Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . San Francisco Ballet. The organization works to provide donors and the charities they love with tools, ratings, and information needed for informed decisions and investments .

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MAY 25, 2011

GreenInfo Network helps 80-100 public interest groups a year work with computer based maps using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and related technology. Many maps (and much other media) push all their data and information at once. Great maps unfold stories in successive layers of visual focus and comprehension.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us This hasn't been around that long.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Solving a major problem involving information is beyond the capability of any one enterprise – no matter how terrific. Disabilities like dyslexia, vision loss, or a brain injury or physical disability that gets in the way of using a printed book. We need to see data as an expression of the voices. And will of these communities.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. So I do have a bunch of information about why it’s not creepy during the pandemic but I’ll try to go light on that. And is just all over the place. So the poll is just sticking up here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

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. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. The Big Picture. TechCrunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

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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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

Kevin talks about the Global Citizen Center, a large mixed use building in downtown San Francisco that will serve as a hub for ecologically and socially responsible enterprise, education and economic development. Kevin Danaher is the co-founder of the nonprofit Global Exchange which co-sponsors the Green Festivals with Co-op America.

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