Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2015

He shared an interview from PopTech with Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova who sat down with John Maeda for a brief discussion on writing, curating, caring and the importance of sleep. The brief summary: Be passionate about your work and get enough sleep. Vince did not disappoint!

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Prize Incentives Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. A successful call to action will do three things: Provide a brief, one sentence summary of the fundraising website itself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Here’s a summary. He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. 1) Visual Storytelling. The best weapon against apathy is a compelling story.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Optimize your page’s images and content, utilize caching techniques, and invest in a reliable hosting service. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups. You need to use all the techniques for a medium webinar, but with more deliberative audience polls sprinkled through the session that helps focuses attention on the key content ideas.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. The story is line is being summarized regularly on the blog. Here's Act 2. Anyone can contribute. Just tweet your line of the story to @youropera.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. Here's a brain dump of some key points. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. What do they click on?

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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. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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