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7 Totally Surprising Brain Tricks to Sell Your Cause

NTEN

Appeal to the massive subconscious mind to help sell your cause. Yet we spend a lot of time trying to persuade people by focusing on the 5% rational brain with statistics, rational arguments and feature lists. Brain scans show people’s brains light up in the emotional areas when they see the mean. Network for Good.

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Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012 – guest post by Victoria Dunning. After Day 2 at the GEO conference my mind is abuzz! True insight and creativity come when we are relaxed and our mind is wandering, not when we are jacked up on Red Bull and a double-shot Venti cappuccino (even in Seattle). GEO’s 2012 National [.]

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

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Bay Area, in the summer of 2012. It will be a gamechanger in the US, with 10,000 of the smartest, most motivated young hackers and other young technoids being exposed to the best of web development, artificial intelligence, robotics, social networking, gaming and social engagement. They want their brains to matter.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it.

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Death By PowerPoint? Three Ways to Revive Your Presentations!

Tech Soup

Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain. But then when we are asked to create a presentation, we fall into the same trap. Additional Resources.

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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.” I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008.

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