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Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In his book, Parr interviews experts in the field of psychology and cognition to examine what it takes to build this “bonfire of attention,” and presents a framework about the 7 “captivation triggers” of attention. Parr spent over two years researching and interviewing people for this book.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

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Lisa is a leader on the MiHIA Thrive ACE’s initiative steering team and has worked with nonprofit organizations such as the American Cancer Society. 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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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys. I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds. Among the plethora of news stories on this, I recommend Der Spiegel’s frank interview with Berners-Lee. I particularly like the Funny for Good Award on the serious topic of testicular cancer. NPTech Contests and Awards. The Big Picture.

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

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” 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. It could be, you know, my mom had cancer that’s why I’m doing this volunteer work for the cancer organization. . And there’s lots of research.

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