Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Driving adoption of new digital tools and processes will require your teams to acquire new skills, introduce new ways of working and collaborating, and likely require creating new roles and business units. Many people think a digital transformation project is solely an exercise in modernizing technologies at your organization.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Creating consistent daily habits is one of the most manageable ways to exercise your influence and build resilience against future-related anxiety. When anxiety and indecision cloud your mind, setting overarching goals can be intimidating. Developing a morning and evening routine can help you feel more confident.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. It is a simple, elegant way to train your attention while working online to keep mindful how you are spending your time. ” (Note: I created a list.ly with some useful Zen Apps).

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Reverse Improvement, as Maher describes it, occurs when technological progress unintentionally diminishes core human skills and values. This tension is exactly why mindful leadership, grounded in principles like self-awareness, right intention, and resilience, is more important than ever.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the new book, The Confident Mind: A Battle-Tested Guide to Unshakable Performance , Dr. Nate Zinsser , Director of West Point’s influential Performance-Psychology Program, shares his secrets of mental toughness and how to build and master confidence. In addition to training the minds of the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” ” 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Cooking classes have a broad appeal because they attract not just gourmet food, but also individuals who want to learn new skills. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. To be successful at an event like this, you must come ready with your online promotion skills. 5) Online classes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2024

The 12-Week MBA offers an alternative way to learn business essentials by focusing on the skills and knowledge required to succeed as both a manager and a business leader. And it links you to a website where you alone or in a group can supplement your reading with some interactive exercises and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Meico Whitlock (Mindful Techie) leads the NTEN Board in a meditation meeting opener. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. CCC: This stands for the “Covid-Chat-Check-In” and is based on an exercise from Liberating Structures Playbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Peer Self-Assessment and Peer Coaching Exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2017

But there was also another sign on the wall that described their Quarter 3 theme word “Mindfulness” and a reflective question, “What behaviors and processes can we establish to engender more mindfulness and presence in our interactions.” Is mindfulness a theme that is important to your nonprofit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2015

The retreat curriculum is built around the a framework called “I-WE-IT” that covers mindsets and practical skills that today’s social change leaders of all generations need as we move towards more collective approaches. Mindfulness can do that. Mindfulness brings clarity to social change leaders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

On the steps out of TED, I was chatting with one of the attendees about what to do to help Gabby and other people recovering from brain injuries, and of course my mind went to software to help recover cognitive function. Like the previous idea, this one was an expansion of something that is already percolating in Benetech Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2012

A giving day like this should be an exercise that builds nonprofits’ social media capacity, and encourages them to try out new and different skills and theories. Done right with SMART goals in mind, the day can be an incredible learning experience for every competitor.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. with the tools to teach reading to adolescent and adult beginning readers, such as those with developmental disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Photo by Gary Clark. 2014 will be the year of learning for me.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Exercise not only benefits your body physically but mentally as well, improving memory and overall brain function. Who says you need to have an in-office gym to exercise during the day? Taking an hour out the day to be active will only make your team more effective in mind and body while at work.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Analyzing data and understanding how data flows in a large organization is a critical skill for all of us. Too few of us have a strong grasp on it, and this is an excellent conference to get a view into that skill set. I’ve been going for five years and it’s helped me understand all the challenges of analysts. Celebrate Your Life.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As a nonprofit director, you probably already have your organization on your heart and mind 24/7. If you feel mired in stress and anxiety, you might have a tough time with this exercise. Gratitude is a muscle that needs exercise. Block off five minutes a day for gratitude mindfulness. That’s okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

A network mindset means exercising leadership through active participation. One of the things they did early was to take an inventory of their team members’ skills to discover who was good at the various required skills writing, photography, and video as well as social media savvy. It means sharing by default.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Consider the hours of time you spend reading articles and books, attending webinars, conferences and meetings, watching videos, and whatever else you generally do to explore and develop new skills. We often put things off, placing learning skills on the shelf where they weren’t easily accessible to us. We didn’t stop trying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Tags: Information Coping Skills streamline.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Additionally, apprenticeships are more structured and skill-specific than internships. Robert Lerman (RL): What makes a great apprenticeship program is having an occupational outcome in mind, an expertise that the apprentice will achieve in terms of skills and capabilities. TF: Why do we need apprenticeship programs?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

We’ve already discovered negative occurrences tend to stick in the mind longer and stronger than positive outcomes. Here are a few simple ways to improve your positivity ratio: Set your mind on success. When your career, your business, or life gets you down, you can return to these visualization exercises to imagine a brighter future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

One of the ways to reduce handle this stress, is to flex your emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Emotional Intelligence is a flexible skill that can be readily acquired and practiced. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 8, 2025

and fourth) impression Invites additional ways to experience the brand Communicates impact Nurtures the highly involved donors Recently, Intermountain Health undertook a two-day Donor Journey Mapping Exercise to create a strategy to engage new donors with the capacity to become mid-level donors. Need help understanding your donors?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They fill many roles in different capacities, bringing diverse skills as board members, committee leads, exhibit guides, ushers, admins, and more. It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more important, retain volunteers by valuing their time, effort, and skills. billion in economic value.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

In contrast, a fixed mindset is grounded in the belief that talents and skills are fixed traits. In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. What Is Growth? McKinsey & Company.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. This is primarily because they have never been taught how to use their whole minds.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Bringing skilled volunteers together in person with passionate and integrated local organisations around the world was how V2I worked towards their mission of helping global communities break the cycle of poverty. Clearly, the V2I team needed a quick pivot to a new way to achieve their mission. Results for Venture2Impact.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Keep in mind, however, that all CRMs and donor databases are different – each has its own database structure, definitions of key terms, and attributes for handling certain data types. It’s your piece of mind. A data migration is not an exercise in maintaining bad data practices. Is that okay?

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

In addition to the technical skills and tools described [ in the extended version of this article ], it is also important for staff to incorporate techniques into their daily work life that reduce distraction and stress. I use this as a pre-writing exercise as well as a reflection exercise. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 26, 2021

A privacy-minded roundup of apps, including a self-care penguin Congratulations on your new Android device! There is plenty to do in the free version, but you can upgrade to Finch Plus for more self-care exercises; it costs $39.99 every six months to access additional exercises and content. for a one-year subscription.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

I've been immersed in working online since 1990 and I've had a nagging question in the back of my mind, "How does being immersed in using Internet, Web, or more recently Social Media change the way our brains function, the way we think or our capacity to absorb information?" Maybe there's some grain of truth in that?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If the venue has outdoor access for team-building exercises, group work, and breaks, that’s even better. Come up with exercises and forms that allow board members to choose ways that will excite and motivate them to support your fundraising efforts. Some may be great hosts and could throw fundraising parties. Use small plates.

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