Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Beyond the immediate future, we will most certainly see AR gear and physical triggers take up less space over time—tablets to phones, glasses to contact lenses, and at some point, maybe the only tool we’ll need is our brain. Paul will be joined by Nik Honeysett, Guru board member and keynote speaker for bbcon’s Arts and Cultural track!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

Some workplace cultures in nonprofits encourage this approach. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate. Is this part of your nonprofit’s work culture? That translates to redesigning the way you work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Michaela Monahan, Big Duck blog, discusses the technique of tracking your time.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. This year they are on-track to break the 70% retention barrier and have already bested their stretch fundraising goal for the year. Building a culture of philanthropy throughout your organization. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Success means using metrics to learn how to improve practice effectively, both to identify obstacles and track progress. The action learning project will be designed to help grantees build a habit of measurement, reflection, and organizational learning.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

When other cities replicate the model, we’ll be able to track the origin and migration of these ideas from city to city through individuals. Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

I’ve managed campaigns ranging from about $5 million to over a billion dollars in health care, education, arts and culture, and advocacy sectors. And it represents the highest year of giving on record since the Giving Institute began tracking this data more than 60 years ago. It builds a culture of trust and respect.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. This year they are on-track to break the 70% retention barrier and have already bested their stretch fundraising goal for the year. Building a culture of philanthropy throughout your organization. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain. The first half hour was spent in introduction and teasing out burning questions.

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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. It may require internal culture change – proactive listening and experiments. While both are important to track and identify, your executive director is probably most interested in the tangible benefits. Track Your Time. Tangible Benefits.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Include "embedded assessment" (tracking hits, how long a player is on the site, etc). This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. Present a coherent gameplay, and think how to take advantage of existing genres and mechanics. JURY FEEDBACK. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

(Story is here ) GreenMedia Toolshed founder Marty Kearns says that listening is something that is done on an individual staff level, but for it to become an organizational process leaders need to build a culture of listening. Dan Schawbel, Five Free Tools To Track Your Reputation. Google Alerts. Technorati. Social Mention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

It was a late afternoon session and I was brain dead. Given how bad email is as a tool for actually tracking histories of communication, and how much better other services are, why not declare email bankrupcy today? although talking about in the context of for-profit sector really resonated: 6) Embracing the Cultural shifts.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Track key metrics To determine how successful your strategy is and see if you’re reaching your goals, you need to know which metrics to track. For example, if your primary goal of a crowdfunding campaign is to raise $10,000, then you’ll know that total revenue is one of the important metrics to keep track of throughout the campaign.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The beneficiary has always been something that would be used widely across the hospital: equipment for our spinal cord and brain injury patients to use during rehabilitation, a van for our adolescent patients to use on outings, or new power and manual wheelchairs to be used by inpatients. . It’s Go Time . One word: gratitude.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” So I think you just need to start.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” Steven, I don’t know if there are any questions.

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Care2

JULY 31, 2013

You have until 12AM tonight to vote for your favorite sessions in tracks such as communications, fundaising, IT, and leadership. Why do our brains crave images over text? Over 350 sessions were submitted to the NTC14 conference to be held March 13th - March 15th in Washington, DC. Check out Frogloop''s top 10 picks.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I guess I’m on the right track.” But a lot of folks aren’t getting that signal because of the culture of our industry. . But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . And I hope today I convinced you no, no, no.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2008

This kind of tracking enables faceless visitors to be treated as regulars, long-lost buddies, and or potential sales opportunities. In it, the author explored the Google's "pervasive culture of measurement," and considered how similar tracking and alterations might be made in the real world. It is user-generated.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

We are now a culture of sharers. Since we know our event attendees are going to share, let’s make sure we track it! The goal is to ingrain your hashtag into attendee’s brains. As you’re preparing for event day and thinking about ordering tents, balloon, tables, etc… add social media to the mix. Create a hashtag. Keep it simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” A Culture of Iteration. This one stopped them in their tracks: “My dad is raping me. It is ongoing.”. Text Crisis Line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money. Here's a brain dump of some key points. Need to track down the cost of the most expensive Van Gogh) It can be difficult to put a dollar value to intangibles in social media.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all, no company can build a coherent culture without people who either share its core values or possess the willingness and ability to embrace those values. What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? So it is Q&A time. Absolutely.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

And like a personal guide, they keep us on track when it’s inevitable that we’ll get lost in the day to day, hustle and bustle, and demands of our jobs. Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

For the first time in human history, we have the ability to create what some people have called, "global brain," where each of us is one cell in a global consciousness. I work really long hours; I'm on the Internet all the time, I'm writing all the time, I'm talking to people on the phone all the time, and I can't keep track of it.

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