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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Your mind and body need these boundaries. Don’t take your phone on your walk or put it into airplane mode if you are using the camera. Keep moving and practice mindfulness.

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Overcoming Screen Fatigue: A Nonprofit Hub Guide

NonProfit Hub

Video calls are a lot more straining on the brain than any face-to-face conversation. Our minds are together when our bodies feel we’re not. Give yourself brain breaks. In between meetings, you could chat with coworkers casually, and your brain would have a break during your commute. Why are video calls so draining?

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained.

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Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap

Gyrus

When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. In educational youth broadcasting series, this can be achieved through a “call” process.

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How to Improve Your Website’s Emotional Appeals: 5 Tips

Pamela Grow

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Enhance your emotional appeals by including photos of people with these characteristics: People looking into the camera. Tell compelling stories. Choose emotional words.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . The next best way to actually create that touchpoint of engagement is by listening and opening your mind. . – [Steven] Yeah.

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[VIDEO] How to Overcome Fear, Intimidation and Imposter Syndrome to Raise More Money

Bloomerang

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. Oh, thank you.

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