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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? What is Collaborative Overload? While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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A People First Approach To Nonprofit AI Adoption

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When staff are able to map out what the AI can do and what they can do, they get a view of their job role that they have never had before. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Trainer’s Notebook: Reflections on Designing and Delivering Training To Get Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. I also noticed participants using their mobile phones to capture the strategy posters and network maps. I asked a few why they were doing that — expecting a response about wanting to be able to share the map or poster in a powerpoint back at the office.

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

Candid

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I feel the learning is richer and more sticky. Peer exchanges help participants not only form good habits, but they also naturally start to collaborate and work in a networked way. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief.

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Twitter Tip for Networked Nonprofits: Follow the Few To Get To the Many

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We don’t have the time or brain cells for that. It’s about finding people who are connected to different social circles and following them. This can be useful to find potential collaborators. Mention Map helps you visualize who is interacting with you around which hashtags. It shows nodes on your network.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

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. Their Envisioning Development project helps people understand “What is Affordable Housing” in New York City.

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