Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Author: One of my favorite science/interests stories in the news recently was a report published in late July by Science Magazine about how researchers have found that the brain of speakers and listeners become synchronized as they talk. Over the last several years some of my most engaging conversations have been online.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

You can communicate through Trello, which reduces email correspondence and keeps conversations in a central place. For example, if you adopt Teams for its chat feature,, remind your colleague who sends you an email and move the conversation over to Teams. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Check out bullet journaling.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This year, I was honored to be speaking on a conversational panel about Wisdom and Social Good, Giving, and Technology along with Laura Arrillaga-Adreeessen, author of Giving 2.0 Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

I prefer these tools when I’m capturing a discussion from a meeting that focused on a designing a program or a reflective conversation. If the notes need to be in a digital format, the process of transcribing them gives me added reflection and thought time to digest the ideas.

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APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Write that.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. This allows us to clear our minds and focus on the present moment. GTD is a five-step process: Capture : Capture everything that comes into your mind, whether it’s a task, an idea, or a thought. So why wait?

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

A disability is any condition of the mind or body that makes it more difficult for someone to partake in certain activities and may impair their ability to participate easily in normal daily pursuits. There is so much diversity in the world, but one type of diversity that often gets overlooked or forgotten is disability diversity.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The key to strong donor relationships is creating a conversation between your organization and your donors. All of your messages and marketing materials should be written using around a sixth-grade reading level and a friendly, conversational tone. Keep donors engaged by reminding them of this valuable community they’re a part of.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . Mental Health Awareness Resources for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors. Furthermore, the speed at which your donation page loads plays a significant role in maximizing conversion rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Having negative conversations with yourself in your head, gossiping with others, or venting only drains precious energy. Go have a direct conversation, make a request, or make the conscious choice that you won’t let it steal your energy or productivity. Set a specific time limit for being annoyed or angry. Work to your energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

This highly interactive and engaging community conversation will look at how nonprofits can create a culture of experimenting, testing, learning and correcting. Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. Also, please try not to make them boring. Adaptability.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Try to keep the conversation a two-way street. Once in the panic zone, changes become very hard to navigate as our body goes into a maximum stress mode, our emotions get elevated, and our brains shut down and become closed off to solutions and suggestions. Keep in mind that even small changes can add up and lead to change fatigue.

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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

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Amy suggests that it is mostly a matter of a mind shift, from producing a final polished to sharing a work in progress. I love the phrase "back up brain." " The clincher to all this is to use your blog as your backup brain. ??? Instead of keeping your thoughts, notes, and conversations to yourself, post them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

“Always Be Cropping&# – a very practical point for being enchanting with photos that stand out in social streams – and to mindful of good composition – which requires cropping. Here’s some other suggestions and tips for enchanting photos. Charles Porch, Facebook. Here’s more. Susan Tenby, TechSoup.

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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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NonProfit Hub

MAY 20, 2015

when he lost his wife to a brain tumor. He quickly changed gears and founded the Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor Foundation and now serves as the president and CEO of the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement (DANA). Yet sometimes, positions are simply delegated to whoever is passionate for the cause.

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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. Visiting personal or professional sites with no specific goal in mind other than to ???stay Browsing ???Visiting

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

The change is needed in the whole fraternity where in the sensitivity and readiness of lawyers to take up pro bono cases is encouraged by teaching them how effective social media tools can be for conversing with other like minded professionals etc. Megha Bhagat. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India.

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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. With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Things like conversations with coworkers that last longer than they need to, writing the same email over and over instead of using a template, and meetings that don’t start or end on time can steal time from your day that you can never get back. Keeping a task list can save you time and clear your mind. Find and plug the time leaks.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing. Or more accurately, learning that we can tell our own story. We can rewrite it as a beautiful adventure anytime we like.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2014

I’ve been doing a “soft launch” of this co-working space concept with some major donors in our city, and here (in a nutshell) is how a typical conversation might go. Can I pick your brain?”. Here are five key thoughts in the forefront of my mind as I engage with these potential supporters. Potential donor: “Awesome!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. It reminds of the “Mindful Conversation” exercise described in “ Search Inside Yourself ,” yet another way to practice mindfulness but not just within yourself, but with others. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding. Flexibility. Co-Creating.

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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. BBInteractive is back! See you on Twitter!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

What happens when a conversation with Stephen Colbert goes viral? How to Be a Mindful Techie Speaker Speaker: Meico Whitlock, Senior Manager, Communications, NASTAD. Take a deep breath and come into the present moment to learn how to become a mindful techie. Let’s revisit them publicly. And then, let’s never speak of them again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

The Brains On Fire blog tell us why it is so important to be prepared before you launch an online community effort: Online communities are popping up everywhere. The first thing to keep in mind? Ask them, "Would you rather have someone talk at you, or have a conversation?" And I really can???t Otherwise you???ll

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

With that in mind, we asked you for your advice for monitoring online feedback as part of this month's Net2 Think Tank: Topic: What are your best practices for effectively monitoring online feedback about your organization, cause, or enterprise. position simply observing and finding the conversations. in those conversations."

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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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. Join the conversation below! Ask for help. Show your purpose.

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