Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination. And, of course, there’s an app to help you apply this skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I like to use a combined method. They’re using software – called sensemaker – to see patterns in the data that is far too much for human brains to summarize. The above shows the methods. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation. Documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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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. It was delivered in two sessions. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2016

I call it The Perfect 15-Minute Day Method (PDM). PDM incorporates the 15-minute technique of tip #1 and a simple journal system of tags for recording current tasks and managing distractions. The PDM method of recording your activity helps you to better focus and regain focus after distractions or interruptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

As my work as a trainer pivots more towards leadership development in a networked world, I’ve been doing more and more training on the topic of mindfulness at work techniques. In other words, checking your email before you go to bed hurts your brain. Many people do, including some of my colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2014

While these have helped me with a lot of great tips and suggestions, at a certain point I needed to stop reading about productivity, and start putting techniques into action. Everyone is going to find certain methods that work for them and is an ongoing process of fine-tuning what works and translating that into habits that help.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Try pushing through writer's block by using some alternative writing and methods: Lists. There's not much new brain work required, just re-packaging. Miller's idea was that you don't have to be Martha Stuart or Julia Child to put together an enticingly delicious pre sentation of your nonprofit. Q & A Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

But, the brain fog has started to fade. This is a great method for peer learning. After the lunch on the second day, I sat down with Marshall Kirkpatrick to pick his brain on mobile video blogging and camera phones. My travel hassles combined with sleep deprivation made it really difficult to write complete sentences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Method Tweeting for nonprofits: Much Ado About Something. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what? If Shakespeare on Twitter, how would he tweet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. After hearing a story from a peer. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. How do you apply these two methods? The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Individuals with central vision loss can therefore maximize their vision through a corrective technique called eccentric viewing. It is a method by which the person looks slightly away from the subject so as to view it using his or her peripheral sight. And this is where the MagnaFlyer comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? ve traditionally relied on education as their main method ??? the same tools that companies like Apple or Nike would use. Successful social marketers tap into people???s

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Let's examine the case for each of Karen's techniques. When I stretch my brain, I can imagine this being useful when: most of the museum-going audience does not have regular access to computers/web. Let's say you create a magic scoring device that allows visitors in the museum to rate each exhibit on a scale of 1-5. On the website?

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. method is a tried-and-true goal setting acronym that stands for s pecific, m easurable, a ttainable, r elevant, and t imebound. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. 1) Visual Storytelling. see above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. " 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. Engagement= Interaction + Attention.

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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. Preferred method of contact, how often you want to contact them? ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. Why do we need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The 5 techniques I’m sharing below are all about DISRUPTING the stress response. You can think of these techniques as re-routing or snipping the circuit wire that’s fueling your stress. When we are talking about disruption techniques for a crisis situation, walking away is a big one. 3: Emotional Freedom Technique.

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