Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes. The sitting brain is really disengaged. Here’s some examples.

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APRIL 25, 2014

I was invited by Nancy Schwartz to participate in this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival: The Word Behind the Work. Stay tuned to Nancy’s blog for a round-up of all nonprofit blog contributors on this month’s important topic. Then with a less crowded brain, I can sit down and start tackling tasks on my list.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These buttons serve as a gateway to the valuable content that your organization shares through its social media channels. Including social media icons on your website helps you recruit volunteers, enhance brand visibility, and disseminate content that aligns with your organization’s mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. In 2013, keep these two words at the forefront of your mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. That was the call for blog posts. I received a rich selection covering this topic – from changing mindsets, new tool sets, and lots of tips on how to manage your social media, email, and work flow. Personal Productivity in Practice.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

I was hearing a bunch of new buzzwords being thrown around on AIGA’s Eye on Design blog. One in particular that piqued my interest was Mindful Design , a new framework that supports the intentions of people using our products and services instead of pushing our own agendas—making purposeful design decisions that actually help people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2011

One of the most common challenges my juicy blogging clients and students have is that they want more clarity around what to write about on their blog. Creating a Juicy Blogging Vision Board is a fun and effective way to help you figure out why you're blogging, who you're trying to reach, and what to write about.

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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 wrote guest posts for the Harvard Business Review and the LinkedIn Corporate Blog. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Year in Review.

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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. For an additional recap of DevOps Dreamin’ 2022, visit Gearset’s post-event wrap-up blog. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

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.” Mindfulness' Share it below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

In the Nonprofit Content Marketing Benchmarks, Tools and Trends Report of 2014, nonprofit marketing and communications professionals who rank themselves as “Most Effective” at content marketing have a written content strategy. Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. Rheingold reminds us of the value of becoming a content curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. It might mean serving up a blog post or news update that’s similar to one that a user previously viewed, as NRDC did in the example below. Website personalization can take many forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers. Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences.

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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. There is the mind-body connection which boils down to taking care of yourself.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

Gamification increases audience engagement by activating the rewards systems in our brains, increasing the odds that attendees will do the things you want them to do (i.e., Getting leads from your event is not that difficult, you just have to keep that goal top of mind. . Keep lead generation top of mind. .

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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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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

In the Nonprofit Content Marketing Benchmarks, Tools and Trends Report of 2014, nonprofit marketing and communications professionals who rank themselves as “Most Effective” at content marketing have a written content strategy. Constituent Relationship Management tools), and you have the makings of a good content strategy.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. It’s a question on the minds of thousands of small businesses, startup tech companies and—yes—nonprofits. It’s no secret that telling stories to communicate your impact is a valuable strategy—stories are essentially the foundation of modern content marketing.

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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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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

To improve the personalization and relevance of your messages, you might segment your donors by: Age range Donation size and frequency Retirement status Marital status Volunteer status Engagement history Preferred communication method By creating segments like these, you can more easily send content that each group of donors is interested in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? The Benefits of Content Curation. This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. Visual Strategies for Focus In Age of Distraction. April 13, 2013 10:30-Noon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. I was a little intimidated going to the conference as I was afraid that all the content would be too much on the technical side of data for my tastes. Closing Keynote Plenary Session.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Michaela Hackner, Project Director & Content Strategist, Forum One Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I'm live blogging the conference sessions which are being conducted in Romanian. So all the disclaimers of live blogging apply and particularly here - with translations, jet lag, etc. Niche content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

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. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Here’s an example from a recent workshop I did on Content Curation at Scoop.It.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And if you’re a staff member in charge of producing content for your nonprofit, you know how time-consuming content creation can be. 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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2016

Keep in mind that not all of your visitors come to your website with a specific need. Design and Messaging: Images and Content Need to Align. You should make a habit of asking these questions about every piece of content you display: What’s the value of this content to user? Storytelling: persuade with imagery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

” Understanding this, I can adjust and customize the curriculum level and content. I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” I thought was done!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. But, I hope this blog post will get you following her. Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. It doesn’t empower you to create new content and keep up with the latest developments in your field. The content you share within the LMS is dull and unengaging.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2015

You may have noticed that @BBInteractive has taken a bit of a hiatus from social posting this past year, but we’re back and better than ever…and we think you’ll find that the content we’re planning to send your way will be useful, credible, and will help take your online marketing and fundraising to new heights! BBInteractive is back!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

I'm recognizing a pattern and connecting it to this quote from Will Richardson in my blog about how I write, " I look for Patterns." " Richardson's quote takes it out of theoretical for me and into daily practice of blogging for personal knowledge.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

Emily is a w riter and digital strategist who blogs as TheSanFranista. She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Monday rolls around, and you find yourself posting yet another press release to your nonprofit website’s blog. You scroll through your blog roll and see post after post with long text blocks and little else. Captivating blog content is a prime opportunity to engage supporters and get them more invested in your cause.

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