Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

NPR emphasizes how its “Muslims in America: A New Generation” series explores the multifaceted experiences of muslims living in a post-9/11 America, while its Hidden Brain episode “Why Now?” We especially love DLA’s report for highlighting how their digital marketing funnel of engagement drives conversions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. The staples of Oz – courage, heart, and brains – are a good start. Not to mention the Munchkins and the flying monkeys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel. We began the session by polling the audience on training experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

I realized that I enjoy presenting at sessions when the audience gets to share their knowledge with the room and each other. I really think that it is much more effective for learning than talking heads or expert brain dump. These are important technical details that make it easy to involve the audience in the conversation.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. Furthermore, the speed at which your donation page loads plays a significant role in maximizing conversion rates. Sharing your knowledge and expertise will empower your readers and inspire them to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Having negative conversations with yourself in your head, gossiping with others, or venting only drains precious energy. Set a specific time limit for being annoyed or angry.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

He and I have had terrific idea swaps and brainstorms and I can only imagine the conversations he will spark in person at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Thus, I was left with two options: one, to let the award go; or two, put my creative brain to use and launch a campaign to raise the funds. My name is Edward Harran.

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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. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

It's more like hanging out in a village square or a pub -- conversations, news, and resources come to me. So, it's like I have a left brain, orderly, linear way to scan and a right brain, wildly creative way to scan. So, this is the information, knowledge worker part of it -- but how do you keep up ? Finding ???Looking

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Try to keep the conversation a two-way street. Try to brainstorm with your team about what knowledge and skills will be needed to make the change a success and be sure to include such trainings in your timeline. What will they gain from going through this process? How will this change make their job or lives easier or more rewarding?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

This is the job description shared by Brains on Fire (how great is having a name like that?) the passion conversation, not the product conversation. - begin with the first conversation. empower people with knowledge. - The magazine was a conduit, the stage where the conversation took place.

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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. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

A few design principles that I might extract: Ground Rules to Encourage Generative Behavior: At the opening event, we were told not to sit with people we already know and to make an intentional effort to introduce ourselves to new people and have a conversation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2015

We’ve gathered the best digital minds from our success services team, who are geared 100% towards the success of our nonprofit customers, and we’ve asked them to blog, tweet and share their knowledge. Let’s start the Interactive Conversation. See you on Twitter!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. So, the folks at NMC who build objects on Hakone might be creating a big, huge, global brain that when clicked will open up web links of some of the best crowdsourcing on the future technologies and how they will impact the nonprofit sector.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I bike to work and at least once every couple of weeks it’s Lindsay having an awesome conversation with somebody that speeds up that commute for me. Really cool conversations, lots of different topics, social justice, criminal justice, I think you talked about last week. . – [Steven] Yeah. – [Lindsay] Yup.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You halt the conversation and break away from your loved ones. According to web UX-pert Tommy Walker, optimizing your microcopy doesn’t just remove challenges, it encourages a massive uptick in conversions. Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know. You begin by looking up and around for any sort of signage.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later. Together, they drove to Los Angeles Cancer Center, where their brain cancer was confirmed. Butler, our Radiologist. And it paid off.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge. One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. I tend to bumble-bee around and listen in on selected conversations, but it is important for people to hear from their peers. This helped us bring in people with knowledge who are not in the room.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

Nearly 300 of you shared your knowledge as a speakers, not to mention the teaching and sharing that happened over meals and in-between the sessions. that panel on innovation really got the brain juice flowing. NTCwinning 2: Learning Everywhere So much teaching and learning happens at the NTC and that makes us proud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation. So we have three key goals for our conversation this afternoon or morning depending on where you are. So with that, what we wanted to do is start our conversation by understanding your understanding of key trends in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. However, I know there is a lot of expertise and knowledge about social media and nonprofit use out there. The important thing is having the conversation.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. These are all free tools that do not require technical knowledge to install or use, although you have to spend some time learning how they work. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? Feedburner.

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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. I do have experience as knowledge engineer and conceptualizer, which basically means that I am used to working in fields I know nothing about. Projects design guestpost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

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. Wikis are great for collaborative document development and knowledge sharing. That's very exciting, I think.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Speakers Tania Little of Food Banks Canada, Ronan Ryan of the Canadian Red Cross and Ted Garrard of SickKids Foundation focused the conversation on fundraising, analytics, and marketing, providing key takeaways for organizations of all sizes to remain resilient.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

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. In a lot of conversations and sessions you could tell there was a focus on being strategic rather than play with new tools or figuring out how to place a ReTweet button on your website. The conference was amazing!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. How can we talk about technology in social change, while, at the same time, publishing in a format that limits the availability of this knowledge to people privileged enough to pay for it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice. Brain science and the science of learning are dynamic fields with constant advances being made. Get to know your participants, and go beyond just assessing their skill and knowledge level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2016

6th so stay tuned) and so data and nonprofits has been on my brain. around this knowledge: Individuals may often have larger social networks than the nonprofits with whom they interact and support. The Result: • 24% petition conversion rate. So when colleague, Cheryl Contee reached out an idea for this post, I could not resist!

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Along the way, we’ll explore ways you can create this content using just an iPhone and some CMS knowledge, making each idea accessible for small-shop nonprofits without a ton of marketing capacity. Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. Let’s dive in!

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NTEN

JANUARY 19, 2011

Thus far, an informal brain trust dedicated to this topic has communicated and collaborated through a private list and closed-door meetings; the NTC in March will mark the first time that we open our conversation to everyone who is interested. How can online tools help a project succeed?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I think another important component is knowledge. And having those conversations in advance before just doing that will be very helpful and also thinking about what pivots or changes the organization needs to make as part of that planning process. Steven: And the conversion rate, yeah. And so here are some planning tools.

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