Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. ” questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” Talking VS Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. ” Plus many more provocative questions. The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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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 have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question. Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. I started with a better bedtime ritual for myself that including meditation and other calming activities which allowed me to settle into a less agitated state to get some rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. It is important to think about different delivery options – individual, small group, and large group activities. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. We’ve got an awesome expert here that’ll answer as many questions as we can before the 2:00 hour. And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. Just look for an email from me towards the end of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Role Playing Simulation For Making ROI Argument: Many nonprofits are often faced with the question, “What the value of social media&# from senior management. Having a metaphor, made it easy. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

One of the questions that threaded into each conversation or presentation was, “What is important for creating a wisdom-based culture?” Soren asked a terrific question about how technology and being connected helps or gets in the way of giving. I use pen and a note book to take notes! I call it slow social media.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. In the near future, your bot may develop superpowers like the ability to predict user questions and proactively respond. Building blocks based on point-and-click or drag-and-drop techniques, allow anyone to become a developer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

She goes on to say that there are other activities that really require moving a network - and social productivity. So, the real question is - if you have both of these types of tasks to accomplish- they take different approaches, probably use different sides of your brain, etc. social media context?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These questions are reserved for scientists with a philosophical bent like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye to sort out. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. NLP techniques can be used to understand and generate text, translate, and perform other language-related tasks.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? To take it a step further, bring some fun into the workplace with an employee-driven break activity that happens at the same time each day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. While she didn’t teach us improvisation exactly, she lead us through some group discussions on the question: What do we do when things go wrong? As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens. Flexibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. ” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. .”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) Question : Traveling for business often derails a person''s healthy eating habits, exercise routine, and sleep routine. to create the resiliency you need to combat stress. All with no equipment!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

My teaching style has been influenced by constructivism in short - less "sage on the stage" and "more guide on the side" and that learners should be actively involved in their learning process. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Here are several techniques you can use to strategically listen to and interact with the people you are targeting online: Know What People Are Saying About You. It may be better to use monitoring tools to find channels of current activity." try out new experiments and ask questions - and count on consistent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. This process consists of three activities.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. It’s probably not a new term for you, but if you’re a little lost on where to start, here’s some guiding questions to consider: Specific – What do you want to accomplish? 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this. The S.M.A.R.T

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2013

Read Brain Tracy ''s new book, Unlimited Sales Success , twice! Then, from cover to cover to learn a host of new strategies and techniques to propel your sales success and results. First, to cherry-pick and quickly discover the solutions to your most pressing sales challenges and roadblocks.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so I invite you to join us for our retreat, which is in two weeks.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Supporters will navigate to a donation page, but if it’s too lengthy or asks too many questions, they may end up leaving the page without donating.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Ask questions as we go along. There’s a Q&A tab, so put your questions in the Q&A tab. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So you may have something called appeals, or activities, or whatever. So don’t be shy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Before the demos, compile questions you have about using the software solution. Social media challenge In a social media challenge, nonprofits invite supporters to complete a task or activity and document it on their social media to raise awareness and funds. You may need several demos before you’re ready to buy fundraising software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? And, we have to understand and apply a little brain science. When you’re constantly jumping between Facebook, email and texts, however, your brain has to divide its limited resources.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea.

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