Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is starting off the year by surveying nonprofit communicators on key goals and challenges. Here are a few of the questions: Looking back at 2006, what was your biggest disappointment or frustration? And what was your greatest success? What are your top three communications goals for 2007?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2012

Guest Post: The Future is Now: Mobile Strategies for Social Impact. By Laura Efurd, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, ZeroDivide. – @lefurd, @zerodivideorg. A Pew report released just last week declared that “the rise of mobile is changing the story” about the digital divide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It helps avoid burnout and improves attention. On a video call, because we are all sitting in different homes, if we turn to look out the window, we worry it might seem like we’re not paying attention,” writes Liz Fosselien for Harvard Business Review. Cameras off does not mean meeting participants are disengaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

That's how much we pay attention when we're subjected to a long one-way lecture. Notice how for the first ten minutes our attention rises, then plummets and doesn't regain its original height. I think of blogs as a two-conversation where I'm engaging or paying more attention to the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda. Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2005

Technorati Tags: attention , nptech , net2 No, not Ed Batista. Nancy Schwartz. Via Michael Stein (West Coast).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

A couple of recent reports worth your attention. Laura Fitton (@ pistachio ) has an extensive (free) report on enterprise level micro sharing applications. You can download a copy or read it online here. In the report she compares 19 applications based on different criteria into a succinct consumer reports like analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2008

Nancy Schwartz wants you to help her select the winners of the 2008 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards, to be announced in July. The tagline finalists you see here have been carefully culled from the more than 1,050 taglines submitted to Getting Attention Tagline Awards. Hurry, the voting closing on Friday, June 20th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

I got an email from Ed Batista thanking me for becoming a member of the Attention Trust inviting me to download the Attention Extension. Technorati Tags: attention , nptech , net2. Maybe someday I could trade some of my attention data for the software! I was able to dig deeper into the editing functions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2005

He says the meta-theme of the conference was the phenomenon that Linda Stone, a former executive at Microsoft and Apple, has dubbed ''continuous partial attention." Ah, so the nptech community is an attention stream! It's not a reflective state. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

At the same time, they represent a challenge to nonprofits trying to win the consumer and citizen attention they need, forcing them to compete in terms of how they take their brands to market. With this in mind, here are a few steps nonprofits can take to stand out among nonprofits and for-profit brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Mushon. I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? " Got some great tips from Eduardo Jezierski , Watford Gap , Csuspect , Peter Campbell , EricaG , davidLeeking , Seth Schneider , Ericskiff , Kalabird , bethdunn , and Greg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

It enables the platforms to make money from advertisers who want to get that captured audiences’ attention.). While at Google, Harris produced an extensive presentation titled “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention.” Although that is not enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We also talk about the risks and need for more attention on the ethics of AI. To leverage generosity for the long term, the combination of collaborative philanthropy with coordinated nonprofit program delivery, increased attention to re-humanizing fundraising, and using artificial intelligence equitably are key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation. The attention chapter is about why and how to control your attention when you’re online. Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

Here’s a storify of the curated tweets , but I wanted to pull out one of the questions that came up: “How do I get my nonprofit’s CEO to pay attention to social let alone use it?” Get Their Attention: “Camp outside their door.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. Stories need to be compelling, immersive, human, funny, or provocative to capture attention. Marcelo talked about how humor can capture attention. The importance of digital reputation management – stories last forever and can spread quickly. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Myth 10: Donors will only pay attention to your organization at the end of the year. Myth 8: Raising money through Facebook is the best way to win #GivingTuesday. Myth 9: I’ve heard GT can only involve donors, not my staff or volunteers. Is your nonprofit ready for GivingTuesday?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

While at Google, Harris produced an extensive presentation titled “A Call to Minimize Distraction & Respect Users’ Attention,” his first effort as a design ethicist. Put only “tools” — and not apps designed to consume more of your attention — on your home screen. Set up custom notifications for special people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2018

From our smartphone “ addictions ” to the very metrics and business models designed to grab our attention every day, the consequences (health, ethical political, and otherwise) are just starting to become clear. We’re using technology to combat issues that have, in part, been brought on by technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

Description: How nonprofits can stay focused given all the distractions inherent in today’s attention economy? To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

What will it take to get the climate some attention? org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. Several years ago I created the Cute Dog Theory, a node to a Nicolas Kristof quote about how puppies get more attention than dry statistics about Darfur. Cute Dog Photos!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ? The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks. According to Terhi Molsa, Executive Director, the painting on the wall is of a lake in Finland, because being near water encourages creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I can’t possibly read everything, but I am using content curation skills to pick out the best stuff to give more attention to. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills. The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander. So, varying speakers, interaction, and mediums – helps make the content stick. The Seek-Sense-Share framework really helped me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It means removing the busy work out of their hands so they turn their attention to more mission-critical work. The workplace research suggests some nonprofits jobs will change or be disrupted. Leaders should emphasize that “disrupt” doesn’t mean someone’s job will no longer be necessary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

But maybe you are wondering why building relationships and engagement is worth your time. We know that it is getting harder and harder to capture people’s attention. According to Ben Parr’s recent book, Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention acknowledge is an attention trigger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

The benefits of taking control of your digital life in and outside the office are immense: greater presence and mindful attention, enhanced productivity and creativity, better relationships, improved sleep and less risk of anxiety. Bring these benefits into a nonprofit workplace, and perhaps some of the stress levels will go down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

Train Your Attention: Maybe you have no intention of “working” when you aren’t in the office, but you have become so accustomed to constant distractions, that regardless of you are doing, you are mindlessly tapping on your emails, texts, and social media icons on your phone. Next, focus on training your attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

#GivingTuesday is a day of giving where of thousands of organizations and individuals ( including me ) come together to give and call attention to giving, volunteering, and infecting others. In its first year, #GivingTuesday, a national effort initiated by the 92ndY and the U.N. … Read More Fundraising Philanthropy'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

Manage Your Energy and Attention. Managing Attention: Beth Kanter Ultradian Cycles and Managing Energy. Managing Attention:Beth Kanter How To Train Your Attention Online. The Practices: Create A Self Care Bill of Rights. Understand and Apply Habit Change Frameworks. Get Enough Sleep. Get Moving. Embrace Mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2014

Over the past year, I’ve been trying to incorporate thriving into my life – most recently with integrating “ walking ” into work and embracing the personal analytics movement to pay attention to health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2013

Many designers sign their work, so if you find an infographic by a nonprofit that catches your attention, you can easily find the firm’s web presence. And if you have do it right, it can capture attention, be fun, and , even get shared and spread by others. Here’s another example from NY Cares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2014

To kick things off, we are sharing a list of why trainings sometimes fail to capture participants’ attention and ultimately diminish their effectiveness. Starved for attention: Show your trainees some love. Your content needs to resonate with your audience’s needs. Don’t leave them hanging. Don’t just talk at them, interact!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2017

In a digital age where there is so much online available online and attention is your supporter’s most precious resource, are you saving or seizing it? My colleague, Julia Campbell, has just published a book, “ Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits ” and was kind enough to share an advanced copy.

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