Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Going offline for 24 hours or more to reboot your brain can do your spirit, mind, and body a lot good. And it is a lot of fun to do with other people – so that’s why I really like the idea of the “ National Day of Unplugging ” which begins today, March 4th at sundown and last until sundown on Saturday, March 5th.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

One interesting silver lining comes from the rapid adoption of remote work, something that m any employees are now appreciating. Developing a daily route can be helpful in terms of productivity and getting your mind in the GTD (getting things done) zone. Just put on something that isn’t what you wore to bed. Work in Sprints.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

A disability is any condition of the mind or body that makes it more difficult for someone to partake in certain activities and may impair their ability to participate easily in normal daily pursuits. There is so much diversity in the world, but one type of diversity that often gets overlooked or forgotten is disability diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. More and more nonprofits are adopting flexible workplace or have remote teams in different cities. Your team can do a simple mindfulness exercise by starting a meeting with a deep breath and going around the table to share how you are feeling in the moment. Work to your energy.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Being adaptable will also require a lot of emotional intelligence, keeping an open mind, and dropping personal ego.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. The kind of food that nourishes the mind and body, and is foundational to growth and many other critical human needs, like education, housing, jobs, and transportation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Makes me wonder what type of economy Google Plus will be once get beyond the early adopter beta stage ? My point is that movement gets blood flood to brain and people wake up if they’re in an information overload coma). The small circle economy ?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

That’s what was on my mind as I made my way through the final week of 2015, with my mind clear, rested from the break but not yet ready to gear up for a return to work. The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. You could say it was a time for clarity.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2016

As it turns out, “our brains crave the positive evaluation of others almost to an embarrassing degree.” This means the gift would not be easily monetized in the recipient’s mind or could not be easily misconstrued as a financial incentive or pay-to-play. says study author Katrina Van Huss).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

And away with her brain went all the years of evidence that a certain supporter had played an integral role in getting grant funding from a couple of key local foundations. This loss of memory, and the months that passed before a new ED was hired, saw this supporter adopt a new cause – wholeheartedly, in fact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. His tweets reveal him as a renaissance thinker, not just a narrow-minded tech geek. . You have early adopters, a big scary chasm, and then more mainstreamed adoption of the tools.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, while we recognize the challenge of people still being in—and expressing—a pivot/unprecedented/back to normal state of mind, we won’t be rehashing that one this year. Additionally, and equally important for communicators to keep in mind, “illiterate” is a deficit-based word.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

If the venue is successful and we share our honest results, won't others want to adopt some of our practices? And yet, as Peter pointed out to me, if we love those unusual standouts so much, why don't more museums adopt elements of their practice? Maybe not. There's a whole section of this blog called Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

One of her points resonated with some other reflections I'm seeing on this side of the pond from early adopters in the nonprofit space in using tagging for resource sharing. Are these the early adopters of the Internet and whose brains have evolved along with the growth of electronic information and have superhuman prcocessing skills?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Make time for movement and mindfulness. Yet, both movement and mindfulness are two of the most important building blocks of a well-balanced mind and body. A month ago, I literally stuck a post it on my wall that read: “Are you thirsty?” in an effort to remember to drink water.). Exercise and meditation aremy game changers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

After all, you haven't received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear all over again: you've received the spirit of adoption!" . . The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

MagnaFlyer was developed with a large and specific audience in mind—individuals suffering from Macular Degeneration. This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills. It’s called MagnaFlyer.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

To do that, you need to value quality writing as much as you value quality programming, and you need to adopt a culture of quality writing as early in your lifecycle as possible to harness its power and influence. Editing can be a mind-numbing task and there were times I threw up my hands and said, “Why am I spending so much time on this?!”.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” We feel really inauthentic. Think about it.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” We feel really inauthentic. And the funders can feel this energy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

After all, you haven't received a spirit of slavery that leads you into fear all over again: you've received the spirit of adoption!" . . The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. So, Claire, I will pipe down here. Here we go.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. A humane society posting about a dog up for adoption could make a short video, a Facebook post, a web page, and an email.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Keep in mind that you can (and should) revise your plan in accordance with the other steps listed below. Keep in mind that you can also leverage social media tools for your fundraising campaigns. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Social media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." We so often mistakenly think of noncommercial technology as an area of slower adoption.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The final thing here with user adoption and support, and I see this all the time, is let’s say Mary is your data entry person. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. You read my mind exactly, Jennifer. We don’t mind. She does batch gift entry. She runs those acknowledgment letters. Steven: Hey.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

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. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. I’m not talking about mind tricks or anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

It pointed to a post from Stowe Boyd called " Information Overload, Schmoverload " that suggested the article was another attack on connectedness and whole brain attention. I'm reading John Medina's Brain Rules. He says the brain does these four steps in sequence each time we shift from one task to another.

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