Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Rituals To Build Mindfulness. Share in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. Leave a comment if you do training internationally and want to do a “trade craft” informal session. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. The Benefits of Content Curation.

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JULY 10, 2012

Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain. Please comment and tell us. But then when we are asked to create a presentation, we fall into the same trap.

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APRIL 27, 2021

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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2011

How to Create a Juicy Blogging Vision Board Materials: Magazines you don't mind cutting up, a manila file folder, a glue stick, scissors, a timer, Mod Podge (optional), and a paper grocery bag. Keep your answers in mind as you look through your magazines. If you post it on your blog, or Flickr, please share your link in the comments.

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JULY 20, 2013

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Them's fightin' words to a lot of commenters. He will seriously blow your mind. Regular readers of this space will know there's a growing consensus that technology is physically changing the ways our brains work. HBR's Dan Pallotta thinks it's unethical that your organization doesn't spend more time and money on fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I'm finding new links and posts either through twitter, comments on my blog post, or through people who have linked to me. So, it's like I have a left brain, orderly, linear way to scan and a right brain, wildly creative way to scan. Visiting personal or professional sites with no specific goal in mind other than to ???stay

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . I’m going to pause here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

A number folks offers some insights in the comments or on Twitter, including Amanda. I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. social media twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. They also prepared them about how to respond to comments. Remember Alice in Wonderland - watching yourself in a mirror which you write and you receive comments. You don't just write, you link to others, make comments on other blogs, and respond to comments. It is two-way.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later. Test them out to see what works.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

With this in mind, try and show that other people are supporting and/or donating to your cause. GoFundMe is a platform that does this incredibly well, including a feed of recent donations with donor names and comments. Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2013

You’ve mentored some people new to the industry along the way and enjoy your status as a community brain trust on all-things-planned giving. In the back of your mind you’re sure that you’re supposed to out of the office, posting messages and engaging your loyalist constituents no matter what their age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

In the comments, I prodded her to share some of her experience about using tagging as a tool to share resources in a community of practice context. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. e-collaboration??? group" about tagging and social-bookmarking. What central tag to use to get an item noticed?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any questions or comments along the way. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. We love to hear from you.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

When analyzing your email data, be sure to keep the ask in mind. . Keep shivering, but also keep reading, because I’m going to show you two simple math tricks that will help you add a little left-brain to your portfolio of expertise. . Perhaps in the comments you can suggest better names.) It was just an easier ask.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

Whether it's an online game like Signtific , a tutoring center like 826 Valencia , or an educational event like Living Library , my engineer brain wants to figure out what makes these innovative projects tick and then tinker with those design lessons in my own work. There's a whole section of this blog called Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. His tweets reveal him as a renaissance thinker, not just a narrow-minded tech geek. . Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". More information here.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any questions or comments along the way. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. We love to hear from you.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here. Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Donors commented on our thought­ful appeal letters and inspiring support material. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Newspaper columnists and talk show hosts called for interviews after reading our poignant op-ed pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. Anyway, he's been well trained, and says in his mind, over and over, "Fear is the mind-killer.". .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? Look at the comments. Absolutely. I love that.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” We feel really inauthentic. Think about it.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” So I think I’m like a maybe with that comment. Think about it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. Please feel free to join the dialogue, either in comments, or on your own blog. I am the one who, with the interests of the sustainability of my own small organization in mind, refused.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Fear is never a good reason to put things (like ratings or visitor comments) on the website only. In my mind, the distinction of web-only is useful when: the content provides a personal, repeatable experience. Experimentation is better, IF there's an expectation that positive web experiments might bleed onto the floor.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So don’t be shy, send in those questions and comments throughout the hour because we’re going to try to get to as many of those before the 2:00 Eastern hour. . I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? It’s hard.”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Keep in mind that you can (and should) revise your plan in accordance with the other steps listed below. Keep in mind that you can also leverage social media tools for your fundraising campaigns. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Social media.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. Nonprofits are always mindful of their budgets, so using metrics for your content is critical to demonstrating meaningful ROI.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. And no matter how awesome you think your nonprofit’s mission is, if your cause isn’t one they like, you’re not going to change their mind. Start writing words and phrases that come to mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I As a Leader - become deeply aware of - and truly mindful about - the scope and reach of interconnected markets and flows of information. So, I'm giving it away.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. So, Claire, I will pipe down here. Here we go.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Blog | design mind – "Openness is the mega-trend for innovation in the 21st century, and it remains the topic du jour for businesses of all kinds. ." " The internet: is it changing the way we think?

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