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JULY 13, 2021

The first step may be to change the way you work. If you want to be more productive and get more done without working 24/7, you have to change your habits. Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change. It’s not fun. I can do it even when my brain feels fried.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

My second guest blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the warm and wonderful Jocelyn Harmon. Jocelyn is passionate about helping nonprofits to succeed online so that they can change the world! Finally, telling the truth or living an authentic life, keeps me having fun and doing good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): This year's theme is climate change. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Change.org is hiring bloggers. Blog Action Day is October 15th.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2011

A list of some of the people, things, and events that inspired me, or added fun to my week. Excited that Issue Two of the NTEN: Change (A Quarterly Journal for Nonprofit Leaders ) is out. Taking this course really helped me clarify my business plan in a super fun, creative, and visual way. Try a Thimble List. It was awesome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Below is my 5th annual list of favorite do-good books that I read in 2009, but this year I'm calling it my Have Fun Do Good Book list. I realized that I needed to make having fun a priority. I'd love to hear what have fun do good books you enjoyed reading in 2009. Read the book. Yum, yum, yum. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2011

She's also the Founder and CEO of Raising Change. Raising Change helps organizations raise capital to advance social change agendas, and helps individuals create Generosity Plans. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

The retreat curriculum is built around the a framework called “I-WE-IT” that covers mindsets and practical skills that today’s social change leaders of all generations need as we move towards more collective approaches. It can help apply improv to our work in social change by practicing what it means to have a networked mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Before I get to the topic of using posters to make your workshops or meeting more interactive (and fun), I want to wish you a Happy International Women’s Day! This was much more fun than writing it down on a worksheet! This helps with increasing attention spans and retention as well as make the session more fun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Events December 6 (Berkeley): Seeds of Resilience: Women Farmers Striving in the Face of Climate Change hosted by Women's Earth Alliance. Andrew Weil on Time.com (hat tip to Beth Kanter for tweeting this) Mindmap of How to Focus in the Age of Distraction (hat tip to whomever's Facebook page I found this on. I can't remember!)

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

We even have fun channels like “Travel” and “Music” where employees can post non-work related content. This will do wonders for your mind and will get your brain out of relaxing mode and into work mode (even if your desk is within arm’s reach of your bed). Have fun with it! Just put on something that isn’t what you wore to bed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You could do it for any number of days (I picked 40 because I was turning 40), and during any time of transition: birthday, anniversary, moving, new job, end of a job or relationship, start of a new relationship, engagement, marriage, pregnancy, birth, a change in your parenting role, etc. Do something purely for the fun of it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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JUNE 18, 2023

Well, let me invite you to take a few important minutes to think about why you need to change this, pronto! You see, if you’re going to successfully lead your nonprofit to fulfill its mission and change lives, you must come first. Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping. Yes, you read that right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Admit It, You Are On Your Mobile Phone Too Much: Self-awareness is the first step to changing habits. You can make it fun to put down your phone using the Forest app (better than locking it in a closet. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. Here are a few tips for nonprofits. Apps like Moment can help you monitor.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

that allows readers to change years and see how their program market has increased over time. org combines a lot of the elements we love from the reports above: Fun colors to keep the reader engaged, interactiveness, and a sticky table of contents that follows the reader as they scroll down the page. The annual report from 350.org

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

Everything is changing very rapidly: industries are disappearing, methods of production and transferring wealth are being upended. And the change is accelerating so quickly that futurists now say they can’t imagine what will happen by 2050. We can’t stop the waves of change, so we’d better all learn to surf them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes. It totally changed the atmosphere of the room, and people were ready to learn. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Going offline for 24 hours or more to reboot your brain can do your spirit, mind, and body a lot good. And it is a lot of fun to do with other people – so that’s why I really like the idea of the “ National Day of Unplugging ” which begins today, March 4th at sundown and last until sundown on Saturday, March 5th.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

So, let’s get you working on a plan because that’s how you change things. Cold calling doesn’t work well in fundraising, and it’s no fun. Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain. I bet you know what this feels like! Nonprofits that struggle live this life every day of the year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. I have spent the last few months making some significant changes. Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? It is important to give enough warning for a walking meeting so people can dress accordingly — bring a coat or sweater or wear comfortable shoes. Walking meetings in high heels are not much fun. Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At the core of all that change, though, an organization needs something to keep it grounded: a solid culture. You’ll be better off fleshing out your nonprofit’s culture early in the game instead of trying to backtrack later on and change what’s already been settled. Fun should always come first.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 14, 2017

Volunteering goes beyond just being something fun to do; it decreases stress, too. When you assist others, your body releases dopamine in the brain, which has a positive effect on how you feel. If you’re looking to change things up a little, you can also try out a new job or role without having to commit to something long-term.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been having a lot of fun researching some metaphors for the future and of course, I went straight to the Jetsons. My marching orders were: pull out a crystal ball and gaze five, ten or even twenty years into the future to answer these questions: What role will social media play in the future for the nonprofit, social change sector?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The content has to be practical about the amount of investment required to implement ideas – and always include some “low hanging fruit” or actionable steps that don’t require a huge amount of organizational change or monetary investment. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2017

I wanted to share some of the hope a community of change-makers felt. Instead, my brain is misfiring. After all, action is so much more fun. Monday morning, after such wonderful experiences with people from around the world in the cossetted kooky culture of Santa Cruz, I had hoped to create a blog post from my MuseumCamp notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I made a commitment to change. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. All that sitting is not good for your health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Straight presentation kills all learning.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

To successfully compete for those brain cycles, we've found four characteristics of successful mapping projects, whether the products are fixed images or interactive applications: 1. Interactive – and Fun – Mapping: Crime is a serious thing but this site by Stamen Designs helps residents better protect themselves.

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APRIL 28, 2021

Family fun days are another creative fundraising that we see. Crossroads School had so much success with taking their 5K and Family Fun Day virtual event that they’re doing it again this year … and they’ve increased their fundraising goal by $20,000 because it went so well last time. Allow Alternative Payment Methods. Final Thoughts.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Being in Moscow in October and participating in a brain storming session for a Russian professional fundraising organization. Seeing big change happening with these same clients!! Riding my horse in my first cattle roundup. Watching multiple clients raise astonishing amounts of money through the mail this year. How about you?

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Much more fun to have the time to plan. Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. I'm honored to have been invited to join some panels. This is actually my first time officially speaking at NTC. I love it.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Your time study may show you some similar problems or work habits that you can change, too. We love it and it has completely changed the game for keeping us all organized. And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. It changes how we think.”. And, that’s an great way for change, from the bottom up. Scarcity captures the mind.

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