Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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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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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. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

The question was really how do you say yes to a connected yes and an inner life as well? He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Organizational Culture of Balance Is Important. Sacca, Horowitz, and Pass talked about the importance of creating an organizational culture that honors balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Make Solo Time A Part of Your Team Culture. Research has found that after hours emails contributes to the blurring of work/life boundaries. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. Create Device Free Zones.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Cultural institutions aren’t always the best at this—we are often all in or all out. It’s hard to ding any cultural institution for not preparing for a future so few of us saw coming, but there’s always been a need to pivot when unexpected things happen.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

In reality, we all spend most of our time trying to avoid failure, because the unpleasantness can have significant repercussions we may not want to trade for a shiny life lesson. Four good things about this kind of failure: It confirmed that there was a difference in visitor response to different facilitated activities.

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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.” Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice. Analytical? Compassionate?

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Will you give now to deliver life-saving aid to puppies in need? Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Consider donating to support our mission. Stray dogs in your community need help right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was thrilled to co-facilitate an interactive session called “ Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Using Tech for Healthier Work and Life ” with Aliza Sherman (who is my co-author for the Happy,Healthy Nonprofit Book ), and Gina Schmeling, Director of Individual Giving, Hazon.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

But during the past year and a half, people have really been questioning the meaning of life and their own mortality in unprecedented ways and kind of wondering, “Well, what will my legacy be?” It’s really part of the circle of life. Not today and really not ever. No one escapes death. That’s how it works.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Case Study: The lost art of writing.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She quit me and now she is a lifeguard living her best possible life this summer, working at a community pool and having the best time of her life. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s. I’m just resetting my life. So Sinai is a lifeguard this summer.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. What could you do and I want you to write in the chat and it’d be great if Steve you could help me kind of facilitate some of this. that’s just life. This is what.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. For example, the theme could be 80s pop culture or the holiday season. Donorbox Donorbox is an online fundraising platform that’s focused on facilitating a fast, simple donation process.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. 2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. Competition is a big part of childrens' lives in Vietnamese culture, but it was seen by museum staff as antithetical to their approach to programming.

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