Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

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. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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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. Avoid any discussion of ideas or questions, as these stop the flow of ideas. Asking the Right Brainstorming Question or Problem Framing is Secret to Success. You can brainstorm questions to kick off your session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Here are some questions that you should consider before embarking on your redesigning journey. 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. How will fundraising flyers benefit your organization?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

But as much as fundraising is a calling, it’s also a career that requires business development, sales, client retention, and articulable value propositions. Demonstrate (and articulate!) Otherwise, wouldn’t we all go make a lot more money in the corporate sector? Treating Donors Like Customers (But Not in a Bad Way).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2005

Last night I had a wonderful conversation with Corey Pudhorodsky who is the and brains behind 501c3Cast - Podcast for Nonprofits , a weekly podcast show of interviews and news about Nonprofit volunteers, do-gooders, and professionals. He asked great questions and a great "FM radio ," not to mention a good sense of humor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll have some time for question and answers to make sure that we can do our best to address some of the things that you and your teams and your boards are facing today. So we have three questions that will help anchor our conversation. And just to make it easy, we’ll ask you to type your questions in the chat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. we should add some questions to our NpTech Tag research about how people are aggregating and republishing content tagged with the NpTech Tag. or more like web 1.0?)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

And, if questions emerged about a specific case study or example we shared – we would point out that they could tweet that person and ask them the question. This happened when we shared some examples from the American Red Cross and participants tweeted their questions to Wendy Harman (who answered).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The best social media practitioners express their personalities with a dash of attitude and a bit of flair, and are comfortable articulating their opinions online. They express gratitude for support, and they acknowledge questions and concerns. They relish discussing ideas and issues online, and they do it with patience and kindness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

It might be a little tight because we’ve got a lot of good stuff to share with you, but ask questions anyway because we might be able to get to your question offline as well. But if there’s a lot of questions we don’t get to, I will write up some FAQs and send them to you afterwards, so don’t be shy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all. And so the question then comes into play, is it really time to go back?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Self-expression is such a powerful thing to see and having people articulate it for your cause is the holy grail.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In this blog series by Nancy Schwartz - Connect First- Your Marketing Magic Bullet (Part One) and Content, THEN Channels, Follows Connections (Part Two) – she answers the question she hears most often: what is the marketing magic bullet? Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Connections. Tell stories.

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