Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. The big takeaway for all in the room is that we are not just a bunch of datanerds, but a community that can continue to learn from one another collectively.

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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. Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content. Brain Fitness. Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In our work we learned that social issues are tied to the intersection of community, family, friends and where people live, work, and play. Initially, we act in small ways to satisfy the brain’s desire to take the path of least resistance. The brain is an economic model that is always trying to gain the largest return on investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

The specific indicators of program success are below and were identified with input from participants: 100% of participants will develop an integrated and measurable social media strategy that furthers their communications work in population and reproductive health that aligned with institutional goals. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They 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. I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” He started off with a great story about what a tribe in South Africa does when someone in their community does something bad. Most importantly, wisdom brings trust, community, stewardship, and creativity. He also warned that wisdom is not self-improvement, but more a sense of inner strength and knowing what matters.

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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. Reading boasts a wide range of benefits for both children and adults alike. Engage corporate sponsors.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in. Interactive. I like to refer to this as the Sesame Street Rule.

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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. Breathe, exercise, and treat yourself. This is community building. Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. Don’t work through lunch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

and Communities of Practice Online Conference. The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. Central to the concept is that one person is responsible for curating information for others in the group or community."

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. This book explores how our brains are, truly, hardwired for good or as, Science magazine put it, “the biology and neuroscience of human prosociality.” And the alternative is this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. If you had the first group work on the simulation exercise, they'd be uncomfortable. We only had an hour for the exercise which is tight, so I simplified and had all the groups do the same simulation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

His reflections remind me that I wish I could have immerse myself in the entire content (which was enormous) for the entire month, but those exercises and discussion that I managed to swoop into provided me with significant learning. Think of at least three people who have influenced you the most in your work in communities of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Gopi Kallayil from Google advised the audience that if you do nothing else every day, do these three things: 1) Sleep 2) Meditate 3) Exercise. One of the interesting questions came from the audience about how they create happiness in their community. Playfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As a change-maker dedicated to the social good space, as an ambitious, career-driven woman, as a mom and a wife totally and completely devoted to the well-being of my family, as a human being deeply rooted in and committed to contributing to my community and humanity–I’m exhausted. Exercise and meditation aremy game changers.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s complete an exercise to help you get your creativity flowing. We need your help to save more stray dogs in the community. Stray dogs in your community need help right now. Weave storytelling through different aspects of your website, such as your blog, donation page, about page, and community testimonials page.

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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. A good exercise is to try to convert your intangibles. If subjected myself to an tracking my time exercise in the beginning, I wouldn't be blogging today. (tags: nonprofits roi ). You may need to think of terms of time or dollars saved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. What are tips, exercises, or advice you give them to deal with that fear? You've created two very interesting products, The Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit and The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. How does it work?

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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. Instead of trying to get EVERYONE in a community to give, target people who are most likely to care about your nonprofit’s mission. This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And so maybe trying to reduce that so nonprofits can do the work that they are really good at and really being assets in the community is critical. And if you’re not familiar with those, you can take a look at that within your community. But it is a great planning tool and exercise. I’ve seen that quite a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

After we read through some of the responses and made some observations, we moved onto the next exercise. I asked each of the board members to take a few minutes and share their one burning question that pertains to the Foundation’s marketing and communications with the person sitting next to them. Vision for improving the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

That was the reason for the eating chocolate exercise I did in PoST class on Monday. The exercise is intended to help you slow down, be in the moment, and shift you into a reflective mindset or at least feel what it is like. The exercise is simple - take five minutes to eat a hershey's kiss and notice everything about the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

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. I noticed that you recently posted on the nptech community site , how did you discover it? I don't know for sure.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Or is it somebody that you see them as a kind, caring, community-minded person who might be able to make a difference? . So if you care about the donors and their feelings and their contribution to the community, that makes a difference. . Who else in the community should we talk to? . Is it just an ATM machine?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We’re not just solving the world’s most complex problems, we’re solving some of the most important problems that on the whole, the large human community of this world would like to see these problems solved too. I might have two execution goals related to this one outcome, it might be change my diet and exercise daily. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff. Absolutely.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. 2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Because it’s not just about the issue, because let’s say you’re helping with hunger relief, well, there might be 10 organizations in your community helping with hunger relief. But that’s why you have the worksheet to give you a little exercise to do on page one question number four is going to help build your brand.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Maybe it’s because I spent so many of the dark hours that followed cut-off from my community – so disconnected from friends & family, on a business trip that mutated into a frantic 2-day race home through the desert Southwest – that I started to consider what it would have been like if we’d had Twitter on 9/11.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

Reading the stories, I flashed back to the writing exercises I used to give students in poetry classes. But testing out different forms is useful as an early design exercise even if the products never make it to primetime. Write them as positive and negative reviews on a community website. That's a question of personal taste.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

Things opening up and also I feel like we really are just getting a handle now on what COVID has done to the communities that we serve. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. In your life you say, “I want to exercise.”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Then, when you look through resumes, your unconscious brain might move you to a certain candidate. You’re looking at a Harvard apple vs a Community College apple, say. Later, as I was sending my findings to a colleague, I told them the exercise took me 1 hour. It’s hard then to say you’ve looked at apples and apples.

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