Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Clear goals and a detailed timeline will give the necessary direction and structure to your advocacy campaign. In general, use this structure for best results: Map out a story arc. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side. About the Author. Erin Mulligan Nelson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. As we face an even darker winter due to the pandemic, we need to keep improving our resilience, the ability to adapt well in spite of significant stressors.

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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

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. About the Author. As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too. Cristina Jones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Create Device Free Zones.

Collaboration 120

Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. An effective mentoring program demands structure. Measure progress.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions.

Instructional Design 111

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Is our brain changing as a result? I will let Dr. Maher, the author of the book Is It ADHD or My iPhone , shed some light on the topic. By training the brain to shift activities rapidly for multitasking, we may be decreasing the brain’s ability to focus. Is this ADD? Is this permanent or reversible? What can we do?

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Technology Brain Create Exercise 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.” Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session.

Facilitation 106

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 1, 2010

Author: Joey Martin. In the June edition of Wired magazine there is a fascinating article about how the web is changing the structure of our brains. The article was adapted from the book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

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. These metrics also allow you to measure change and progress over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Target the right level of authority: This means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.” The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. So, you have to design for that. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

The key note was delivered by Steven Johnson, author of "Everything Bad for You is Good." " In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. " Doesn't get better than that for an author. Lost is one of the first shows that has been structured as a game.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And what she offers is structure and strategy to how to become a better fundraiser through doing some of your own self-reflection. . Well, it’s leading those board meetings with that same structure. ” Brains start aligning, “Oh, we’re connected.” She is beautiful and brilliant inside and out.

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People Community Video Podcast 79

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. You've created two very interesting products, The Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit and The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. You've also written and created the Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. How does it work?

Brain 41

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

How do you structure your database? Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. But campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I One problem with NP's is that they took their governance structures from for-profit corporations and these are obviously not optimal for the type of work they do.

Work 87

Work Organization Ning Doc 87

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. So there’s perception, behavior, and structure.

Product 71

Product Video Donor Structure 71

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? Author information Kristen Hay Marketing Manager at Bloomerang Kristen Hay is the Marketing Manager at Bloomerang. ” Haley, absolutely. Absolutely.

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Management Work Video Slides 91

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Those tend to be a lot more structured and there has to be more concept refinement before submitting an application and cultivation with the program officer. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. So even if the funds come from the national level, they’re distributed locally. So check that out.

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