Candid

APRIL 13, 2023

The reason storytelling is so effective at capturing people’s attention is simple. In fact, our brains are hardwired to respond to stories. Bring your story to life using different types of video content (e.g., It’s human. However, in today’s online world, it’s easy to get lost in the digital noise.

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Storytelling Audience Tips Captivate 105

.orgSource

AUGUST 28, 2023

Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? In a YouTube world thought leaders command attention. These ideas may be obvious to association staff, but they may not be clear to the pundits you hope to attract. So, this exercise is also a marketing tool.

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YouTube Industry Leadership Podcast 221

AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very make up of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Virtual Brain Storytelling Audience 96

NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

This guide will explore best practices for creating a blogging and content strategy that drives audience engagement, encourages donations, and makes readers feel like part of your nonprofit’s community. Align content to your target audience’s interests. Create engaging and interactive content. Simple language free of jargon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Bjorn has gotten a lot of attention for his recommendations to combat climate change by focusing on improved humanitarian efforts. Of course, we’d have to focus on local language content. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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Ideas Kenya Brain Software 223

Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships. Use Video People share video content two times more than any other type of content. The statistics make the call to action extra compelling.

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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. For example, a marketing coordinator may identify tasks such as writing a first draft for content, or analyzing hundreds of open-ended survey comments.

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Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Virtual Brain Storytelling Audience 52

Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

You should never go in blind when making content for your organization or event. They’re very useful for catching your reader’s attention and giving them an actionable objective that benefits your organization. You’ll catch your viewer’s attention and guide them to the main event.

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Examples Tips Fundraising Images 105

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 provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. The Unantipcated Benefits of Content Curation – article in NTEN Journal and other resources. Additional Resources.

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Mind Social Media Wikispaces Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Training Train Brain Exercise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. They include: attention, crap detection, collaboration, networks, and participation.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. Including social media icons on your website helps you recruit volunteers, enhance brand visibility, and disseminate content that aligns with your organization’s mission.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? When tuning in from a remote location, your audience will be experiencing competing demands on their attention. Some of these features include: Live Video.

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Virtual Stream Poll Audience 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 10-20 minutes.

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Training Train Audience Activities 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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San Francisco Work Help Tips 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. Human attention peaks at about about 12 minutes, particularly if it is a lecture. The learners will space out and come back to attention but not as at the high level at they did at the beginning of the presentation.

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Design Effective Experiment Learning 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Your design is not just about content. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

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. I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review. My Three Words.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? When tuning in from a remote location, your audience will be experiencing competing demands on their attention. Some of these features include: Live Video.

Virtual 52

Virtual Stream Poll Audience 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content. Brain Fitness. Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you.

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Social Media Professional Time Management 108

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?” You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 Soren welcomed everyone and asked to be totally present and give full attention – which is becoming rarer and rarer at conferences. Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Healthy Mind Platter. I got a copy of the book.

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Brain Mind Offline South Africa 104

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Various studies have found that visuals with human faces draw more engagement online (such as this one , where human faces attract more attention on Twitter). This means you should include visual content on your nonprofit website—and lots of it. Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans.

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Websites Practice Nonprofit Search 52

NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2014

You don’t need flashing lights to get attention, you just need something that looks good. 4) Keep it Content-ed. Content is king. Well, it’s true, but conTEXT is queen, and is often the case, she’s the real brains of the operation. She tells content king what to say. 1) Keep it Simple.

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Websites Social Media Nonprofit Content 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. Three Ways to Think About Content. Think Beyond Presenters. Large: Over 50 people.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

In other words, Amy is the brain behind how and why we game. Amy is the Creative Director of Shufflebrain, a game design firm that has unique expertise in identifying and exploiting behavioral human predilections to make games and game-like experiences compelling in everyday contexts. Enjoy, and please share your comments with others.

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Brain Game Myspace Museum 20

NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2014

You don’t need flashing lights to get attention, you just need something that looks good. 4) Keep it Content-ed. Content is king. Well, it’s true, but conTEXT is queen, and is often the case, she’s the real brains of the operation. She tells content king what to say. 1) Keep it Simple.

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Websites Social Media Nonprofit Content 53

Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. Allowing an invaluable insight in developing content that may not just be convenient via technology, but possibly even more effective if properly educated. Learning Styles. Adaptability.

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eLearning Learning Instruction Instructional 63

Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2016

First impressions matter when you only have a split second to grab your visitors’ attention and get a chance to introduce your mission. Design and Messaging: Images and Content Need to Align. You should make a habit of asking these questions about every piece of content you display: What’s the value of this content to user?

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Websites Photography Images Attention 35

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Begging for your attention in its boldface type. In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. As subjects get longer, sometimes a one-word subject stands out and will draw attention. It sits there.

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email Spam Brain Rate 28

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 13, 2015

Begging for your attention in its boldface type. In those few seconds, a flurry of thoughts flash inside your brain: Who is the sender? As a nonprofit marketer, you are on the other side of this great brain fire. As subjects get longer, sometimes a one-word subject stands out and will draw attention. It sits there.

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email Spam Brain Rate 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. The value of doing an extended peer learning exchange is that participants get the opportunity to put the ideas in practice and apply what they learned.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

It is all about managing your attention. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity. What you give your attention to, is what determines your experiences. Kiera Stein, Dog-Eared Social Blog, wrote about how to create your social media content strategy in one week.

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Product Personal Tips Nonprofit 50

Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And if you’re a staff member in charge of producing content for your nonprofit, you know how time-consuming content creation can be. That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list.

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Calendar Content Strategy Cancer 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time! Most likely, there will be some content delivery you share during your workshop. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Training Train Reflection Design 98