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.” ” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? Mindfulness'

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). It directs our attention, is responsible for moral decision-making, allows us to empathize with others, and helps coordinate the thousands of signals rushing around your brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. Incorporate a mindfulness routine in the morning before you check your phone: Janet Fouts, Author of Mindful Marketing , says “I’ve weaned myself off checking my phone after 10 pm and I rarely need an alarm clock so no excuse there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Sound familiar? Your team can do a simple mindfulness exercise by starting a meeting with a deep breath and going around the table to share how you are feeling in the moment. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Work to your energy.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Many website services promise quick and easy setup free of any long-term planning or custom coding, and—while that may sound alluring—it can cause certain roadblocks in the future that prevent you from scaling your online presence. In today’s ever-expanding online world, that’s important. Humans tend to respond to images of fellow humans.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

"Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. "Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things. All Program Managers. All Accounting Staff (normally one person!).

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Sounds like a great idea. Can I pick your brain?”. It might sound like I don’t know what I’m doing, but I have a strategy, I promise. Here are five key thoughts in the forefront of my mind as I engage with these potential supporters. We want to create a co-working space for nonprofits.”. Potential donor: “Awesome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. Incorporate a mindfulness routine in the morning before you check your phone: Janet Fouts, Author of Mindful Marketing , says “I’ve weaned myself off checking my phone after 10 pm and I rarely need an alarm clock so no excuse there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

It also sounds less costly and complicated than evaluation. But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. The staples of Oz – courage, heart, and brains – are a good start.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

What comes to mind when you think of “ nonprofit psychology?”). One interesting finding is that the human brain actually learns best in relaxed concentration. That may sound like one heck of a buzzword, but it basically means that people retain new information when their body is relaxed but still alert enough to be engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

How does 11K gb connection speed sound to you? For more and more of the best young technical minds, it’s no longer enough to line up their talents behind selling toothpaste on the web. They want their brains to matter. Every Campusero gets to hook up to the mother of all servers for a week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. 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.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. Some Internet People strike the flint every time. Let’s do it.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

With that in mind, we asked you for your advice for monitoring online feedback as part of this month's Net2 Think Tank: Topic: What are your best practices for effectively monitoring online feedback about your organization, cause, or enterprise. sounds dangerously close to marketing speak, it actually touches on our. Although this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. Let’s cover five key aspects to keep in mind when searching for a new CME LMS. Complicated Accreditation Reporting.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . She was just on Forbes yesterday, it sounds like, and I just heard about it on LinkedIn and I’ll have to give her a call.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Sound familiar? You are appealing to the analytical side of my brain and ignoring the side where my compassion and empathy are located. And I won’t mind if you thank me again.) Your organization is your baby, and you want to believe everyone loves your baby as much as you do. That’s the side you want to appeal to.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Keep in mind that the type of event you choose to host will also influence the kind of venue you select. Sound or lighting equipment, if not provided by the venue. We’ll walk you through all the most important steps in the process: 1.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Don’t Take on More Than You Can Handle This sounds so easy, doesn’t it? This one is wayyyy more important than it seems because your brain and body don’t function well if they aren’t rested. Staying hydrated helps combat fatigue, grumpiness, and sluggish brain syndrome. YOU decide what happens (or doesn’t happen) each day.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. This may sound reasonable; any life choice is a personal decision. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. Summer's coming to D.C., Is it a credential that serves as a gateway to better jobs?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful. Entertain the idea of an exhibit based on Gantt charts and spreadsheets, and your head might just explode.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

You’ll get bonus points if you also set up slightly different suggested giving amounts and a couple different “billing” options (we hate using “billing” here—it sounds too much like the utility bill example we used earlier—but there really isn’t a better term). Try adding a few billing options to your donation form.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

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. But, cost savings, opportunity for innovation and impact that will create should be mind-blowing. But, can it be done?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? Now, this may sound like strategic planning, but I’m going to show you the ways in which it’s different. So we actually draw our strategic plans, our impact strategies, as mind maps.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Consistent, relevant content is key to keeping your campaign top of mind for donors. Sounds like a good time to me. Keep in mind that each company sets their own policy. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . We’re going to do a little intro. . no, no, no.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” Sounds good. We feel really inauthentic.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” Sounds good. We feel really inauthentic. Think about it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. They sound scary, because who wants to talk to someone? This one is going to sound like, “Oh, Lori, really?

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