Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. Rosen’s research can not yet determine what the impact is on our brains and lives as it too soon. Put only “tools” — and not apps designed to consume more of your attention — on your home screen.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

With the help of DataRobot, the Anacostia Riverkeeper team designed a system to predict if E. They use this information to identify loans that aren’t getting as much attention and promote them on their platform to increase their visibility. coli levels in the water are at unsafe levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

I thought I’d take this opportunity to reflect again on a decade of experience of designing and delivering interactive webinars. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer ! This requires a lot of more thinking through the design and technical practice to run smoothly.). Think Beyond Presenters.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very make up of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

These insiders are the same engineers who designed and built different features in social media platforms that created our behavior addictions. It enables the platforms to make money from advertisers who want to get that captured audiences’ attention.). Makes you wonder what they know that the average user does not?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Use a minimalist design. Create unique designs. Before you start designing new fundraising flyers, let’s lay the groundwork for what you need to know before designing your new fundraising flyer. You can use the same digital design with slight alterations to easily integrate paper fliers into your flier campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Design for Participants To Apply. It’s been great to discuss instructional design with other trainers that Deborah has brought together. Recently, Jennifer Ahern Lammer who is the program director for the Alliance of Nonprofit Management , shared several good design points developed by Peter York from TCG and how she applies it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ? The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It means removing the busy work out of their hands so they turn their attention to more mission-critical work. When they applied it to their actual work task, they realized they could design personalized gift baskets in minutes, not hours. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. Bjorn has gotten a lot of attention for his recommendations to combat climate change by focusing on improved humanitarian efforts. It made a big impression on me and many in the audience.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 9, 2015

Indeed, if one were to track all the time in a workday spent glued to our incoming messages and bowing to the attention they require, the resulting accumulation of hours would no doubt seem ridiculously exhaustive. As Mann notes, “It’s about how to reclaim your email, your attention, and your life. That ‘zero?’ That’s it.”.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2015

If you’re a website designer, social media hawk or just a tuned in, living-on-line techie, chances are you’ve heard of and subscribe to the old adage that “you never get a second chance to make a first impression.” Does it grab people’s attention immediately? And that fight should begin at that most holy of public spaces: your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” Training Design' Talking VS Listening.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

For more complex content needs, it’s recommended to work with a professional developer or designer to bring your ideas to life. Images in particular are much more attention-grabbing than text alone—they’re much more likely to be remembered, and the human brain can process them incredibly quickly (in only about 13 milliseconds ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Later that year, I had begun to notice that I needed to pay more attention to training my attention and to be more intentional about how I was sharing information.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Remember, a well-designed website that seamlessly incorporates social media acts as a powerful catalyst for advancing the impact of your nonprofit organization. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The world’s most talented designers are inspiring others, provoking change, and even saving lives for nonprofits. In my new series Designing for Good , we’ll chat with these innovators about their inspirations, challenges, and favorite tools. Pratima: I’m the Graphic Designer. My favorite tools for design?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As more and more of our lives move online, nonprofits need an optimized, well-designed website in order to stand out and engage donors—and to justify the expense of maintaining one! The truth is that most inexpensive, lower-end website options are designed to support e-commerce sites, even if they’re listed as having “nonprofit options.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Working in partnership with Common Sense Media , they will launch education campaigns about anti-addiction to tech and also make tech companies more accountable in the way they design products. I just learned about turning my phone to grayscale because the brightly colored icons give your brain a shiny reward every time we open up our phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The human body was not designed for sitting all day long. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They 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. I also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. I like how he takes a designer’s approach to using his time. How do you design your work day? Brain Fitness. Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you. Or maybe it is negative thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 Soren welcomed everyone and asked to be totally present and give full attention – which is becoming rarer and rarer at conferences. Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

Amy is the Creative Director of Shufflebrain, a game design firm that has unique expertise in identifying and exploiting behavioral human predilections to make games and game-like experiences compelling in everyday contexts. In other words, Amy is the brain behind how and why we game. Enjoy, and please share your comments with others.

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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. Program Design. With facilitator’s guidance, grantees will design and implement a small action learning project.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2014

Good design means as little over-the-top design as possible. You don’t need flashing lights to get attention, you just need something that looks good. Well, it’s true, but conTEXT is queen, and is often the case, she’s the real brains of the operation. Featured Nonprofit Web Design' 1) Keep it Simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

These skills are: self-management and attention training. ” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. What is more important is managing your attention and energy. That translates to redesigning the way you work.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 28, 2014

Good design means as little over-the-top design as possible. You don’t need flashing lights to get attention, you just need something that looks good. Well, it’s true, but conTEXT is queen, and is often the case, she’s the real brains of the operation. Featured Nonprofit Web Design' 1) Keep it Simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Being Present means paying attention to the people in front of us, focusing on the tasks at hand, and managing our emotions in the moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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. Facilitator for Learning Network: Most of my work is designing and delivering capacity building projects for nonprofits literally all over the world and here in the US.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

But the best part was the chance to work with Ellie Schindelman , director of education, who is a dynamic trainer – on the design of the program. 1. Also, freely encouraging people to play with a small objective on the table might help some learners pay attention and not check out.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2016

First impressions matter when you only have a split second to grab your visitors’ attention and get a chance to introduce your mission. Design and Messaging: Images and Content Need to Align. Did you know that the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than it does text? Storytelling: persuade with imagery.

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