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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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Nonprofit Content Creation: Back-To-The Basics of the Writing Process

Bloomerang

The brain dump. Just write whatever comes to mind. Madison Gonzalez is a National Public Speaker, Storyteller of the Year Award-Winner, Best-Selling Author of Dear Mirror, Events Manager, and Published Poet. Pre-writing. . Once you can actually start visualizing your story it will help you know which direction to go with it.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

Bloomerang

It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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The Value of Taking Mini-Breaks During the Nonprofit Work Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing you notice is the building interior design, created by award-winning Spanish architects SelgasCano. This is known as “ brain breaks ” where you simply STOP for a moment and do something to reset and renew your brain’s capacity to absorb or create that next thought. What reboots your brain?

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Year in Review.

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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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