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Try Exercise Snacking for Improving #WFH Mental Health

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Exercise snacking refers to “fun-sized” portions of exercise that fit into a day instead of what you may have traditionally thought of as “legit exercise” — like aerobics class at the gym. It’s called “ Exercise Snacking.”.

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#AI4Good: Augmenting Human Interaction

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These “instant-messaging using human fundraisers” chat with donors, provide links, may refer them to a chatbot for more information, or donation link. Having build that rapport, those human fundraisers can then refer someone to the bot to learn more information.

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Taking A Break from Blogging this Week: Ocean View Wins

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Taking a break from online this week to stare at the ocean, visit family, and air out the brain. As someone who spends a lot of time online, breaks like this can be good for the heart, soul, and brain. Someone referred me to this excellent post by Danah Boyd about how to take an email sabbatical.

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Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference

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” She references a paper from 2001 why organizational memory is important from Dr. Jeff Conklin from the CogNexus Institute and describes organizational memory into two types: formal and informal knowledge. The former refers to things like manuals and documents, which he points out we tend to preserve very well.

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A Few More Tips for Nonprofit Professionals To Avoid Getting Overwhelmed

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Because I keep a bullet journal, I can always refer back to my lists of tasks that need to done that week. It is all too easy to use that time to check Facebook or scan Pinterest and fritter it away. Later, we realized we wasted that time. Another idea is to keep list of resilience activities or activities that can help you feel satisfied.

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Chasing the Squirrels Out of Your Email Box: Gmail Priority Inbox

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I like to joke about how using social networks like Twitter can give you “ ADOLAS &# (ADD, Oh, look at Squirrel !). The reference is from the Disney/Pixar movie UP – the scenes where the talking dogs can’t finish a sentence because they get distracted by a squirrel.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

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The study talks about the future and what the most desirable life skills for young people will be in 20/20: Among those they listed are: Public problem-solving through cooperative work (sometimes referred to as crowd-sourcing solutions or using collective intelligence). Synthesizing (being able to bring together details from many sources).

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