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Mind-Melding Online

Connection Cafe

Author: One of my favorite science/interests stories in the news recently was a report published in late July by Science Magazine about how researchers have found that the brain of speakers and listeners become synchronized as they talk. The study called this "neural coupling" and claimed that the process is key to effective communication.

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Imagery and Authenticity

Non Profit Quarterly

And so I’m kind of a radio producer and audio nerd, and I just thought it would be amazing to bring in sounds from the natural environment to accompany her words. And I had two very specific ideas in mind when I was thinking about the soundtrack to accompany this poem. So I thought it was powerful audio to use.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Content Curation Tweet Chat Recap

Tech Soup

Audience matters, and being mindful of what your community is interested in should inform the curation process. The proliferation of social media has paved the way for newer curation tools, many of which organize and display content like an online newsletter or magazine with minor feature differences. The Human Element.

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Reflecting on NTEN Publications Accomplishments in 2011: We Launched a Digital Journal for Nonprofit Leaders!

NTEN

TIME Magazine reflected and determined this was the year of "The Protester." So, we decided to make this resource a digital publication, but more than a blog or a printable magazine. We wanted to create a layout that would marry the magazine to the digital interface. The content?

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. If your charity has to do with music appreciation, could membership to your nonprofit get a discount on purchases or a subscription to an industry magazine or music store?

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They have a full communications strategy - including print magazine, Difficult to work with journalists - because they believe nothing is happening - they call "lunatics" - it is a rural community with villages spread across mountains. Keep in mind that the big one eats the little one. It is important to use video, photos, and audio.

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