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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AccelEvents

JANUARY 20, 2021

With the focus now on virtual and hybrid events, how do event planners and brands create and deliver content that will foster attendee engagement and keep them coming back for more? To combat this, you will need to focus on producing quality content and include event features that encourage participation.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Event planners took this fact to heart in building a conference agenda that was a nice combination of roadmap previewing and a range of how-to, hands-on, and both technical and non-technical content. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this roundup, I compiled the best year-end fundraising advice from several nonprofit consultants in my network. If you had one piece of advice for successful end-of-year fundraising what would it be? When a donor reads your year-end appeal, their brain is working fast to answer this question: “Is this for me?”

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 13, 2015

As the advice our guest bloggers offered in 2014 is certainly just as timely as we start 2015, we thought it would be a great idea to thank our guest bloggers again for their wisdom and republish their great advice with you now! In today’s economy, a lot of us have job hunting on the brain. Planning Your Next Career Move?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

You should never go in blind when making content for your organization or event. The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. ” is front and center on the flyer. Adobe Express. Vistacreate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. Rheingold reminds us of the value of becoming a content curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. I’m mainly listening for where groups get stuck or derailed from doing the exercise and occasionally step into the “expert&# role of providing advice, if needed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Michaela Hackner, Project Director & Content Strategist, Forum One Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

He has some terrific advice about how to apply visual thinking to your data visualization and to get insights. But first, he simplifies what visual thinking is: Look, See, Imagine, and Show. ” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content. Look: What is out there? I thought was done!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when the latest version of Microsoft Office became available for eligible nonprofits, charities, libraries, and foundations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program , we teamed up with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com, to host a tweet chat. Give your brain downtime to create.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. User-generated content for training can be powerful and also make participants more open to subject matter. You tell participants you might not have time to cover all the content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2011

I'll be one of the Write Brain | Essential Content Development workshop leaders at BlogHer '11 on August 5th. • Opportunities to Make Your Blog Juicy Bay Area folks • I'm teaching a Jumpstart Your Blog! workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley on July 9th Everyone! My next Juicy Blogging E-Course runs from September 21-October 12.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Personal Productivity in Practice. ” Staying curious keeps you going and avoid burnout.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2020

From my own side, I have so much energy, if I don't find plenty to keep my brain busy, I can go awry. It shouldn’t be a chore to find out where to get advice and help. It might be obvious, given a full-time job, consulting practice, and weekly blog. I've thought a great deal about myself. How much of this is healthy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. More importantly, they gave me enough incentive to start reading blogs and also had some simple 1-2-3 advice for selecting a RSS reader. What is the content of the blog? Who is author?

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

Check out this ridiculously long list of 15NTC content. Advice from #15NTC , Tessa Srebro, VolunteerMatch [2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference] Part 1 - How do I configure it? We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Did we miss anything?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

If you are bored with my description of process and hungering for the content, here’s Devon’s “Storify&# documentation for the session. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. And, I discovered that there is a Fortress Nonprofit on Twitter providing great advice about organizational change.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

But finding the staff time and creativity to come up with fresh, original content for every channel on a regular basis can be exhausting. Us e the content you've already created and reheat or remix it over time and across channels. Focus on creating great marketing content. When writing content, go from cakes to cupcakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2019! Superb content. First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. I’d love to hear what stood out most from the fundraising tips above and how you plan on implementing the advice at your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. Check out the SDCTC Community Portal (is the idea of a "portal" web 2.0 20 practices.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2014! Superb content. First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. I’d love to hear what stood out most from the fundraising tips above and how you plan on implementing the advice at your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This workshop was advertised as a crash course and I think packed enough content in there for 3 full days. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. This gives the you -as the trainer an idea of how well the content matches people's questions and to let people know. tags: arts ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I've been following Marc Sirkin's blog for about a year before I met him at last year's Games for Change Conference where he taught me Brain Age and Mario. (At What advice would you give to someone who is developing their keyword advertising campaign with Google Ad Words? What are your tips and advice? Can you share some steps?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

My advice is to find one or two blogs that you really find useful and then gradually add blogs that are referenced by that blog and that you find enjoyable. I hate it when I can't instantly pull facts out of my brain. So, I'm adding some context as to why. The short answer. My memory is fading. I find myself stumbling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. I don't really have commercial aims for my blog so it is more a playground and archive for my brain, which I hope will be useful to whoever happens by. Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag?

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. If your current content management system doesn’t support multiple content types, consider switching to a more robust platform, like WordPress.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

If you all don’t know Emma, I mean, I’ve been seeing her awesome videos on LinkedIn and Facebook, and every time, just really good advice and just like breaks through to something that I never thought of that way. So let’s go ahead and dive deeper into the content. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

However, do to word count constraints the content below is not in its full entirety. Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Well-written, timely content is what drives the Social Web. Just a FYI. Please get training!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. The last chapter offers some practical advice, including the "Be Your Own Filter" and "Give A Hoot Don't Data Pollute.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

If you all don’t know Emma, I mean, I’ve been seeing her awesome videos on LinkedIn and Facebook, and every time, just really good advice and just like breaks through to something that I never thought of that way. So let’s go ahead and dive deeper into the content. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right?

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Money Raise Video Brain 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. Can you give me an example of some advice you've given some nonprofits? Any advice to me on how to improve my blog?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. But then I looked deeper.

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