Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I’m excited to co-presenting a session at this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I’ll be talking about workplace rituals and the link to resilience.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But you’re two years into a pandemic many of us thought would be over in two weeks. Given this new reality, how do you stay focused on your mission while also creating tech-life and work-life balance? You can break this pattern by identifying a start and stop ritual to bookend your workday. Similarly, the stop ritual (e.g.,

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2021

The world has officially surpassed the one-year mark of a remote workforce for many companies – a year full of pivots and uncertainty for organizations. According to new research in Harvard Business Review , 89% of workers have reported a decline in their workplace wellbeing since the start of the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. I also use it as a year in review tool. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I would like to wish all my readers, colleagues, and friends a happy new year! I also use it as a year in review tool. In early January, I read through the year’s journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of professional fulfillment? How about you? I look for patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review. Workshops, Keynotes, Webinars, and Conference Panels: This year I did over 75 speaking engagements and presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years.

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APRIL 7, 2021

The world has officially surpassed the one-year mark of a remote workforce for many companies – a year full of pivots and uncertainty for organizations. According to new research in Harvard Business Review , 89% of workers have reported a decline in their workplace wellbeing since the start of the pandemic.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As you begin planning your final fundraising push for the Season of Giving, make a point of honoring multiple faiths and cultures by creating a more inclusive end-of-year appeal. Why It Matters to Include Everyone in Your Year-End Messaging. Crafting Your Inclusive End-of-Year Appeal. There are 2.5 million Hindu-Americans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

Happy New Year ! Last year, I decided that I didn’t need to wait until New Year’s to establish happy, healthy habits in my life. I also have New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for a new year. Year in Review. How about you?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The other is not taking a risk to apply for a new job or opportunity, believing that they do not have enough experience or skills sets,” according to Christie Hunter Arscott , author of the book, Begin Boldly. This could be applied at networking events, speaking events, meetings, new team introductions, and more.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Nonprofit marketing teams want opportunities to improve their cross-departmental collaboration skills and competencies, but it also takes a new organizational mindset to nurture their development. Practice Culture of Philanthropy Rituals and Incorporate Cues. They’ve even held a karaoke event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

He suggests setting year-long goals. He identify 5 things to focus on for the year. Bregman also suggests picking an overall theme for year. I love Bregman’s idea. The theme he selected for the year really resonated with me: Slow Down. The same discipline applies to setting an annual goals.

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JANUARY 7, 2011

UNICEF Haiti365 – Be Their Voice – I'm really excited to see this new campaign from UNICEF – focused on the children in Haiti, and building on a multimedia effort to move people into engagement. "Haiti With this post I’m going to take a slightly different tack on the end-of-year ritual top 10 lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2015

As many of you know, I am working on a new book The Happy Healthy Nonprofit with co-author Aliza Sherman. January starts a new year and a good time to reflect, recharge, and establish healthy habits that make us more effective in our nonprofit work. And you’ll get your writing in front of new readers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 31, 2009

One of my favorite things about this time of year is reflecting and planning. I've been enjoying other bloggers' reflection and planning posts like: Journal Peek: My 2010 Strategic Planner—Goal Setting for Creatives by Lisa Sonora Beam musepreneur: creative ways to commemorate your year by Jennifer Lee on wishstudio.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

As a larger narrative, USA Today reported in August 2021 that traditionally marginalized communities actually see crypto as a new path to wealth ( Black, Latino, LGBTQ investors see crypto investments like bitcoin as ‘a new path’ to wealth and equity ). They’re getting this from mostly new donors.”.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2015

I decided to give myself a gift this year: permission to change the Museum 2.0 I've been blogging weekly for almost nine years. I believe in the power of ritual. I'm nervous to let go of a ritual that has been so meaningful to me (and hopefully, to you) for so long. Dear reader, Today is my birthday. Frequently.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Well, that''s exactly how astronaut Ron Garan ''s new book, The Orbital Perspective , starts. Though exploration in space led Garan to many new frontiers; perhaps his most important discovery came in the form of a parallel reality. There are more things that we share in common than things that separate us," says Garan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? Making New Habits and Keeping Them. StandOut 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Note from Beth: I was thrilled to be interviewed by Steve along with many other nonprofit data nerds, for his new book, Data Driven Nonprofits. He was kind enough to send me an advanced copy and it is definitely a must read. These are some of the questions that I set out to answer in my new book Data Driven Nonprofits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 13, 2012

Spend some quality time with the new book, Rapid Realignment , and you'll learn how to ensure that your strategy, customers, processes and people work seamlessly together in the service of customers and that those four elements continually realign in the face of constant change. The authors, Dr. George H.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 8, 2010

I awoke the other morning contemplating the ritual of New Year’s resolutions. It’s what we do at this time of year. So, I’ll make x, y and z my New Year’s resolutions. It seems to me that often we come up with resolutions for a variety of reasons. We ‘should’. I urge you not to miss it.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In 2010, the Children''s Museum of Tacoma was getting ready to move to a new, bigger facility. Over the years, they had noticed that 50% of their visitors were coming for free or at reduced cost--whether on free days or with special passes. Attendance jumped from 40,000 at their old facility to about 120,000 at the new facility.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. But when we started reframing this in terms of idiosyncratic rituals, we got further. When you felt that sense of "fiero!"--an

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AUGUST 7, 2009

Clouding the situation from the other side are the over-optimistic claims from the Internet world that it’ll all be online in a matter of a few years. Responding to direct mail is intimately tied to bill-paying, and as the bill-paying ritual shifts online, so will a great deal of giving. I am not alone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

with Gwen Bell As I mentioned in my post, Taking Back Your Time: Is Unplugging the New Green? Having a ritual, practice, or totem can help you be more conscious about your online time. One of the main reasons I go to BlogHer is to connect with old friends and to make new ones like: Beth of My Plastic-free Life. and many more!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. I felt like a new teacher on the first day of school. I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. But for some reason, I applied none of those lessons to my new situation. I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Making New Connections, Reinforcing Old Ones. It was great to see some familiar faces and make new connections. It was great to connect with Ory Okolloh – Ushahidi , who I have known for many years. She created a wonderful closing ritual that helped the community form.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

And everyone has to build new bridges together. That’s what happened when the Blackfoot people and the Glenbow Museum worked together over the course of twenty years to repatriate sacred medicine bundles from the museum to the Blackfoot. They had been passed down from the gods for use in rituals and ceremonies. But not to keep.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

The City Gallery was mounting a contemporary art exhibition at the New Walk Museum called Play Ground , which featured artists who treat the gallery space as a kind of carnival instead of as an aesthetic temple. Once the new signs had been made, I challenged Inspectors to place them somewhere in the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Now, with over a year of virtual meetings under our belts and the future of office-centric work for all being unclear, hybrid meetings are likely to become our new normal. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Beware of Power Imbalances and Group Dynamics.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

For the majority of nonprofits the last quarter of the year makes the majority of the year’s revenue. A little learning may be the difference between getting it right or missing a golden opportunity to connect with new sources of support. . Chinese New Year. Why is this? There are 7.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. Never ending work with new demands and expectations. 11, 2017, and Jan. Distractions and addiction.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

Now, two years later, Frank has received over 100,000 postcards. PostSecret motivates people to start their own communities and rituals for secret sharing. There’s an urgency to the secrets—even ones that have been hidden for tens of years—because the postcard represents the moment at which it was finally let out.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Read Brain Tracy ''s new book, Unlimited Sales Success , twice! Then, from cover to cover to learn a host of new strategies and techniques to propel your sales success and results. Separately, I appreciate Brian Tracy''s advice on good habits and morning rituals for daily success.

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