sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

A bit of pressure can help keep the brain alert and support you in getting focused. Practice healthy productivity. You can break this pattern by making a commitment to practice healthy productivity. One way to put this into practice is to proactively build breaks into your schedule. This is a form of toxic productivity.

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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? A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Content strategy is an aggregate of a few best practices—equal parts planning, delivery, and consistency. One that I like was created by Kristina Halvorson and her team at Brain Traffic , called the Content Strategy Quad: A simple way to look at this is by dividing the top and bottom quadrants.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Organizing the Calendar. I tend to write my processes out on a piece of paper or occasionally log important or reoccurring tasks in a Google Calendar entry. Our brains, while capable of accomplishing a lot of tasks at the same time, are not too great with knowledge retention in scenarios where multi-tasking is taking place.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Time-block your week with an online calendar. Using an online calendar like Google Calendar can be great for planning out your time because you can see your day, week, or month at a glance, and access it from either your desktop or mobile device. The real benefit of using a calendar is block scheduling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Personal Productivity in Practice. What is personal productivity? Self-Care, Avoiding Burnout.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. In this article, we’ll walk through 21 end-of-year giving best practices to help your nonprofit end the fundraising year with a bang: Start planning your campaign early. As you review these best practices, remember to keep your donors’ needs top of mind.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

When you have the right systems in place to support your nonprofit, and you personally practice effective work habits , you’re setting yourself up for a shorter learning curve and a smoother path later on. Schedule Keep a work calendar and update it so it’s always current. Start now, using an accounting software.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. You could say, “That project sounds great, but my calendar is full and I don’t have the ability to commit to that right now.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

In other words, when I look at my calendar, do I actually have enough hours in a week to accomplish the priorities I’ve identified or am I’m trying to do too much at one time? Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. Second, I assess how I’m investing my time.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So this is a super practical presentation. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. So there is a tremendous opportunity for us right now.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly! Chew ‘em up. Spit ‘em out!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This is a rant and warning against shiny object syndrome and a remember that technology does not drive practice. That technology, in and of itself, can solve the ills of the world. Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. It was funny at the time).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then we’ll hone in on some best practices that you and your teams can apply specifically to leverage your board members in your fundraising activity in a way that excites and energizes them. And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So this is a super practical presentation. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. So there is a tremendous opportunity for us right now.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. But mark the rest of your days on your calendar at the beginning of the year, just like you mark your campaigns and events. Winding down can be hard when you’re out of practice.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Creating a communications calendar with a minimum of 12 touches per year. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly! Chew ‘em up. Spit ‘em out!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Email Communications Honorable Mention: NRDC - National Resource Defense Council Winner: KQED Came up with sassy email newsletter and went against broadcasting best practices. Integrated Fundraising Campaign or Program Honorable Mention: Human Rights Campaign Winner: Defenders of Wildlife Each year, Defenders sends out Calendars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. The last chapter offers some practical advice, including the "Be Your Own Filter" and "Give A Hoot Don't Data Pollute."

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Keep the following questions in mind as you consult your calendar: Are we planning far enough in advance? It might also be a good idea to do a practice run-through with your technology and any entertainment. Is this an annual event?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. Know what the best practices are. I mean, do I have to stress why do we need this case for consistent, clean data?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. ” And then start bucketing that time on your calendar. Mallory: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. And then start bucketing that time on your calendar. My brain just doesn’t work that way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. The article provides a number of really good practice tips. Here’s how I do it: Practice Reflection Daily : I don’t immediately jump online and into email first thing in the morning. Artist Tiles.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . It is as hard and as easy as putting the meetings on your calendar and showing up for them. . These are just so-called best practices or customs. . Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Any time we make a change, current state, if we look at that blue line current state, and then we look at the red dotty line above it, if you switch technology, if you change a process or a business practice, we think the payoff is immediate, right? Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Life is going to be grand.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. ” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. Are you interacting with donors daily, weekly, monthly, never?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Take a guess.

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