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. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” This font lets you take simple strings of numbers and transform them into charts. I thought was done!

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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

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Sometimes they are huge, like switching CRM systems or restructuring your organizational chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Madeleine is co-founder and principal of Arbor Consulting Partners , a research and consulting group led by senior social scientists. Do you know what the group's value proposition is? Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We talked a lot about network practices. Do you know what the individual value propositions are?

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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. Let that sink in a moment.

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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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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. Here's how.

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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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Byte Technology

JUNE 20, 2016

Consider this: when someone—a potential donor, volunteer or other kind of supporter—first learns of your group, what is the first-step they’ll most likely take in determining your legitimacy and reputation? So what can you do to be sure your group is on the leading edge of website design?

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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. And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. Here you'll use sticky notes instead of traditional nodes and branches and group them on the screen to represent connections between ideas. Use it to record ideas, brainstorm, and convert data into presentations, PDF, charts, and other formats.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So my longest time group of people that I’ve worked with is called Volunteers of America North Louisiana. So one of the charts is individual giving by category. And, Steven, you weigh in if you create these charts for folks right in Bloomerang.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. But only 70% of that group is. or actually 70% of that group is dissatisfied with the board’s racial composition. It’s how my brain works. But it’s really powerful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

As everyone finished, they brought them up to the flip chart. It was a perfect opportunity for the group to learn more about each other and to see each other’s similarities and differences. Then one person from each of the pairs shared with the group. I get to use my brain to think and figure things out.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Here’s a simple little chart where all you do is you just look at the next 10 years and you project what your revenue is going to be, all things being equal, based on how you’re fundraising and how your sales, etc., It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. So I’m going to encourage you, unless you’re like a mighty team of one, and that might be true, form some loose affiliated cross-functional technology governance group. Some people call it like tech security group, right? Workgroup, action group.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . And you have to be meeting as a group if you’re going to be solving problems and working together. Probably as a smaller nonprofit, I have a group program called Thrive.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Perhaps this is obvious to say to the group, but more is better, more often is better, deeper engagement is better. ” 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. So I’m appreciating all your answers in chat.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings. It may be a mom group affiliation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. So let’s just look at this chart for a second.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

But this age group is the second most likely to fundraise and volunteer for your organization, and the most likely to spread the word. So, it’s time to get in front of this group. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Tell stories. Evoke emotion. Ready for this?

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