Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

And sometimes, we are not even aware of the symptoms , let alone changing the situation. 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. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Nonprofits do critical work in their communities and around the world and, in so doing, build the awareness of their brands to scale their impact. Based on the best practices of leading for-profit and nonprofit brands through our consulting at We First, they will empower your nonprofit to grow your awareness, engagement and impact.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Once you have it committed to memory, practice being aware of your speed, tone, and body language. Be aware of your facial expressions. This helps you build in the moment awareness. Memorize the sequence and transitions and practice out loud.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

These skills include self-awareness, adaptiveness, active listening, coaching with powerful questions, observing signs of burnout, giving and receiving feedback, facilitating inclusive meetings, and engaging in difficult conversations. That’s a huge leap in the right direction!

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

” It helps participants become more self-aware of burnout symptoms and what level of burnout they may be experience. A News Meditation: This is the practice of cultivating awareness of the emotions and thoughts that surface while learning about the latest catastrophic weather event or presidential tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

Self-awareness is the first step – that is being aware of how our cues, routines and rewards have locked us in a jail of poor productivity or lack of focus or accomplishment. I like the concept of self-awareness as “curiosity in the moment,” and how it can help break bad habits.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Not to mention, most of us are also staring at a small window of ourselves, making us hyper-aware of every wrinkle, expression, and how it might be interpreted. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2013

Our Syria appeal is a total team effort and has a three-part objective: awareness, advocacy and fundraising. The awareness objective is to make prospective donors and world leaders aware of the plight and needs of children. It is first and foremost an awareness campaign.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Here they are: Be aware of your stress. In this Psychology Today blog pos t about stress management, stress can take a toll on your physical and mental health. The article also suggests that you can steps to turn your stress into meaning and purpose. Embrace, don’t fear it. Flip oppression into choice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

This training was a day and half and here’s what we covered: Section 1: Self-Awareness: Understanding and Moving Through Your Leadership and Communications Style. The first session focused on self-awareness skills. Section 2: Social Awareness: Reading and Adaption to Various Situations and People.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

It helped me become aware of my unhealthy habits and pivoting to more healthy ones, despite what some vocal critics of fitness trackers say. As Nilofer Merchant points out in her popular Ted Talk, “sitting is the smoking of our generation.” Again, my Fitbit was really useful in helping me to become aware of my habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2012

I got to hear Scott Dunlap who is VP, Emerging Opportunities/New Ventures at PayPal deliver a great talk that offers some persona for different actors in your nonprofits network and how they influence, activate, or raise awareness for your cause through social channels. The slides are here.

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JULY 27, 2017

Moment – If you are trying to break your addiction to your mobile phone, the first step is to become aware of how often you pick up and how many hours per week you spend on your phone. My colleague, Meico Whitlock (aka “ Mindful Techie “) has more suggestions as does this recent post.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

The #LaborOfLove Campaign urges people across the nation to pledge to spread awareness about Goodwill and the importance of job placement and training programs. Goodwill is encouraging people to sign the #LaborOfLove pledge to spread awareness about Goodwill and the importance of job placement and training programs. percent in July.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

It is a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of threats that arise gradually. The techniques help professionals build the self-awareness – so when work and life come to a full boil, you can bounce back. Burnout is like boiling a frog gradually.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

Truly effective leaders are also distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence, which includes self-awareness , self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. Adaptability: Flexibility in handling change.

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DECEMBER 14, 2006

My inbox has been stuff flooded with lots of email. For some reason, I'm receiving many more more (unsolicited) holiday fundraising and campaign requests than usual. This one was pretty interesting because it gave me some insights into the fact that organizations are treating bloggers as journalists.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

In my newest book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , the first half of the book addresses how nonprofit professionals can assess and become more self-aware about the symptoms of burnout and begin to practice self-care to avoid burnout. Procrastinating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The other part of the matrix includes a continnum based on the “Marketing Funnel&# or for nonprofits the “Ladder of Engagement&# going from awareness, understanding, consideration, support and action. 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Many activist nonprofits have used it to inspire people to raise awareness, change behavior, or other action. The Native Fish Society recently hosted a campaign to increase angler awareness about the need to limit air exposure to fish during catch and release. The Hold A Sign Meme. Twitter: https://twitter.com/nfswildfish.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Cats looking sweet, doing funny things or, well, just being cats, have proved irrefutable online hits on the web and savvy marketers are all too aware of this. The results were spectacular and have garnered over 10 million views, raising awareness for the SPCA across the world.

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JANUARY 25, 2012

I can envision apps that promote online campaigns, encourage people to interact with the organization in a certain way, encourage specific actions, track activity, and/or to raise brand awareness. A few ideas: Support the nonprofit: “Jerry supports the Canadian Red Cross”. 3. What is the value or benefit to nonprofit users of Causes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2014

There were eight hours of online conversation through channels like Twitter and Google Hangouts where you could ask questions of world leaders about some of the most pressing challenges facing the globe today and they will talk about next week at WEF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2015

Yesterday, I participated in two seemingly unrelated events that generated that question. Fitbit and fitness/health apps offer many benefits — they help us become more aware of our healthy habits by measuring and producing data. Our group came up with a bunch of good ideas and fleshed a few.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Conan O’Brien could make a huge difference and gain more followers by raising awareness about charity giving by talking about GivingTuesday on his show before Dec. This year, over 5,000 partners across the country will participate in the #GivingTuesday event on Dec.

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JULY 16, 2019

And sometimes, we are not even aware of the symptoms , let alone changing the situation. A stress trigger is something or someone that causes you to have a stress reaction that may not be the best response to the situation and even creates more stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Conan O’Brien could make a huge difference and gain more followers by raising awareness about charity giving by talking about GivingTuesday on his show before Dec. This year, over 5,000 partners across the country will participate in the #GivingTuesday event on Dec.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice. This elicits feelings of transparency and honesty that allows a wide range of information sharing, which often leads to new awareness. The key takeaway here is awareness and communication is key- throughout the entire process. Never stop communicating.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

Note From Beth: I’m a huge fan of Giving Days because they raise the awareness, engagement, and donations to nonprofits and being generous. Last week, we watched as a national day of giving and awareness campaign for “Giving Tuesday” unfold and spur spikes in donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is an interesting social media networks fundraiser that asks donors to stop using Twitter or Facebook for a day (November 1st) to call awareness and financial support for autism. See you on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday! Hopefully I can do it!).

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APRIL 20, 2017

Checking in generates cortisol, the same stress hormone that made primitive man anxious and hyper aware of his surroundings so he would not get attacked by a saber tooth tiger. The urge comes from within – a thought or prompt that says “You haven’t checked your email or social media, check it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Or maybe you should become more aware of how often you pick up and how many hours per week you spend on your phone. If gaming and a higher purpose doesn’t work in curbing your addiction, then maybe try adding apps on your phone that can enrich your life versus wasting time.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The main objective was awareness in the first instance, but with the clear intent of moving people to becoming a donor. Results on awareness so far are favourable when you consider there was no cost involved and little resource investment too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Many organizations enter the world of social media with goals that are too nebulous to measure, like “building awareness” or “spreading the word.” How will you ever know if you’ve finished “building awareness?”. It’s useful to think of the acronym “SMART” when defining goals, which helps make them: Specific.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The gist of this framework is simple: the quality of results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which people in the system operate. The structure of awareness and attention determines the pathway along which a situation unfolds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Nonprofit Valentine’s Day Campaigns: Looks like lots of nonprofits are using Valentine’s Day as the hook for a campaign – whether it be donor appreciation, fundraising , or raising awareness.

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