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. Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. We adopted a set of Guidelines that TNT created (creative commons) to ENCOURAGE their staff to use social: bit.ly/YQe91n rachelannyes #npsmpeer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. 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. Not the early adopters suffering from Alzheimers ) What's their secret?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

It’s a new year, so that must mean it’s time for reflection. The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. I’d like to suggest an alternative, focused on what I am adopting as the 2016 word of the year— Gratitude. And the alternative is this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Constant stream of information - where do get a chance to reflect? How does having a shorter time for reflection change learning? How does this change our brains and the way we process information or even learn? Real Time Web for nonprofits is early adopter land right now. Or does that happen in real time? just saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I thought it would be a great oppotunity to reflect on process and help others. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic. It's an interactive flash site that lets users find and adopt words that are in danger of being removed from the dictionary. I adopted the word archiloquy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. 100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. Program Design.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. " Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn. As I see it, staying informed and reflection are part of my job. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation by Beth Kanter. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. 1) Email is Hot.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Neuroscientists can now show that the dopamine that floods your brain when you are happy also turns on all of your higher level executive functions—problem solving, task flexibility, reasoning, decision making, to name a few, as well as planning and execution. That is, the human capital, passion and promise that filled the space.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. It turns out good feelings elicited from giving are reflected in human biology. Giving to charities activates regions of the brain associated with pleasure, social connection, and trust, releasing endorphins that create a “warm glow” or “helper’s high” effect. Giving Makes People Feel Happy.

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