Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Event planners took this fact to heart in building a conference agenda that was a nice combination of roadmap previewing and a range of how-to, hands-on, and both technical and non-technical content. As soon as pipelines comes out of beta, I’ll take what I’ve set up with CI jobs and implement a full pipeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. Andrea Berry had moved onto another job by then, and so Jeanne Allen took her place. Finally, learners made a decision to incorporate the skills in the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. Your design is not just about content. Then I block out 90 minute and 75 minute modules with 15 minute breaks in between. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed. Here’s an example from a recent workshop I did on Content Curation at Scoop.It.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This is important because it allows insights into the daily work lives of like individuals, their processes, and lessons learned on the job that can positively impact the learning community as a whole. The skills of individuals you have been paired with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. Leng Sopharath has graduated, has a job, and now we’re even connected on Facebook where I learned she also got married.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Another thing this infographic does well is it immediately draws the audience in; infographics appeal to the emotional brain, so make sure you use images that show the people, animals, or places that your nonprofit is benefiting. If that doesn’t work out, try reaching out to skilled volunteers in your circle. Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you’ve probably made a few New Year’s resolutions, including being more effective at your job. In a nutshell, the advice is to spend time on the important tasks first and practice good delegation skills. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I don't expect that he will be concert pianist one day, but music study and performance offer a chance to learn some great life skills -- discipline, reflecting on on your performance and thinking about improvements, all the content skills of playing the piano and learning music. Plus, supposedly this helps his brain develop.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more} useful than ever before.|

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And her social media feeds are full of polished, highly personalized content, which is good for everyone. If you’re a nonprofit founder, then Fundwriter can help you write great donor-facing content like special appeal letters and more. is ready to help you write almost any kind of content. Fundwriter.ai The Fundwriter.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. My indicator of success for capacity building and training projects is that I’ve put myself out of a job.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day. But there ARE huge, daunting projects and articles I need to write that I feel stumped about, and other very challenging activities that require a lot of creativity and brain power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. It was a late afternoon session and I was brain dead. While I don't think he used the term digital natives and I'm wild paraphrasing: "We've been working on a job description for a new staff person. And that today's youth have those skills."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

However, do to word count constraints the content below is not in its full entirety. Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. It’s a real skill to navigate and guide the online commons and know how and when to react. Is not overly confident about her social media skills. Just a FYI.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So if you have to leave or leave early, or maybe get interrupted or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff to you later today. . I want the best for you, this is a little bit more interpersonal skills, of course. People want to look good, show up right, do a good job.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. BTW, Dave Witzel did an awesome job of tweeting the key points). Think Web 1.0

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So let’s go ahead and dive deeper into the content. 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. I think limiting beliefs can be super challenging to spot.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

So let’s go ahead and dive deeper into the content. 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. I think limiting beliefs can be super challenging to spot.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Like, let’s imagine that every product you use is a teammate, somebody who your organization is paying to do a job. Your organization is paying technology to do a job. Mary has been doing her job for 10 years in one product, and now Mary’s got to make a big change, which means she can’t do it on autopilot anymore.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. The conference was amazing! 6 Takeaways from #12NTC. 1) Email is Hot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. The idea is micro-content and micro-exercises or mini-sessions. The other idea it sparks for me is one about content. So, how do you account for that? Two important tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Adding social media and a powerful personal brand can be powerful networked leadership skill, but there is the huge challenge of making it a habit, putting it into daily practice. Working online can contribute to the state of overwhelmed and distracted – so having attention skills is also a leadership competency. Take a guess.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe get interrupted or you just want to review the awesome content you’re about to hear, don’t worry. Well, in 1990, I got a chance to work for the governor of Minnesota and I realized I didn’t want that job. Don’t worry about the content of a letter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And a lot of this content that I’m talking about today is in my book called “Cloudburst” on fundraising, you’ll find scripts and things in there you haven’t ever seen before. I mean, who doesn’t want more time and more money and more people and more skills and more expertise and more influence, right?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

My first job was in 1992. Now, there’s not a ton of content on these slides. 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.

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