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Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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How To Incorporate More Movement Into Your Nonprofit Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets , but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. Our brains make better sense of the data when we replace the legend with direct line labels.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. In the next section of the presentation, I use my blog as an example of going through a traditional ROI process. Unique Blog Readers. Communicating the results.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm live blogging from the Games for Change Conference in NYC. " In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. He starts with how Lost gave us a control study with a comparison - Gilligan's Island - to compare the complexity. Couldn't do it in a sound bite, game, or blog post.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. What is the trend?

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