite’s web shop. But is this actually easier than reaching up to tap a button on your headphones?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! And brain scans now show that when you tell a story that taps into your audience's emotions, their brains actually reflect your own.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

You open TikTok to recharge your brain and treat yourself to some bite-sized videos. This is a great way for your nonprofit to share facts, policy information, and “Did You Know” slides! Read Time: 4 minutes It’s lunchtime. Any images within this carousel can also be downloaded by viewers to save and/or share.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

“I was like, ‘There’s this founder I’ve been meaning to connect with anyways, just to pick his brain, about how to build a great company, and he also just became an investor.'” . “I wanted to meet Steve and had kind of put two and two together,” said Boehmig. Loughlin was hooked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Laura Lee Dooley captured this blog post about the session , plus you can find my slides all the links and other resources here. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Click to see full size image. I truly believe that the more engaged the audience the better learning and the better retention.

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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. Write them on a flip chart, white board, or slide so everyone can see it. Write the initial topic on a flip chart, whiteboard or slide where everyone can see it. Say the ground rules for brainstorming. see above).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employee incentives are one of the oldest brain hacks. The company’s founders shared a 15-slide pitch deck with TC+ that runs through their plans to use spent grain to create material for everything from contact lenses to detergent pods. Or, as the closing slide states, “Drink more beer, reduce more microplastic.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. Viral sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Final Slides PoST View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. I asked the students what else does that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. sketch by Hong Yee Krauker created on an iPad with Sketchbook Pro.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

The slides and notes with links to loads of resources and examples can be found here. You know, I'm getting too old to pull anymore all-nighters - and also wanted to thank the other night owls on Skype -- like Allan and Matthew who IM me some definition when I had brain freeze. The social media game can be found here.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Founders focusing on gut health, optimizing the way our bodies process waste and what that can do to the brain. There’s an allegory here to the “wait, weed is legit” wave we saw a few years ago when firms started sliding it out of the “vice clause” column.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2007

This slide came from a presentation by Rashimi Sinha that I stumbled upon and is focused on a different topic, but I pulled out this slide for "Popularity Metrics." It's like measuring 'friendship'. measuring 'reflective moments'.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Holly warmed up the crowd with a humorous slide show about the Internet connectivy. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. This year 2008 people are in attendance, the most ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

In other words, Amy is the brain behind how and why we game. Rather than occupying your attention with my own analysis, I encourage you to go straight to the source and check out her two fascinating slide presentations (from eTech 2006 and GDC 2007 respectively) on how to put "the fun into functional."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

You can view and download all the slides here. Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. You can view and download the slides here. The lowkey, unfinished look makes the museum feel open to visitors' improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I got about 3 slides in when I realized that my brain no longer operates that way. I discovered this post from Alec Couros , reflecting on his recent presentation in a wiki for emerging technology. When I began preparing for the presentation, my first instinct was to use a presentation tool (Apple Keynote).

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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. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Her slides are here and Read/Write Web: Coverage of Charlene Li's Keynote and Nick O'Neil/All Facebook here ). " This is how you might be envisioning your the future for your organization's social web presence and wrap your brains around Open Social. Notes from DigitalPodcast and analysis/notes from Jeremiah Owyang.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

Find the biggest slide. Scheduling your day will save your brain from the oh-so-common “what was I just tweeting about?” If you can discover what brings a group of people to your Facebook page vs. your Twitter account, you’ll really start to understand what types of conversations they want to have there. This is where the people are.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The tradeoff let him avoid the tedious task of internally managing delivery operations (securing enough hours to onboard reliable delivery drivers, receiving orders through their website, figuring out an appropriate radius for their delivery zone), and instead use the creative part of his brain to evolve Golden Diner.

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