Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2017

Look ahead rituals can build space into your schedule. As projects get more complex or your organization is trying to accomplish more with less resources, it gets harder to accomplish without more intentional planning. The article describes the reasons why operating like this all the time is not a good idea: 1. Leader loses credibility.

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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. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

2) Identify “My Three Themes”: I do a combination of Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” Chris Brogan’s ritual suggests selecting three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. I also look at what was missing or where I was not so happy or made mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

While there are a variety of different gadgets that you can use to track your sleep, I use the Fitbit Charge 2. The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. Drum roll, please… Adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

2.) Visualize On Paper: Over the past 10 months, I’ve made a return to paper and markers and using mind maps or visualization techniques to reflect, plan my week or day. It’s why felt the need to dive into visual facilitation and thinking techniques as a way to cope with content fried.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

2: Practice Mental Distancing. There are also lots of ideas for different rituals that your nonprofit can establish to help people keep positive. #7 I’m trying to get the recommended 6-8 hours of sleep per night to help me feel better, although I do admit that in the beginning I suffered from plague induced insomnia. #2:

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JUNE 12, 2017

Practice Culture of Philanthropy Rituals and Incorporate Cues. Rituals are repeated behaviors that foster a positive work environment and tell a story about your organization’s culture of philanthropy. The morning ritual is a chance for all to reflect on the organization’s results and be inspired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Level 2: Feelings Factor – Do people feel appreciated and respected? Ritual of staff praise at meetings or monthly award, not just a raise. The framework is based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, mapped to an organization’s hierarchy of needs: • Level 1: Functioning Factor – Do people have what they need to do their job?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I’m not a happy camper unless I’m learning something and for me learning is about reflection – which includes blogging and establishing rituals like the 18 minute process that Bregman shares in his book (see below.) Step 2: One of Reflection for Each Hour (8 minutes). What I have learned?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The general population across all ages showed that men (22%) are more than 2 times more likely to be crypto holders than women (10%) ( Pew Research, 2021 ). Crypto communities are tied together through Discords, NFT communities, DAOs, Twitter, rituals and a shared belief in the value of the assets they collect. population.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

Watercolor postcard with collage 2. Jennifer Lee has a wonderful post up on the Right Brain Business Plan blog about writing a letter to your future self as part of a creative goal setting ritual. Write a letter to yourself. Write letters to people you love.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2011

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Having a ritual, practice, or totem can help you be more conscious about your online time. BlogHer '12 : August 2-4, 2012 (NYC). One of the conference sponsors had an exhibit area with 10+ puppies running around. I held one little dachshund, Paprika, till my arms hurt. Tweet Share.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

This sparked our activity for day 2, where we invited Inspectors to make nose trumpets to amplify the smell of the museum. And the kids were often 5 and younger, so some of the Ministry ritual may have gone over their heads. But in the particular context of the museum at half-term, I don't know if it actually was that vital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

One ritual that you can use is the “Opening Circle,” where you have a google document or slide and everyone creates a name tag as they arrive and indicates whether they are remote or in-person in a group. Beware of Power Imbalances and Group Dynamics. As you did with virtual meetings, you will no doubt have to call on people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

The report elaborates on these themes and is organized into three sections: 1) anecdotes and comments about the positives of digital life; 2) anecdotes and comments about potentially harmful aspects of that life; and 3) responses in which people’s statements or anecdotes were fairly evenly split with both pros and cons of digital life.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2011

They remind me of Catholics who miss the old days when everything was in Latin and ignore the fact that the antiquated rituals they long for also led to serious erosion of use and value of the churches themselves. Myth #2: White-centric is OK, other-centric is not. The important thing is not that a museum employs these tools or those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2016

Is the “WAW” completely dependent on you or has it become a shared workplace ritual? Don’t leave at 2:15 if you say 2PM is the time. Each week I take a selfie of the group. My goal is to have so many of us, we need to ask someone else to take the photo. What are your tips for integrating walking meetings into the nonprofit workplace?

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