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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. It may sound counter-intuitive but we need to use technology.

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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. The triggers are: Automaticity: Uses specific sensory cues like colors, symbols, or sounds to get attention. For empathy, Parr uses the example of the BatKid story from Make-A-Wish Foundation in San Francisco.

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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 . 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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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

"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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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Solving a major problem involving information is beyond the capability of any one enterprise – no matter how terrific. So far – sounds great. 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.

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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. The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. The Big Picture. Just Plain Crazy. 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. What’s the sound of your nonprofit’s brand? Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. And we talked. Have you ever thought about it?

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