Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

She is also a Penn student and a current Top 15 National Finalist for the Washington Campus Compact's Students in Service Awards , as well as the winner of a DoSomething Grant. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Bookshare is helping Kevin— who had suffered a brain injury—to keep up with his school work. With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities.

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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

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. Learn: Learning is not just for kids or students. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

The NTEN Editorial Committee is a group of committed professionals that meet monthly to discuss content and strategy for the NTEN: Change Journal , our quarterly digital publication for nonprofit leaders. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Conor Barnes, Advisor, Investor, & Student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This means that you can’t be in the front of the room delivering content all the time! Most likely, there will be some content delivery you share during your workshop. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Allowing an invaluable insight in developing content that may not just be convenient via technology, but possibly even more effective if properly educated. People learn in different ways, and in an eLearning, the human element is removed causing the need for content to be taught in a variety ways in one sitting. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. The first 90-minute webinar to introduced the content. If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars.

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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. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed. Use Learning Theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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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. at the Writing Salon, Berkeley, CA August 5: The Write Brain - Essential Blog Content Development Workshop at BlogHer '11, San Diego, CA Share.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As the founder of the largest library for people who are blind or who have other significant disabilities that prevent them from reading printed texts (such as dyslexia or brain injuries), I think this is a terrible idea. That would pretty much defeat the purpose of having a library. Bookshare was created under the Section 121 U.S.

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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. There is no excessive text, and the text that is present is short, concise, and well-written. Ask for help.

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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 Fundwriter.ai

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 24, 2016

Whether it’s as simple as pranking your coworker, walking to lunch as an office or live-Snapping a fundraiser event, Snapchat is only effective if you keep it on the brain and get creative with it. During dead week and finals week, we let students hang out and use our space to study. ” Guess what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Niche content. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Described the features and content. Collective Tagging: Tagging is a keyword that describes the content. User generated content - Web 2.0 Part of the content is created by ngo users and the other part is managed by an editors. Personality is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Go read it. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience. Created by the Vienna-based studio, Ovos, Ludwig is a physics game about renewable energy sources. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I hate it when I can't instantly pull facts out of my brain. I put on a wiki for easy maintenance and for whoever stumbles upon it and might find it useful as I believe in open content and open thinking. I would have my students look at web sites based on design criteria and discuss the web sites. I find myself stumbling.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. And there are three reasons I’d really value your participation: I want to suck your brain and revel in your inventiveness.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. This is because our brains process them almost instantly. Understand the professional backgrounds of your donors to better align your messaging.

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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. So I want to share an example I love sharing with my students. .

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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. So I want to share an example I love sharing with my students. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, maybe share it with a colleague, don’t worry, you will be able to do that. I like to laugh, so I’m going to move quickly through the content. All of my students did too, all of my clients did too.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

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. Initially designed to help students learn visually and creatively, Popplet is great for brainstorming and organizing ideas efficiently.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, maybe share it with a colleague, don’t worry, you will be able to do that. I like to laugh, so I’m going to move quickly through the content. All of my students did too, all of my clients did too.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. After that, the wiki grew into a channel to accompany the workshops, supporting Nina Simon’s statement : "Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. I asked the students what else does that? After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. The class blog features posts by the students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

I get to use my brain to think and figure things out. Student-led grant committee program with University of Central Florida. I let them know simply liking posts on Facebook is helpful because it expands the reach of our content to their audiences. That seems like a silly thing to say, but I get to take creative license often.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ve collaborated on some content. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. How many of you feel like that, or cringe when your executive director goes, “Let’s just ask some of these high school students that come to after school?”

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Content is taking the Marketing industry by storm, and nonprofit marketers are no exception.

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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. Student, thank-yous, yes, oh, my god. But having students deliver cookies, that was mentioned too. And it will be helpful.

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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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