Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Give Staff Time for Hands-On Discovery Leaders should provide time for staff for hands-on exploration. It helps them cultivate essential human skills like adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving, which are invaluable in a world increasingly shaped by AI.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Wait, when is this AI going to start saving me time? However, with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s time to reevaluate and update our productivity strategies. Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. Never, unless you adopt it in the right way.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

When the intensity of the pandemic started to lessen last year—probably around the time I got vaccinated—I began to feel like I had more space again. At its core, Design Thinking is about creative problem-solving in an effort to improve products, services, and experiences. More energy. More brainpower. How are they alike?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. Nutrition insecurity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

Allison suggests in her post that there is definitely a business model problem. Allison says that arts organizations need a new organizational model: The problem of trying to figure out a new business model for arts organizations is much more difficult.

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

If you company is experiencing a constant or newly presented problem, a change will need to be made. Remedial Change – when a problem is identified and a solution is implemented. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. Consider the problem or opportunity at hand. This is a proactive change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start!

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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. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The National Association for College Admission Counseling reported in 2015 that 36% of first-time freshmen apply to seven or more colleges. Then, it’s how you evaluate and refine that message over time. There are a few accepted models for content strategy. Taking the time to invest in it produces measurable results over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. In addition, I do a little real-time assessment in the room by doing “raise your hand” polls or in a webinar by using the polling feature. This can help you adjust in real-time to the audience needs or what I call a real-time pivot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Therefore, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. The model is called “SAVI” : Moving and doing (Somatic). Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It allows anyone to produce decent first drafts in a fraction of the time as before, regardless of the level of expertise. I opened up one of Fundwriter’s appeal models ( Appeal – Human Impact ) and entered information as if Fundwriter.ai “Fundwriter frees up time and energy for me.” Fundwriter.ai

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But bottom line is we want to hear from you because we’re going to save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. What have I learned over my time, but especially over the last year of doing this podcast? And maybe not take everything so seriously because life is serious and life is hard, but we should be having a good time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring. Over the holidays, I got a new marker set and sketch pad – watch out.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

Many of the new gizmos were smart watches, but I won’t bore you with a listing of new models of those. The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure. Forget Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

Over my first year in museums, I worked at five different institutions as an educator, exhibit builder, exhibit cleaner, art model, and whatever else I could find. But I learned enough to know what I wanted from full-time employment and how to get it. Now, several years of full-time museum work later, I'm consulting.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

While AR has a host of applications for the commercial sector ( IKEA is using it to allow customers to place furniture in their home before they buy it and car makers like VW will use AR in their upcoming models), it can also be used to create impactful, substance-filled interactions. The iPhone 8 is designed to handle AR.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling. The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. It also allowed the U.K.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

We already know that there is an identity problem in museums where visitors perceive that they have "seen it all" even when they have seen a small bit. Yes, I will reread Borges' Ficciones until the pages fall out, and my husband will watch The Lord of the Rings (extended version) almost as many times. This is a potential Good Deal."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

In addition to the tactical and skills instruction we did with the social media staff on Day 3 and Day 4, we also covered how to manage time and work efficiently – and how to best provide support for the strategies. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mostly we think of this as time spent on a task. But the other more nefarious cost is the amount of time it takes others to aid in completing work outside of their department. Furthermore, the taxing workload degrades our faculty and staff’s time, willingness, and effort.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

My model is the shining star. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. But I also remember the first time I participated in a RIG (Rapid Idea Generation) session with Julie Bowen, then of the Ontario Science Centre, at a conference in 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Here's the key takeaways for me: * The capacity to be successful is an investment in time. "While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Go read it. More here ). *

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. I’ve already taken up too much time away from Sarah. We’ll have Q&A time at the end. Now, I have a whole nother talk I can give you on the nonprofit business model, but let me just tell you, nonprofits as businesses are more complex than for-profits.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. His name is Mark Hansen, a UCLA statistician, and he was working on the finishing touches of the installation of Moveable Type in the lobby of the new Times building (shown above).

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. This is a really good one for you to join in on for the first time. We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. So we would love to hear from you.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. This is a really good one for you to join in on for the first time. We’re going to talk about the difference between securing a one-time gift versus reliable, recurring, major funders. So we would love to hear from you. But don’t be shy, don’t sit on those hands.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So if you get interrupted, or you have to bounce early, no problem. We’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. I’ve already taken up too much time away from you, Maureen. Every time we turn around, somebody’s bringing another piece of technology, something that generates data into our organizations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

In some cases, the medium is the message, as in globes that display real-time weather data from satellites. But other times, it's not clear where the content belongs. To me, this is the least interesting model, in which museums provide standard computer stations for visitors to explore web-based content. Sepagration.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

We’re going to try to save some time at the end for Q&A. And you’re always so gracious with your time and fitting us in. So I don’t want to take up too much time from you except to say thank you and you’re awesome. Thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit more, discuss grants.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

If you want your story to drive people to action, identify a hero in your story and have your hero model the behavior you want your viewers to follow. This version tells why a particular group of people came together as a community to address “x” problem. You know the way a good joke depends a lot on timing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Royal Opera House is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on Twitter in a month's time. (Hat This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing. Pick the Right Model. A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual.

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