Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. The neuroscientists at the Gazzaley Lab at University of California, San Francisco, have shown that games can improve our cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? One recent study at Stanford University determined staff were more creative when they were walking versus sitting and encouraged walking meetings for more innovation. Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2016

This version tells why a particular group of people came together as a community to address a problem. Keep the length of your video at two minutes or less because science suggests our brains don't focus for much longer than that. Why Telling a Story Is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains. The Story of Us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Washington Square Magazine, which is published by Viji’s alma matter San Jose State University, included a profile of Viji in their most recent issue. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. In countries outside the U.S.,

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

And, ironically, the science to back this up also comes from Stanford University. It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. But as everyone who owns a smartphone knows, the problem is that your mobile phone is no longer just for phone calls.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Just say you want to pick their brain. What interests you personally about the problem we are addressing? Gail launched her fundraising career at Duke University and then directed the fundraising program at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ask for advice. fundrasising'

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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. Others say that it is a problem and a few made getting an alarm clock part of their new year’s resolutions. Do find it a problem? ” We’ve been researching and interviewing nonprofit leaders about self-care. I don’t. What about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

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. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. These factors explain and perpetuate the problem of board diversity.”. It’s personal and requires a fair amount of trust.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

We have so many data-themed links this month, you should probably take a moment to consider what all this information may be doing to your brain. The problem may have to do with a lack of feedback. Oh, and you might want to check out the longest tennis match in the history of the Universe -- at Wimbledon, no less).

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Numbers are a universal langauge. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. This rule change will give more than 18 million low-income Americans $9.25-a-month

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Numbers are a universal langauge. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. Numbers are a universal langauge. Data is so much more than a stack of numbers or a server filled with client outputs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. From CUL’s perspective, if you’re reading to other writers, that’s not a problem, it’s a community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

Is this a problem? This is a problem that many of the museums doing the best work in social media may soon confront. You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. This used to be a problem of properly conveying the “visceral” in the “virtual.” I think so. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

” And here’s my number one favorite one because I see perfectionism is a huge problem in major gift fundraising. I have seen this firsthand because we have a big problem with perfectionism in major gifts. So possibly unpopular opinion, but perfectionism is a big, big problem in major gifts, and it’s holding us back.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

” And here’s my number one favorite one because I see perfectionism is a huge problem in major gift fundraising. I have seen this firsthand because we have a big problem with perfectionism in major gifts. So possibly unpopular opinion, but perfectionism is a big, big problem in major gifts, and it’s holding us back.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. With this universal design approach , e-books that meet the needs of students with disabilities simply work better for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

The second article continues this argument, talking about ways that games--if we let go of strict expectations about their use--can be applied in "mundane" (universal?) The problem is that it's very hard to separate the expectations we have--about what games or comics are--from the blank slate potential of the media. situations.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so fundamentally, it’s you care about this cause because of what you’ve already done in the community, you’ve met some of the people that we felt will inspire others to give, and you’ll solve our community problems or kind of summarizing this. . Local university, my wife was working there as a major gift person.

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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. We all have our pet movies, books, bars, beaches, and these predilections, while powerful, are so idiosyncratic that they aren't very useful unless you are a universally loved place.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So if you get interrupted, or you have to bounce early, no problem. ” If you’re not moving for the right reasons, it’s a problem because moving is expensive, it’s time-consuming, and it takes a lot of brainpower. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. We’ve got problems here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

We have a highly efficient system for creating technology that solves problems and delivers value far beyond the confines of Northern California. But, we have only scratched the surface of what we could be doing to help solve the pressing social problems that confront us. Philanthropy? Bleeding hearts? What's your issue?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Mary’s University of Minnesota. But the one universal global thing is that data, data is just bad. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Schools and businesses should be written out in full, MSU versus Montclair or Montclair State University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Take a guess.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

No problem. And my promise to you is that you will have three or four actionable items, tools, ways of communicating that you can implement today, right now, no problem, to start getting more response from your efforts and getting those problems. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

The program RadioLab does this so well, featuring two scientist hosts who frequently ask each other: do you really think that X does Y in your brain? Of course, the corollary to the personal is to try to ask questions that are universal and do not leave anyone out because of cultural bias etc. It just requires different linkages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

" Her assumptions: Gender inequality is a social problem for both women and men to solve. 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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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

You may know what autism spectrum disorder (ASD) entails , but the grim summary is that children with the condition tend to have significant to severe behavior problems that tax caregiver's time and energy while not having the social skills that form the fabric of human relationships. Herein lies a problem.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2007

But this is a bigger problem--the reality that a good story can trump facts, and that people would rather listen with their hearts than their heads. Does the true story about the history of our universe feel true? And that the evolutionists don't. We'd rather hear a good story than a true one. I wish it with all my heart.

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