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 will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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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 This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved. Photo by VaxZine.

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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 This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Individuals with central vision loss can therefore maximize their vision through a corrective technique called eccentric viewing. This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Given that this was two and half hour workshop at the end of a long day at SXSW, I put to use all the interactive training techniques that I have been teaching nonprofit trainers around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. This book can teach you how to incorporate a storytelling framework into your communications that shows supporters how they are the true heroes in advancing your cause. The Annual Campaign by Erik J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Ellie taught a great trick.

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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 Since I do this every year, I also look at what I wrote the previous year.

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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.

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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. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Don't live that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I was introduced to lesson planning from veteran teachers and have written “lesson plans” or now that I’m an adjunct professor a syllabus for everything I teach. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Even if you have a short amount of time to teach (and set up), you can make your trainings (and meetings) interactive.

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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. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Care2

JULY 31, 2013

Data Visualization Tools, Techniques, and Uses for Social Change. Why do our brains crave images over text? What Old School Hip Hop Teaches us About Content Marketing Generation Y was born and raised on Hip Hop culture—which began in the 1970s in New York City and has flourished from the 1980s through today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and." is a technique that slows the brain down. Yes, and."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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. Personal Productivity in Practice. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. What is more important is managing your attention and energy. Over the past few years, people often say to me, “I don’t know how you get it all done.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

ve been teaching a course on social marketing at the UCLA School of Public Health, which has been a fun experience for me. Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) to create the resiliency you need to combat stress.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. For example, my dog , while a highly evolved social matchmaking device, is not deliberately designed for that task.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Leeann is saying, “Do you have a successful procedure to teach finance and [inaudible 00:46:13] pledges count?” I mean, do I have to stress why do we need this case for consistent, clean data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? And, we have to understand and apply a little brain science. When you’re constantly jumping between Facebook, email and texts, however, your brain has to divide its limited resources.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea.

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