Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. April 13, 2013 10:30-Noon. This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. Gaping Void Cartoons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

I’m in Minnesota for the 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference where I am doing a plenary session on Saturday morning and two breakout sessions. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2013

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Stories are so powerful because they are simple, timeless, demographic-proof, contagious, easy to remember and inspiring. Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2013

Another highlight is the reading mode in Word 2013, which formats your screen for a better experience. Also new and nifty are some features in Outlook 2013. Ginny loves the look of Outlook 2013, emphasizing that more information in one place is a good thing. Give your brain downtime to create. Take a walk!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Last month, the Kansas City Business Journal published its list of 2013 Best Places To Work Companies in the Kansas City metro. As you review the winning companies profiles (the publication''s October 4, 2013 issue), you''ll notice that wellness and fitness programs and perks are common among this year''s winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” on June 20th. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. Best Selling Author Adam Grant, “ Give and Take ” will be doing a big session called “ It’s About Science!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

launched in August 2013 when they became available to app developers for $1,500 – by invitation only. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. EEG brain impulses are sent via Bluetooth to a tablet, smartphone or PC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They 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. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City. Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” featuring author Adam Grant, “ Give and Take.” The session was framed by some recent research from UnitedHealth Group and the Optum Institute called Doing Good is Good for You: 2013 Health and Volunteering Study.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. These posts were updated by Mr. McCallick in February 2013 for our readers. He is also the founder of the website www.nonprofit-connect.com. practices in the nonprofit industry.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2016

This is an increase of 2% from last year and is up $1 from 2013. Each time this report comes out I feel compelled to shout from the rooftops that, if you aren’t volunteering or you could be investing more brain power in the kind of work you’re doing, it’s time to make a change. So here’s the good news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I’ve had the honor of facilitating an online peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees that are hosting Giving Days, applying and iterating on the Giving Day Playbook since 2013. Yesterday, I facilitated the first webinar in a series hosted by the Knight Foundation on taking the practice of Giving Days to the next level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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. Walking: In Oct, 2013, I got a fitbit and got addicted to walking. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. They make us laugh, cry or inspire us to make a change in ourselves. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy.

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APRIL 26, 2012

that panel on innovation really got the brain juice flowing. And we’ll see you at the 2013 NTC in Minneapolis, April 11-13. Amazing social discourse! As controversial as it was, it really gave a lot of fuel to some thinking we need to be doing as a community. We don’t mean to brag. The countdown is already on !

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You need to be open to new ideas and willing to let go of what’s in your brain, so open mindedness is key. Josh: I was recently inspired by Kickstarter’s 2013 Year in Review , and I’ve had a lot of ideas related to their design. Josh: I’m most intrigued by the evolution of an idea. I’m going to say a proper lunch.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. They make us laugh, cry or inspire us to make a change in ourselves. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s 2013 tearjerker circles around an orca named Tilikum, who was captured at two years old and held captive in various aquatic zoos until his death 25 years later. They make us laugh, cry or inspire us to make a change in ourselves. But a great documentary changes the course of our culture, economies and public policy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013. Futurist Raymond Kurzweil envisions a time when three-dimensional molecular microprocessors will be commonly implanted in our brains for the purpose of intelligence and physical amplification.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Donor acquisition is all the rage, but did you know nearly 3 out of 4 new donors leave and never come back.

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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! Nowhere was this clearer than at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 this April in snowy Minneapolis.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Tell stories.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Every touch and tickle provides an opportunity for stimulation and learning that hugely impacts the growth and development of their tiny bodies and brains. Early childhood education is the most important investment we can make in our children’s future.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. This 25 th. The Big Picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? According to a Daniel J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. Or involuntary actions, like breathing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? According to a Daniel J.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. 2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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