Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Pictured above). 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. This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 27, 2016

Why aren’t followers liking our pictures? That said, what are the best ways to use some psychological tidbits to tap into emotional and subconscious urges of the human brain? And nothing is more discouraging than seeing all that hard work not translate into trackable actions. The questions themselves lead to only more frustration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Pictured above). 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. This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

While we already serve many people with dyslexia, or returning veterans with traumatic brain injuries, these changes will be remove much of the confusion that exists in the field because of ambiguous, older language. Including illustrations as part of books to be made accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It shouldn’t be surprising that a nonprofit focusing on closing the gender gap in technology has a beautifully-coded annual report built right into its website. The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. Girls Who Code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Unselfies," i.e. taking a picture of yourself supporting your cause and sharing it, is another way many people are rallying support for their campaigns. The National Brain Tumor Society has a guest blog post from a cancer survivor with an unselfie, encouraging people to take part in the campaign.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Modern technology provides us all with new opportunities for storytelling, including new ways to approach the ever-important visual element. That is the topic of the most recent episode of The sgENGAGE Podcast: Visual Storytelling: A Picture is Worth 60,000 Words. Wrap our heads around the idea of visual storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! paper into quarters, number the spaces, and answer the questions or draw pictures. Use Learning Theory.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Humans see the big picture. AI is a single technology. AI represents a growing constellation of technologies from self-driving cars to medical diagnostics. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. The bots, ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing are examples of this technology.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

These socks were made for walkin'' The 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, TX was a-mazing! Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? ChangeON Trendspotting: 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Debra Askanase, Community Organizer 2.0

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. He also advises senior executives about technology, trends, investment planning, and execution.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Tracy : Games are about subverting a system.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. So I can picture your office or your home office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” We are asked to master ever evolving technologies. I envision a time when people will gladly pay more for green technology, and they will consciously try to reduce their carbon footprint everyday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

But, the brain fog has started to fade. My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. One of the rules of Open Space Technology is "prepared to be surprised" and the people who show up are the right people.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. An estimated billion people carry water on their heads, so this is potentially transformative technology.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library's collection. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Tracy : Games are about subverting a system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Source: How To Reach Babyboomers With Social Technology A new report from Forrester Research on the demographics of social media use or social technographics also discovered that Baby Boomers that more than 60% of boomers actively consume socially created content like blogs, videos, podcasts, and forums.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

By thinking freely, I had no problem considering outrageous ideas to help, but my leadership brain applied the necessary guardrails to make practical and cost-effective decisions. The phrases “Well, this is how we have always done it” or “no system is perfect” were common refrains.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Maybe you’re considering your program and how you can actually engage folks to actually think that they’re part of a community which will create that sticky power that continues to be self-perpetuating so that folks continue to give their time, their talent, their technology, their treasure. . Or paint me a picture.

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

If you think that a mash-up of online tools for capacity mapping and resource matching would assist nonprofits, philanthropies, and the communities that they serve, then we invite you join us at our upcoming session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Some rights reserved.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Look to your donor database to get a picture of the kind of event your donors might be interested in. The executive director manages the big picture ideas and assigns roles and responsibilities to other staff and volunteers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Nowhere was this clearer than at the Nonprofit Technology Conference 2013 this April in snowy Minneapolis. Sessions on digital storytelling abounded, and the verdict came in clear: video, pictures, and sound are everything. Now they are considered an indispensable part of your organization's marketing and fundraising strategy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Consider Beth Kanter's blog about non-profits and technology , which is read by about 25,000 people per month. It's just one part of the picture. Thank you to Reach Advisors for sharing FASCINATING insight into visitors' brains. Most "successful" blogs are nowhere near 90-9-1. Her average comment rate is 3 comments per post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

for a technology planning curriculum for arts organizations for NYFA back in 2000. I shared this on a listserv with some nonprofit technology geeks (aka circuit riders) and one of them told me that his father worked at the same school as Doug in Minnesota. Can I connect that pattern to a picture? Writing is thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

I’d have taken a picture and figured out TwitPic. I picture Yoda stumbling as he experiences “a disturbance in the force” when an entire, populated planet is destroyed by the Death Star. Without mobile email or a service like Twitter, I had no idea if, unknown to us, coworkers sat stranded at the Phoenix airport.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. It could be equipment, technology. And so you can kind of get the picture of how you could organize and rank them. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. Yeah, a lot on staffing and operational I’m seeing here, Rachel.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She made her payment and here's how her business is doing, and here's a picture of the new goat that she got. Basically, we had lunch every few weeks for that year and I was able to pick his brain and ask questions. Over the next nine months, you would get emails saying, "Hey, Jane made her payment today of $25.00

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