Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” Arts and culture. Master relevant content marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions are time wasters and you need to manage them no the other way around. Some interruptions come from our physical environment. Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. But for many, those tasks are not necessarily the whole job even if your organization culture is streamlined and simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Bring these habits and behaviors into the workplace and we create an toxic environment that threatens our wellbeing and resilience to do the important work that nonprofits need to do. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. For some, it has become a behavioral addiction. Moving reboots your concentration and replenishes energy.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Questions and Discussion Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture. Tracy : Games are about subverting a system.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2018

Games=Brain food. Playing a game every once in a while is a great way to reset and activate parts of your brain you wouldn’t normally use at work. When job hunting, people are always looking for a flexible, fun work environment. If that isn’t a pick-me-up to get your employees through the day, I don’t know what is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

is a technique that slows the brain down. Move around before your next meeting, phone call, or presentation—pace, jump, or shake your limbs a bit, to get blood pumping more quickly throughout your body and increase the amount of oxygen to your brain. Cultivate a culture of acceptance to collaborate the way improv groups do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. But how do we get organizational mindsets to shift or at least create an environment where self-care is valued and becomes the norm?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2020

From my own side, I have so much energy, if I don't find plenty to keep my brain busy, I can go awry. Promote an environment where people feel as comfortable as possible talking about their mental health and how they are feeling. Cultivate a positive email culture. I've thought a great deal about myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. What he was saying that you have to integrate periods of time where you can step way from the computer and distraction and reconnect with yourself and the environment. Organizational Culture of Balance Is Important. I had to reteach my body not to respond in this way.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture. Both posts influenced this speech. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. I wholeheartedly believe it has the power to advance science (and art and cultural heritage) through the power of play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. If we're going to move forward, we have to be able to try things in a risk-tolerant environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." each of various qualities.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Couple that with the rising cost of donor acquisition and you’ve got an incredibly difficult environment for fundraisers (and their nonprofits) to succeed. First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Building a culture of philanthropy throughout your organization.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. So strategy really focuses on organizational direction, establishing values, mission, ensuring the organization embodies its cultural ethos. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Couple that with the rising cost of donor acquisition and you’ve got an incredibly difficult environment for fundraisers (and their nonprofits) to succeed. First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Building a culture of philanthropy throughout your organization.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2007

Reading through the entries already present, I'm struck by how little the games are about fun and how much they are about engaging specific parts of the brain. Stasis provides a different kind of game environment. you get the idea. Some people are creative, inventing stories about other subway travelers by looking at their shoes.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. I am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!" So please, get together with the most creative (and concise) brains in your institution and find the idea that will work for you. But not enough of you. Topical, provocative questions.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. Your job is to dis­cover ways to create an easy-going environment that encourages your entire staff to become better writers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e. Again, that is very different from the traditional culture of journalism and journalists. It is a public service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2016

But often the culture of working in a nonprofit is based on scarcity and that becomes difficult. The article discusses how pressure from funders to tighten budgets and reduce costs, especially to social service agencies a operation environment that has been dubbed “nonprofit starvation cycle.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all, no company can build a coherent culture without people who either share its core values or possess the willingness and ability to embrace those values. It is your responsibility as a manager to create an environment that allows your team member to do that. ” So let’s get some learning in now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Brain science and the science of learning are dynamic fields with constant advances being made. We want to create welcoming environments for LGBTQ communities, for people of all colors and backgrounds, and for survivors of sexual trauma. What are some of the cultural issues going on in their communities or programs?

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The board’s mindset should reflect current business dynamics and its demographics should mirror the social and cultural landscape. There is a welcome post-pandemic trend to make demographic diversity a top priority and to think of the board as a brain trust that represents the members’ boldest ideas and vision. is a heavy lift.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Let’s look at the nonprofit environment and why that’s so important. All the work we’re doing, whether it’s the environment, no matter what your mission is, we’re doing this. So that comes to kind of a communications culture thing, like the messages that we’re going to be. So here we go.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. One of the resources she shared is a book called Brain Rules , which presents studies about the power of "cognitive force environment"--the idea that we need to be able to actually change an environment to learn from it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others. I get to use my brain to think and figure things out. After we read through some of the responses and made some observations, we moved onto the next exercise.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. It's just natural in our brains, if you look at the brain science and everything around that, women want to build community. We have our cultural differences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

That's guaranteed, and what's guaranteeing it is, it is one of the few positive things about the destruction of the environment. For the first time in human history, we have the ability to create what some people have called, "global brain," where each of us is one cell in a global consciousness. That is the opportunity we have.

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