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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There will be times this year when a thank you email or tweet just isn’t enough to communicate your appreciation. One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time.

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Creating A Culture of Well-being in Your Nonprofit Workplace: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Erika’s organization is a small to midsize arts organization, with six full time staff members and an operating budget of less than $1 million.

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Are you a giver, taker, or matcher?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” on June 20th. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. I particularly enjoyed the stories and insights from the chapter about how these different styles build their networks.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In Education.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Let’s just be honest right up front: in the case of many nonprofits, the staff is small and the time is limited. Many times, communication is something people don’t feel is their strong suit. Many times, communication is something people don’t feel is their strong suit. How does the tension of the story build over time?

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A, and like Kishshana said a minute ago, we’d love to hear from you. But don’t do that right now because one of my best buddies, Kishshana Palmer, is here for beautiful Washington, DC by way of New York City, normally, right, Kishshana? Steven: All the time.

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What's the sweet spot between personal productivity and social productivity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After posting it, I remembered the phrase - "Social Productivity" that I read in one of the final chapters of " Connect: A Guide To the New Way of Working on the Web " by Anne Zelenka. I'm reading John Medina's Brain Rules. He also builds an argument for multi-tasking or rather the overhead of multi-tasking.

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