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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. My Three Words.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan.

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7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning I learned a new word for information overload – “content fried” from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard.

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What Nonprofits Need To Do More in 2015: Embrace Stillness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That isn’t a good thing if you work in the social good sector. Over the past fews years, with the rise of online social networks, there has been much written about how to cope (or not) with too many people, too many status updates, too much email, and being too busy.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

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But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Personal Productivity Tips for Nonprofits

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Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. Another excellent variation of the Pomoro Technique.

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