sgEngage

AUGUST 19, 2022

A bit of pressure can help keep the brain alert and support you in getting focused. Practice healthy productivity. This is a form of toxic productivity. You can break this pattern by making a commitment to practice healthy productivity. Technology has been a lifeline for keeping us connected and productive.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

Whether you’re at home, at the office, in a hybrid situation, or on the go, make sure you have a dedicated place to work that supports productivity. This refreshes me and gives me the energy to stay focused and productive. Sharla Donohue , database manager, American Brain Foundation. You’ll be glad you did! Leave work at work!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging. What is personal productivity? Personal Productivity Mindsets. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You’ve likely heard that multitasking actually makes us less productive. Create a content calendar. Before you start batching content, create a calendar based on your goals for how often you want to post, when you want to post, and what you want your posts to achieve. Tip 1: Batch your content. . Tip 2: Repurpose your content.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Fundraising productivity is not just about how much you can get done to raise money. I doubt that’s what you want, so let’s look at 12 hacks that can keep you focused, save you time, and increase your fundraising productivity. 12 Fundraising Productivity Hacks 1. Time-block your week with an online calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2017

Here are two more tips for productivity routines: Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Looking Ahead Rituals. I use the technique of Bullet Journals , a hand-written system to manage your to-do lists. My bullet journal also incorporates “looking-ahead” rituals linked to my calendar.

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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? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Sound familiar?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

Build these tricks into your routine to ensure a smooth transition, maintain productivity, and create a sense of camaraderie with your coworkers. . Developing a daily route can be helpful in terms of productivity and getting your mind in the GTD (getting things done) zone. Invest in a communication tool. Develop a routine.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

You may want to get more customers, grow a brand awareness campaign, or promote a product launch. Customize everything —registration, the onboarding process, email confirmations, sessions recommendations, reminders, and calendar invites. . Attract the right audiences—those that are interested in your product or service.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. How Can I Download the Calendar ? What’s in Neon One’s 2024 Nonprofit Calendar? The Neon One 2024 nonprofit calendar highlights U.S.,

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

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. Another major product of our work with UTPB was a Messaging Platform —a document that details how the University talks about itself.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

checking and responding to email) equates to being productive. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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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. Also, do it for the sake of productivity.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Here are 4 ways AI can help museums and nonprofits deepen member engagement, increase attendance, more effectively communicate with donors, and drive revenue: Boost Your Staff’s Productivity. Development is the backbone of the nonprofit world. AI has also has the capacity to simplify other donor communications for you.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

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. Fear is hardwired into our brain, and everyone feels it whether they like to admit it or not. Wish me luck, everybody.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

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. Fear is hardwired into our brain, and everyone feels it whether they like to admit it or not. Wish me luck, everybody.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

I don’t care what products people use as long as they’re the right ones for your organizational goals and budget and skillsets and all that stuff. . I’m spending money on this product. It walks you through listing out all the product names of everything you’ve got. We are out of here. Who owns it?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Is there a product the business can sell with the profit going toward your organization? That was me.

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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. So products do exist out there. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. I mean, do I have to stress why do we need this case for consistent, clean data?

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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. Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar. Another common mistake is letting other people fill in your calendar. This infographic is an insightful profile of the way people learn in the modern workplace.

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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.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Beg your ED not to schedule staff meetings on Monday mornings; Tuesday mornings are more productive. Apparently, it takes 21 days of repetitive activity for your brain to accept new behavior as a habit. Flickr Photo of Aztec Calendar at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City uploaded by Michael McCarty. Are You It?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And we have less donors than we’ve had before but the sizes of the gifts from those donors have been increasing, which is why giving overall has still not varied from about 2% of gross domestic product for as long as they’ve been measuring this since World War 2. And this is something that legacy giving can offer.

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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. . Definitely, you can always throw an extra planning cycle in. Yay, Leslie is our winner.

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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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