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New Ideas at TED2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just returned from a spectacular week at this year’s TED conference in Vancouver, Canada. 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. Maybe there is a social enterprise in here!

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

NTEN

Chris Bernard, Editorial and Communications Director, Idealware. Tobias Eigen, Executive Director, Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa. Wiebke Herding, Managing Director, On:Subject Communications. Josh Hirsch, Director of Development and Marketing, The Weiss School. Annie Lynsen, Marketing Director, Small Act.

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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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Color Theory: Emotion + Bias

Media Cause

Media Cause Art Director Rob Shaw and Senior Designer Ansley Luce recently gave an agency-wide (virtual) talk on Color Theory: Emotion + Bias. In the US and Canada, orange is associated with Halloween. Color can play with our eyes and our minds, and can create boundaries and shapes that don’t really exist.

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Wearable Computing: Sussing Out the Frontiers of Nonprofit Technology

Tech Soup

He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. When the letter flashes that the user wants to type, the software registers the jump in brain activity and types the corresponding letter. It’s basically typing with the mind.

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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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[VIDEO] Raising More Money By Asking (And Answering) Better Questions

Bloomerang

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. and we work with dozens of clients in Canada, States on an annual basis, and we look at all sorts of other. So these things are floating through our minds all day long. . We’re going to do a little intro. . But essentially. no, no, no.

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