Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. We covered the themes in our soon to be published book, The Networked Nonprofit , and engaged the audience in a conversation about these themes. Oh, the book comes out in late June, but you can pre-order at a good discount on Amazon.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Taking time to reflect on what makes you successful as a leader can be an important exercise in helping you grow. Many believe self-reflection and constructive criticism is the best way for us to grow as individuals. Innovative. The innovative leader is not afraid to step out of norms and atack problems and situations from new abgles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. Single tasking – Do one thing at a time.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

And for many donors, giving is a reflection of who they want to be. You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. Perhaps your handover from local to national had as much to do with changing workloads and staff turnover as anything else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

You also know you must make time to rest, reflect, plan, and recharge. But generating space for rest, reflecting, planning, and recharging is essential for working sustainably as a changemaker. That way, when someone tries to book a meeting with you, you already know those two priorities are accounted for in your schedule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

18 Minutes A Day: This method comes from the book 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done by Peter Bregman who blogs at at the HBR. You start each day writing down the three most important tasks on your to do list and reflecting on it for 5 minutes. Capacity Reflection'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. What to do?

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. that panel on innovation really got the brain juice flowing. We didn’t realize quite the risk we took booking the Extra Action Marching Band to open the NTC, though. It’s hard to believe that the 2012 NTC is a wrap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

She recently authored an excellent e-book on how to use Evernote ). If the notes need to be in a digital format, the process of transcribing them gives me added reflection and thought time to digest the ideas. I also wonder if there is an impact on being creative?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

The writing process for the book: Expository vs storytelling. Different brains – visual vs words. Three Themes from the Book: 1. Step 3: Reflection – where the greatest learning is. Reflection. —— [link]. Helpful guide tone vs colorful and wordy. Hired an arbitrator to be the editor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. I use pen and a note book to take notes! The Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

He is now using his iPad with Sketch book pro and a stylus – which makes it possible for more immediate posting. I’m inspired to do more electronic doodling myself. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Later I quizzed him about the tools. Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I did this in real-time as part of my presentation by highlight a e-book from Curata called “Feeding the Content Beast” with a foreword by Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the co-author of “Content Rules.” ” Content'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. Overworked new media managers often find it challenging to connect face to face, or they cannot quiet their mind long enough to read a book on the beach or watch a sunset. The will to engage and interact is drained, and procrastination sets in.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Signed copy of Alan Savory’s book. LoveYourBrain is on a mission to improve the quality of life of people affected by traumatic brain injury (TBI) through programs that build community and foster resilience. “Regenerative” T-shirt . For $50 per month, “changemaker” donors receive: All “champion” and “steward” benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Can participants apply the skills?”

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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. I’ve done walking reflections at the end of session as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

In the 90’s the world of productivity was revolutionized with principles like the 2-minute rule, a cornerstone of the Getting Things Done (GTD) a book and methodology created by David Allen. Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. I do this all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. This month I’ve been teaching graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.” Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. PRIORITIES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

However, Aliza Sherman and I were reviewing the final round of edits from our copy editor at Wiley for our forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit due out in October. It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. Last week was the first day of summer and it got me thinking about doing a digital detox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam. Program Design.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

It’s a new year, so that must mean it’s time for reflection. Given this, you will not be surprised that I found inspiration that last week of the year from a book I had somehow missed but was destined to find. The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

I am working on a book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout , with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book will help individuals and the nonprofit organizations they work for how to take care of themselves while taking care of their organization’s mission. I don’t. I don’t feel so immediately frenzied.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. What tags to use to describe items, who decides this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected. As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

January is a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. As many of you may know, Aliza Sherman and are working on a book called “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Impact without Burnout.” Train the brain to deal with chaos.

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