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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. You have my sympathies!) 2) SOS Violence Conjugale.

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Nonprofit Technology Training: Book List

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to use a combined method. They’re using software – called sensemaker – to see patterns in the data that is far too much for human brains to summarize. The above shows the methods. The beauty of this — is that the stories work well as micro content and as an opportunity for engagement?

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Six Tips for Evaluating Your Nonprofit Training Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Here’s an example from a recent workshop I did on Content Curation at Scoop.It. Documentation.

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Time Management for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals: What’s Your Best Tip?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content. Brain Fitness.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch.

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