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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . with his colleagues in 2020 who now also collectively oversee Camp Reach for the Sky, a free camp program for kids affected by cancer that is one of only three Gold-Ribbon children’s oncology camps in California

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to connect a small number of mainframe computers so they could share research information in different states. I particularly like the Funny for Good Award on the serious topic of testicular cancer. The Internet was created nearly 30 years earlier by the U.S. TechCrunch.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

When Batkid saved San Francisco, the whole country watched. Micro content has trained us to prefer our information bite-sized rather than super-sized. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Marc Pitman suggests 3 Things to Make Your Ask Easier. Be upfront, Be quiet (sometimes), and be prepared.

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