Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” ” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving. Being active in meetings can bring our brains out of “hibernation mode.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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NTEN

JULY 26, 2012

Clear, intuitive navigation that is organized according to the brain of the people who come to your website and NOT your org chart. A 2-second statement that sums up who you are and what you do so that anyone glancing at the page gets it right away. A great email signup that entices people to provide you with their email address.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. What does the nonprofit's chart of accounts currently look like? Does the chart use account names that are understandable to all readers? Is it sufficient?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. We think of something else we need to do while doing something else. Source: Lumosity Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. see above) It is designed to be used in face-to-face workshops and conferences.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

The slides serve as the anchor, but all the details can happen outside the slides, such as on the flip chart, through your own storytelling, and interactions with the audience. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain. Third: Add charts, graphics, and animations that are relevant, and omit the gimmicky stuff.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Not only does reading exercise the brain and improve concentration, but it also helps children develop more advanced language skills and engage their imagination. While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart. I have this notification not to be a distraction but as a useful reboot of my brain to refocus my concentration – and I am avoiding potential health problems.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 10, 2010

Last night I had dinner at Cafe Gratitude with Jennifer Lee , creator of the Right Brain Business Plan and Kimberly Wilson , the creator of the eco-fashion line, TranquiliT. She also sells a Right Brain Business Plan e-book. They're also two of my three co-collaborators on the creative women entrepreneurs retreat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Ami McReynolds. Chief Equity and Programs Officer. Feeding America. Bernard Mauricia.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart. Once in the panic zone, changes become very hard to navigate as our body goes into a maximum stress mode, our emotions get elevated, and our brains shut down and become closed off to solutions and suggestions.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your dashboard is made up of different visualization options, including charts, links lists, tables, and notes that put the information you need front and center when you log in. The dashboard parts enable you to try different chart types so you can find the best fit for your role and how you like to review data.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently, TechSoup began inviting its followers to "donate your brain" by appending "TechSoupDYB," to forums questions sent out via Twitter. Collaboration Tools Chart for Libraries. Following the guest expert presentations, the audience asked questions, which can be found on the full recording.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

But being a nonprofit data is not just about being an Excel ninja, it is also about visualizing data and being a chart master. When Ann told me she has lots of secrets and time saving tips for charts and offered to write this guest post, I was thrilled. Charts can be one of your strongest communication tools. Secret #10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I still feel like I haven't totally wrapped my brain around all this. And, it will make your brain hurt! See her chart specifically. I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Tell Your Story, Literally! Sometimes the best way to explain your data is to do just that - explain it.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Draw it out into an organizational chart so you can see who will report to who. It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. Think three to five years into the future. two counselors to meet the needs of participants in your program. 20% a year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. I particularly like the “Heat Chart” where you color code priority tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. I also pointed out that it uses a different part of your brain and there is a need to shift mindsets to get other types of work done. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

I'm envisioning a two-column chart with the tool on one side and some suggestions about good to do xyz and some examples of how blog publishing capabilities. It's Friday, gotta dash out the door to pick up the kids from school and don't have the brains to think it through.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Tell Your Story, Literally! Sometimes the best way to explain your data is to do just that - explain it.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky’s claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus’ - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. Tell Your Story, Literally! Sometimes the best way to explain your data is to do just that - explain it.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. I charted them across the year and pledged to try one each month, inviting others to do them with me and blog about the experience. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 Thus began a year of play.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

t able to access the PowerPoint during the presentation and had to do the presentation old school style via flip charts. Time to write AND the inconvenience of waking up in the middle of the night (almost EVERY night) with fully formed posts in my brain. For some reason we weren???t s hard to get up that early and write when you???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Unique Blog Readers. Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

This frees up your to-do list—and brain space—to focus on important tasks that improve your grantee experience. If your organization is working to increase first-time applications, for example, you can keep that chart front-and-center on your dashboard so you know your progress at any given time.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 20, 2016

. • As with video, if you haven’t already put an infographic component into your website design, now’s the time: as more and more organizations utilize easy-to-read charts and graphs, visitors expect to see them across all non-profit sites.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Entertain the idea of an exhibit based on Gantt charts and spreadsheets, and your head might just explode. Whether you are modeling the brain , tracking the incidence of emotional statements on the Web, or conveying a chair as a sound wave , the resultant art is a deep reflection, not just an interpretation, of the data involved.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So there are three charts that I recommend you create on a regular basis, and now is a really good time to create these charts and then notice what the names are that make up those charts. So one of the charts is individual giving by category.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. Use it to record ideas, brainstorm, and convert data into presentations, PDF, charts, and other formats. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. WiseMapping.

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