Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. My Three Themes: Resilience: This theme relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. (In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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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. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Learning Styles. With new media comes challenges. Adaptability.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

They’re basically training me with their subject line to stop opening their emails. You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain. So, let’s make sure that doesn’t happen to YOU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Program Design. Participants Own Their Learning.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Three Ways to Think About Content. Expert: This is content and information that is delivered by listening and questioning a subject matter expert. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Why does this matter to those of us in the Training, Learning, and Development field? Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them. In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

She produces tech entrepreneurship content for the organization Women 2.0 and teaches yoga in San Francisco. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training. The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski. I asked "how can I help?"

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MAY 25, 2021

Whether it’s Continuing Medical Education (CME), Continuing Nursing Education, or training for other healthcare specialties, the education must align with specific accreditation regulations. It could even lead to dangerous situations if members are completing courses teaching outdated practices that are no longer widely accepted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

These skills are: self-management and attention training. That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. ” To tell you the truth, I no longer think in terms of “getting it all done.”

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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. I think this style is a better match for social media as well as social media training. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. And her social media feeds are full of polished, highly personalized content, which is good for everyone. uses artificial intelligence that has been trained on billions of real-world examples. Fundwriter.ai

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The more you train yourself to listen for content, emotion, and action, the less you'll have room to take in external distractions. Question: Why is it so important to master only one skill you teach at a time? Wetzler : The human brain has a limit to the amount of cognitive load it can handle at a time. Zip your lip.

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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

JUNE 17, 2015

She agreed to write up her process and experience – and especially grateful as I’m in London now teaching the same topic. Training Board Members As Brand Champions on Social and Beyond. I get to use my brain to think and figure things out. So, expect more from me soon. Guest Post By: Rachel Calderon.

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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. She’s got a really cool training program. And I’ve sat in on her trainings. She’s done tons of training.

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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. She’s got a really cool training program. And I’ve sat in on her trainings. She’s done tons of training. She’s trained a ton of people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I am 28 years old and am just beginning to work in consulting and training in the use of new web tools for research and communication. 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.

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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. ” So there should be one person who is trained and who is the person who does all of the donor data. So make sure that you actually train them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The first time you facilitate a training, you start developing your own personal list of tips for great facilitation. We train providers and trainers across the nation on a range of evidence-based programs, especially in the sexual and reproductive health arena. Learn why you need to get participants moving around during a training.

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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. And in 2001, I joined a training company and worked for them for five years and then set out on my own in 2007. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So if you have to leave early, or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, don’t worry, we will get all that in your hands later on today. We love doing these webinars, we got great guest speakers, great content, today is no exception, by any means. . That’s what Bloomerang is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

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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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

MAY 28, 2021

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. The slides are guides. What do they want?

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