Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. If you want the basics about holding a meeting that is energizing instead of draining, here is a good summary from the Harvard Business Review: “ What Everyone Needs to Know About Running Productive Meetings.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

There are two different frames — you can use a networked mindset to increase your personal productivity or think of it in organizational strategy terms. How could it improve the personal productivity of your staff? There is also a field of practice and thought leaders who apply network thinking in a business context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

In his words: “For nearly 15 years, I’ve been making the case — in my writing and with corporate clients — that employees can be more productive by working fewer hours and taking more time for rest and renewal during the work day.” What is your secret to being productive? This includes tasks I do alone and with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Activities are designed to support organizational wellness for greater productivity and morale boosts. Studies confirm that creative activities – painting, drawing, dancing, playing music, theatre, or singing – can improve employee productivity and skills. How does your organization’s leadership model and support it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2015

I’m honored to be hosting the January, 2015 Nonprofit Blog Carnival and theme is personal productivity online. 2015 has arrived! If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you’ve probably made a few New Year’s resolutions that include being more productive and effective at your nonprofit job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). I’ll be doing a Guidestar Webinar on health and productive meetings on Feb. ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Join my session “ Unlocking Productivity with Generative AI Writing Tools for Nonprofit Marketers ” on March 7 at 10:30 am PT. This session is for staff at the beginner level of using AI and want to responsibly adopt generative AI and reap productivity benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Rituals can boost our personal productivity because they allow us to focus and reach our goals without distraction. In 2023, I continued to present keynotes, deliver practical workshops using generative AI for nonprofit productivity, and write articles. Rituals can also be used by teams in the workplace to improve effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

So much of our work life is being in meetings, but many times are a participant, not the meeting leader. What can we do as a participant to make meetings more productive? Look Out for Others: While this is the role of the meeting leader, it is a great way to contribute productively to meetings. The Healthy Meeting Mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." " I keep thinking there has to be a sweet spot between social productivity and personal productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

These examples of micro productivity examples can applied easily to working. Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. In order to stay productive, and resilient, I have used many of the techniques for building resilience that I share on this blog and plan to continue in 2021. What about you? What will you accomplish in 2021?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2019

There is now enough evidence from research that stressful workplaces are counter-productive to impact. More and more organizations are instituting non-traditional workplace policies in an effort to reduce burnout and increase productivity, including shorter work weeks (four 10-hour days per week), working at home, or different schedules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2021

In addition to the mental health benefits of improving your mood, moving your body also brings blood to the brain that helps you think more clearly and boosts personal productivity. A sedentary lifestyle is linked to slow metabolism, poor blood sugar control, and a decrease in the body’s ability to effectively break down fat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2018

It’s a fun way to avoid one of the most common meeting productivity killers: Rabbit Holes. Virtual meetings are also prone to non-productive discussions. What techniques, rituals, or meeting norms does your nonprofit have to make meetings more productive? How does it work? They can use the ELMO technique!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

That's on the agenda for the Boston Mediamakers meeting this Sunday. I posed a question on the video bloggers list about how to get good audio. David Tames offered some great tricks here. He's leading the discussion on Sunday. David kindly pointed me to the online discussion and some tips from Arin Crumley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

As a sector, we need to understand that working endlessly long hours is not productive. After reading this book that examines the research on the negative health and productivity impacts on overworking, one can’t help to wonder why we are still doing it. Long Hours Culture Is Not Productive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2017

One the best known researchers is Teresa Amabile , a professor at Harvard Business School and whose research focuses on what makes people creative, productive, happy, and motivated at work. For nearly 20 years, she has studied the psychological experiences and the performance of people doing complex work inside organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2020

Experts point to several reasons why we are feeling a loss of vitality, productivity, and wellbeing in our virtual workplaces: Online-mediated interaction and communications deprive us a full sensory experience as we are only limited to audio and visual experiences (when using video conferences) or just text.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

Sleep in the workplace may seem like an oxymoron, but napping during the day can improve cognitive functioning, leading to greater productivity at work. Better yet, approach your employer about a meditation or nap room and show them data on increased productivity from a well-rested staff. But don’t limit your shut-eye to your bed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A workplace culture that is stressful has links to illness, absenteeism, and there are dramatic drops in productivity. Creating positive social connections at work offer a key productivity benefit: people are more likely to learn from each other, sharing and combining their thoughts more freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I have found this productivity very useful in my own work and Ma’ayan was kind enough to write up this guest post for nonprofit professionals. . BuJo was designed by Ryder Carroll, a digital product designer. The topic was bullet journaling and the table host was nonprofit tech colleague Ma’ayan Alexander.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

John never stopped being productive, even at the end. He passed with the rising of the snow moon, full moon, super moon. A special celestial event. We will all miss him and a great loss to the nonprofit marketing field. He was working and completed his legacy book, Donor Care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2023

We also discuss the implementation of anonymous upward feedback surveys and pulse checks to create a safe and productive work environment. Read on as we explore the concept of an environment of fairness, the impact of the pandemic on workplace culture, and the need for good management and accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Sound familiar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I recently discovered a blogging work flow tool called Zemanta , that according to its web site. will save you time and increase traffic. It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad. It recommends links and photos while you write.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

While some procrastination can be beneficial, it can reduce your productivity if it gets out of hand. That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. How do you procrastinate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. .” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2005

and via Ed Batista , I found a great list of tips for productive blogging by Keith Robinson at To-Done. (As So, what else could I do, but take my laptop outside to blog in the shade.but it is still to hot to think! Maybe it isn't too hot to read, so I started to make a dent in the hundreds of new posts in the aggregator. Wow, these are great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

We have to not beat ourselves up if we are not as productive during a crisis – and this is not just a weather event. I’m not always successful or productive, but I’m getting better at it). And, it is going to take some adjustments for us all as this piece by Prof. It will be a marathon. 6 Focus On Positive Thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. The Pomodoro method and app is one way to avoid the productivity loss of procrastination. Here’s a guide to this useful productivity habit. Share it below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

David Tames is a filmmaker, podcaster, media technologist, strategist, and designer who has worked as a producer, director, editor, or cinematographer on numerous film, video, web, and multimedia projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2017

He offers some good reasons why: making up for working long hours all year; compensate for low pay; improve morale; and boost individuals’ resilience and productivity. Vu Lee in a recent guest post on the Guidestar blog has issued a call to inaction suggesting that nonprofits should give the week off to staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I recently interviewed Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink, Head of Product Impact, who designed the challenged to learn more. I’m the Head of Product Impact at Google.org, working to use emerging technology and Google’s expertise for social impact. I understand that the Google AI Impact Challenge is something that you created.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2007

At Logan Airport loaded up with swag Found a plug and wifi at LAX My husband and kids dropped me off at Logan Airport a couple of hours before my flight to LA to connect to my flight to Phnom Penh via Singapore to attend the Cambodia Bloggers Summit. I flew American Airlines and the terminal was a zoo. I waited in line 2.5

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