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. There are many ways to do this, but try to avoid the “Q/A of the Expert at the End,” and facilitate discussion that is more reflective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. 1. Body Breaks: Incorporate some sort of movement or body activity every ten minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, 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

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. These participants clearly understood the concepts of making a ROI case – and how to transfer those techniques to social media. Ellie taught a great trick.

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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. What is Brainstorming? .

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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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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Between all the events , phone calls and mailings your plan can bring you and your team back to the most important activities. We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. This is how much you need to raise in other types of fundraising activity during the next calendar year.

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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. I set up opportunities for people to apply what they just heard through reflective questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. 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. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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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. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. And I’ll give you about 30 seconds or so to activate. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected. As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens.

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APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. 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

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 try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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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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JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this. Progress Bars.

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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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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so one of the things that has been such a big lesson, and an aha, and also a gift is when I started putting people first and then getting to the goal once I understood how to get my folks motivated, activated, interested, and owning the work that they did, like the sky opened up. So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique.

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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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