Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. The point is to keep the lecturing or “push” content to the limits of the human attention span and look for opportunities for sharing and interaction. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 3, 2011

The doing good part for me is about this: a couple of years ago, the Dalai Lama said, in a public lecture, “The world will be saved by Western women.” For me, the fun comes in 1) meeting so many remarkable, talented, women 2) hearing about and nurturing their visions – which inspire me and 3) watching them start to play big in their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

is done by students during class hours, with a teacher’s supervision and hands-on input; and what was once the core of the classroom experience (teacher lectures) is now absorbed at home via online resources. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I also was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. The first session was the overview - interactive lecture. The second group (typically younger, but not always) have first-hand experience and have been implementing social media for their nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. I do the interactive lecture technique - and invite other voices into the mix as much as possible and encourage questions. The morning agenda was the full group - presentation and demonstration with lots of opportunity for discussion.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This is not me necessarily lecturing any longer. ” Brains start aligning, “Oh, we’re connected.” Now that your brain is thinking about this type of community, who else should be on this list? . So here’s where I want to open it up. . So this is a true question to you. Where are they helpful?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

Technology | The Observer – "American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. ." The internet: is it changing the way we think? Below, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion."

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. So with that, how will you use this information, emotional and informational lecture? Why do we need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. Here's a brain dump of some key points. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

" The lecture took place at Harvard Law School , and what follows is my liveblogging of that lecture. Larry Summers is wrong (There is no conclusive research that women's brains are different). By the end of his talk, there were no women hackers in the room." Historical statistics aren't particularly helpful.

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