Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today’s question comes from a major gift fundraiser who wants advice on whether it’s better to ask for too little or too much. . ” Essentially, it says the human brain compares subsequent options with one that came first and uses this as a means to make judgements.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 22, 2021

As you go about your day-to-day tasks, take time to notice the stories you are telling yourself about your work. But everyone has heard the advice before that stepping away from work is important. If these narratives are putting you in a negative light, challenge them! Although it only takes 5 minutes to submit a PTO request, right?)

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). It directs our attention, is responsible for moral decision-making, allows us to empathize with others, and helps coordinate the thousands of signals rushing around your brain.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. His advice? What's The Future Of Business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. He referred to a Stanford study that showed that successful, brilliant creative people go through a game of ping pong in their brains as they create: This is good!

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Source stories. Do the story and narrative help donors see how they can be on the “good” side? Vanessa of today knows that this is merely what my brain wants to do and if I don’t feed into, it will pass, and I can get to work. Develop a project brief ( more on the magic of project briefs here ). Write first drafts.

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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? It’s okay if it’s simple if you’re telling the right story. Are you prepared? Start earlier.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. His advice? What''s The Future Of Business?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. His advice? What''s The Future Of Business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2013

Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body ” on June 20th. You probably spend many of your waking hours helping others, connecting people who can benefit from knowing each other, and offering mentoring and advice. I was invited to a briefing session with other media and bloggers to learn more.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. His advice? What''s The Future Of Business?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2013

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you''ll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. His advice? What''s The Future Of Business?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether the use of stories or data will create a more compelling year-end appeal: Dear Charity Clairity, Should nonprofits appeal to reason or emotion in their appeals? Stories trigger emotion That’s because the human brain is wired for stories , not facts.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

14NTC is just around the corner and the community is buzzing with tips, recommendations, and other advice on making your Washington D.C. Make sure to bring your brain power to compete in Geek Bingo, a helicopter obstacle course, karaoke, and dodgeball! and NTC experience a rewarding one. and some early cherry blossoms.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

Instead, my brain is misfiring. I wanted to pass on useful advice to colleagues who couldn’t be in Santa Cruz. Monday morning, after such wonderful experiences with people from around the world in the cossetted kooky culture of Santa Cruz, I had hoped to create a blog post from my MuseumCamp notes. Instead, my heart feels exhausted.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. 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. Q: WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO NONPROFITS TO PREVENT BURNOUT FROM SPREADING? A: Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

” We have been on the hunt for stories, resources, and examples and thought we’d share a few resource collections we compiled for a recent webinar hosted by Wild Apricot. (If you have a story or resource that you’d like us to include the book, please let us know.). Train the brain to deal with chaos.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2019! First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Sharing the stories of how your donors’ gifts are making a difference. Mark Rovner , founder and CEO of Sea Change Strategies. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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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. For example, Ana-Marie Jones from Card Can Help shared how her small agency has implemented an effective social media strategy. I was able to capture some of her story with a FLIP camera.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2014

And then we stopped talking and our brains exploded with new information and connections. Otherwise, we would have gotten the same advice over and over. They told their stories and answered our questions with a perspective rooted deeply in their view. What We Learned.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They represent gray areas which may not be true today, but their tomorrow is an unwritten story. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Even though Chat’s decision-making is governed by algorithms, its data set is large enough to provide advice on a myriad of topics. Here is my disclaimer.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2014! First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Sharing the stories of how your donors’ gifts are making a difference. Mark Rovner , founder and CEO of Sea Change Strategies. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. What are tips, exercises, or advice you give them to deal with that fear? There is a story about lions in the Savannah in Africa. What advice are you giving to people about that? You are onto the right thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

You need to begin with sharing some stories about how other nonprofits are getting value from listening. KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. But the best advice is start small and spider out. This is how the American Red Cross started. Define Your Niche.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In this guide, we’ll highlight the following tips to help you improve your nonprofit website’s emotional appeals: Tell compelling stories. Tell compelling stories. Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

us to not only tell our story, but also get an honest understanding of. With that in mind, we asked you for your advice for monitoring online feedback as part of this month's Net2 Think Tank: Topic: What are your best practices for effectively monitoring online feedback about your organization, cause, or enterprise. Although this.

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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.) What is the best advice for making it all the way to the end of the fourth week? What''s the best advice to make business travel as least disruptive? Let’s say you’re trying to eat less food.

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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. How do you relate to my story? I see a lot of folks identify with this story as well. Steven: Yeah.

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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. How do you relate to my story? I see a lot of folks identify with this story as well. Steven: Yeah.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Through Spot.Us, the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important, and perhaps overlooked stories. Freelancers literally put their story ideas and their pitches up on our site, and they say, "This is the story I want to tackle." Just let us know what stories you're even starting to think of working on."

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Jimmie Alford, one of the great fundraisers in America, told me a story a few years ago, which was about this volunteer who had to raise money for mental health in a community. ” And the volunteer said, “Oh, I’m not asking for money, I just want to get your advice. Who else in the community should we talk to?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

"Stories told visually tend to naturally engage both sides of our brain. If you're just getting started with storytelling, we walk you through how to tell great stories. First, know what you want to accomplish, and second, understand what makes a compelling story.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Although you can find some exclusive advice from her on our blog as well, which we’ll link to if you’re interested in learning that. You have fallen into a new story. Do not confuse the beginning of the story with the end.” And the other way is to just use stories. That’s how it works.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events. Baldrick’s Foundation shares expert story-telling advice. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So I help organizations tell powerful stories that have raised collectively around a half billion dollars. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . Be an ambassador but tell a specific story? . They have someone that goes out to take photos, learn stories. ” Okay. . “Give.”

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