Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Brainstorming generates creative solutions to a problem in the hope of finding the best solution. The first time you do it, you ask each person to respond to the idea with the word no, then say their idea.

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AUGUST 20, 2010

These questions (and others) prompted a discussion about privacy concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

This makes it easier to focus on the content while handling additional questions, troubleshooting and technical problems. It’s Time for Next Generation Virtual Collaboration by Civicist – tips for online collaboration. It’s Time To Get Good At Virtual Meetings by Spitfire. How To Look Good on Camera (NY Times).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

I’ve done this exercise hundreds of time and the results across nonprofits are similar. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.” Workload and deadlines are big stress triggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

When I worked with a web developer for my blog redesign and hearing about how nonprofits typically approach platform design, there isn’t this much depth and creativity. Many times it is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and features. We had to understand the problem and the challenge we were working on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

Here's the link to the NY Times story. We also took the further step of sending out a general email advising all subscribers of the problem and cautioning them to be on the lookout for emails that appeared to come from TechSoup requesting personal or financial information. Here's Allan's commentary. More at NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. At Google, we believe that AI can give us new ways of addressing problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. Can you explain more about Google’s take on this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2005

So, now going through the time consuming process of moving everything I need to my laptop. That's keeping me from the time consuming process of finishing my first podcast. The hard drive of my deskstop computer, an ancient Dell, appears to be dying. Thank god I have backups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Most jobs will have some parts of it automated, freeing up those people to do more human things like build stronger relationships and solve complex problems. By automating grunt work and freeing up time for staff, there is an opportunity for a kinder and vibrant workplace culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy. Karen Bloom, the CEO at Project Kesher, saves up problems that her staff is trying to address and bundles into a weekly problem solving walking meeting. If the whole group is to be involved, make time to stop and gather as a whole. The Actual Walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

The design thinking methodology encourages exploration of unconventional solutions by looking at a problem from the point of view of the people being served. The many methods of Design Thinking go through a similar path of gathering research, analyzing and identifying the right problem, developing creative ideas, and testing prototypes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I am in Brasil to keynote the Social Good Brasil Conference (had to vote early), but I can still watch democracy unfold in real-time through my friends updates on Twitter, Facebook, and other social channels. I love seeing these photos of polling places where my friends are voting. Features include: Easier reporting.

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JUNE 22, 2017

Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally. Over time these reactions can lead to acute anxiety, depression, irritability, fatigue, and other health problems from heart disease to lowered immune response.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health problem. And while the trackers can’t determine if you really are sleeping, it records the total time asleep, number of times restless or awake and total time restless based on your body movement. Start with getting enough sleep.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

So if you’ve had problems in the past with equipping your team – or yourself – with essential skills to take your work to the next level, then lean in and get ready to get schooled on effective training: TMI: Don’t overload participants with too much information. Break time? Participants will love you for it!

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MAY 1, 2014

When I mentioned this to a colleague, he asked me “How the heck do you make the time to do this? ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! What have you cut from your schedule.?” Also, if I’m on calls I do them while walking around.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

I first became interested in the topic after reading David Shenk’s “ Data Smog ” in 1998 using the metaphor of environmental problems to talk about the dangers of having too much online information, primarily email. The problem of “information overload” is nothing new and has been around for centuries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

In Santa Barbara, a common theme was that their nonprofits operated in “Crisis Mode” all the time and it has created a culture of stress. Identify your PCI: Personal Chaos Index or when your work is out of balance and you’re not taking the time to smell the roses. Crisis As Workplace Culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

For the second short exercise, we were asked to jump into solving the design challenge, in this case, design the perfect wallet. That is a typical problem-solving approach, taking on a given problem, working using your own opinions and experience to guide you, and with a solution in mind to be designed. Once upon a time x happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

We think that it is time to invite them to the “adults’ table”—even though this may entail a gawky “adolescent” phase. And fourth and finally, relationships take time, yet our culture focuses on the short term. Taking relationships seriously can feel awkward. Identifying sources of discomfort will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2014

Problem solve ; Problem solving can be enhanced by the physical activity of walking (“thinking on your feet”), as well as informal interactions among people. The Actual Walk: Plan your route in advance, if possible, so you know how far you can walk in your allotted time and avoid noisy spots or too narrow walkways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

Allison Fine, who authored " Social Citizens" , a paper recently released by The Case Foundation on the intersection of Millennials, social change and social media, wonders whether it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service? but is it time for nonprofit leaders to extol the virtue of government service?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region. Seek outsider knowledge. How does this apply to funders?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. A recent article in the New York Times describes how new AI driven systems are getting better at natural language. AI Technology. AI Is Getting Better At Conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

And, finally then we had to introduce the other person to the whole group by sharing the map. But we had to do our introductions in one minute or less and were timed! If you are curious about more techniques, I suggest David Staker’s “ Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Nonprofits that can lead and develop programs based on an analysis of the problem or need, grounded in useful data that shows impact, and a commitment to getting better over time will move faster together towards solving today’s complex problems. You can download the full report here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

We must not accept any technology as the default solution for our problems. The AI program is only applied to consenting individuals and participants can quit the program at any time and their data will be removed from the model. Good quote: “To a hammer, everything is a nail. everything is a computational challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

Overwork and stress can lead to burnout and depression and that can lead to even bigger problems. The book devotes an entire chapter to the problem of working excessive hours. Working excessive hours during the year, but not taking paid time off. And here’s a summary of the research that proves it. Working when sick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter. She is now working the field of Artificial Intelligence, working AI-based solutions to planetary-scale problems. But now, AI can analyze many more scans in less time with a great deal of precision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Note From Beth: Colleague Ben Rigby, co-founder and CTO of Sparked , a micro-volunteering networked has a problem. The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. Interested?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

State of AI in Advancement Survey : According to the Nonprofit Times article on the survey , AI Uses Among Nonprofits is still in the very early stages. Solving Humanities Problems With AI: A Quick Guide, an article from the UK Charity News, interviews Microsoft’s AI for Good program staff. AI4GOOD NONPROFIT READS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Many times the reaction to focusing on organizational culture and wellbeing is considered “soft” or “nice” stuff that not lead to results or impact. Flexible hours to accommodate personal time. Give real-time feedback and praise, established feedback loops for employees. Hike during staff retreat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Even if you use features like “night shift” on your mobile phone that softens or warms up that blue light, there isn’t enough data to support that it solves the problem. How are you going to commit to self-care to reduce stress and the chance of burnout during these chaotic times?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

According to that study there are two important pieces to relationship-based memory that can be captured: Social capital: Time spent interacting on work tasks establishes a sense of reciprocity and trust among colleagues. We should be looking at the problem the other way around — figuring out how best to get knowledge into our heads.

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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. Games can also empower players to help solve seemingly impossible scientific problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

This approach means the instructor takes a “guide on the side&# approach versus “expert on the stage.&# And, of course, it takes more preparation time than slapping together a powerpoint. If you use a survey ahead time, you can do more fine-tuning. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

This is not a unique problem, many nonprofits face the issue of “silos,” often because different departments or teams don’t have the opportunity to get to know others in their organizations in an informal way. BirthdayBot collects everyone’s birthdays which reduces time investment and errors.

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