The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I use an online thesaurus called Word Hippo to come up with alternatives and try out different versions of the copy. 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. Finally, Understand Yourself and Your Own Process.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Accessible content , with alternative text for images, captions for videos and audio elements, sufficient color contrast , and other usability must-haves. Options to read your content in different languages depending on your audience’s needs. Simple language free of jargon. Casual content makes your blog more welcoming to new audiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We miss these, because the media doesn't cover this, and for many of us, our brains are more wired to dwell on the negative than on the positive. People are already creating the alternatives, right now. But there is, along side it, evidence of how things could look, and be different. So maybe that's my role.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We miss these, because the media doesn't cover this, and for many of us, our brains are more wired to dwell on the negative than on the positive. People are already creating the alternatives, right now. But there is, along side it, evidence of how things could look, and be different. So maybe that's my role.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Adaptability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. ” It is a technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact. Last March, I tucked my mobile phone into a sleeping bag (see above) and turned off the screens. I need to do a digital detox once a quarter or even once a month, not once a year.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. This book explores how our brains are, truly, hardwired for good or as, Science magazine put it, “the biology and neuroscience of human prosociality.” And the alternative is this.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

While some introduced alternative philosophies for measuring the nuances tied to social media, others wondered aloud whether ROI simply wasn’t necessary as the tools and methodologies for analyzing yields didn’t yet exist. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Sometimes you don’t have the ability to do a survey before, especially if it is an online webinar or a conference session. There are alternative ways to do research. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2018

Even stories about alternate worlds and mystical creatures get us caught in the feels. And to tell a story that is interesting or compelling to someone else is to know what stories are already in their brains. Some of our favorite stories are fiction, and some of them are nonfiction. Starting your story from scratch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2006

This post describes what good game designers do to "turn your brain on" or "cognitive arousal." User experience as brain teaser. User experience as alternate reality. " Passionate Users Blo g has tweaked some gaming design rules to apply to NON-game experience. Typology of Cognitive Pleasures. (in

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The introductory label talks about "strangeness, mystery, and oddity" and comments that, "when things are strange, the brain sends out feelers for meaning." While the Odditoreum was initiated fairly explicitly for children and family on holiday, the Powerhouse doesn't message it as something just for kids.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

And while we are with you in moving away from words such as empower , we’ll stick to providing a few alternatives here rather than a full entry (maybe try out inspire , encourage , or some form of partnering with ). While not as succinct, a potential alternative to “brainstorming session” could simply be an “idea generation session.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Scamper stands for: S ubstitute: What are the alternatives to materials, processes, methods you’re already using/doing? Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

But, consider the alternative: continuing to do everything yourself, with sporadic support from Board members and volunteers. It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. Create policies and procedures, so everyone is treated fairly. 20% a year?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Try pushing through writer's block by using some alternative writing and methods: Lists. There's not much new brain work required, just re-packaging. Use tools like Google Calendar to assign work and plan publishing in whatever time frame is realistic for you -- week, month, or quarter. Q & A Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. We worked with a partner and had to alternate counting to three. He first dispelled the myth that improvisation is only about stand up comedy and telling jokes. He asked us to define it. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding. Flexibility. Co-Creating. Making stuff up.

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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 ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation. multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms. each of various qualities. More here ). * The mindshift to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I have a hypertext brain. Mentions an alternative tool to Feedburner - Pheedo. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a confession, I'm one of those people who does not read a book cover-to-cover in linear way. Important benchmark in your field.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

We’ve seen everything from completely fresh “Choose Your Own Adventure” type fundraisers to new takes on classic school events that combine typical school events like spelling bees, show and tell, brain bowls, and talent shows with fundraising. Allow Alternative Payment Methods.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Being on the C2 planning team has stretched my brain to consciously think about the processes and conditions for creativity and collaboration. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Registration for C2 will close at the end of April.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. Growing Supply and Increasing Demand. How robust is the used computer market and is it trending down or up?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Yet, for many purposes, refurbished equipment presents nonprofits, libraries, and lower-income families with a more affordable alternative to new equipment; one that will do nearly everything that new computers do. Growing Supply, Increasing Demand. How robust is the used computer market and is it trending down or up?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. For several years, he struggled in school because his vision was blurry and reading normal size print was grueling. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Having only been incorporated for a year and receiving just last week an anonymous donation to cover our 501c3 filing, we still have a little way to go before we get there.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Who would set their sights on these mundane aspects of human experience, things that recede into the background, given the glitzy alternative of commercial games? Similarly, the enormously successful casual Brain Game, which is essentially a repetitive IQ test experience, isn't popular solely because it's fun.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Please share your own experiences with alternative strategic planning processes in the comments! The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. The topic of writing can be a touchy sub­ject because many people are insecure about their poor writing skills. You may not have a staff of great writers, but you may have a staff of great thinkers.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So this is a different alternative to what you can do with fundraising, and it’s a lot easier because it’s focused on the funder lens asset alignment and then you’ve created this map and you know where to focus. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So this is a different alternative to what you can do with fundraising, and it’s a lot easier because it’s focused on the funder lens asset alignment and then you’ve created this map and you know where to focus. 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.”

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Push your stories out to your audiences through all your channels, alternating with graphics emphasizing your key messages. But let that sink in. Which ones do people comment on?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. Use fields provided for alternate names if you can for those nicknames. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. Why do we need it? Use full names.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

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? Take a guess.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

The program RadioLab does this so well, featuring two scientist hosts who frequently ask each other: do you really think that X does Y in your brain? It may help us cut to the grappling if we ask questions that are more human/personal than abstract/ideological. and answer based on their personal feeling.

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