Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

Better yet, approach your employer about a meditation or nap room and show them data on increased productivity from a well-rested staff. When you’re overworked and over stressed, it affects your concentration—your mind wanders, you forget things easily, you can’t focus. What we eat and drink can impact how our bodies and brains work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

Last week I attended the DoGoodData Conference in Chicago where I learned an incredible amount about the human side of data – themes like data visualization, data informed culture, using data for impact, and more. As Andrew joked, 50% of the individuals work as data scientists for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

He has some terrific advice about how to apply visual thinking to your data visualization and to get insights. But first, he simplifies what visual thinking is: Look, See, Imagine, and Show. These are a great set of questions to ask as you look over your data. The steps are: Collect your data. Map the data.

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

You open TikTok to recharge your brain and treat yourself to some bite-sized videos. Data from this year’s Benchmarks made it clear that TikTok is being used by many nonprofits—30% of Benchmarks participants were active on the platform in 2022. Read Time: 4 minutes It’s lunchtime.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. . These short films, which take viewers on a journey into the specifics of your work in 90 seconds or less, have many benefits.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Data entry is such an easy thing to do. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. During the work day, focus solely on your plan for that day, the plan you created with success in mind.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

You should collect valuable event attendee data through the online ticketing and registration process. . When collected in the right event planning software , you can then export this data to your integrated customer relationship management (CRM) software; you can use email marketing sequences for demand gen purposes.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts, and the word because triggers us to comply. The Research. There sure is.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This is why you need to look at your goals, measure your results, and tweak your stories based on that data. By opening up the audience to a new idea or way of thinking, you can open their hearts and minds to the work you’re doing and get them further invested in your cause. . Incorporate humor into your story. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” ” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness? Mindfulness'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Get Fully Funded

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.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He sees the major hurdles to wearables to be the same as cloud: privacy of data collected, and security of personal data getting hacked or stolen. The data flows into a database with an interface useful to doctors. It’s basically typing with the mind. Another concern is that Glass looks geeky and Borg-like.

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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. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review. My Three Words.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. Your site map, data structure, and server security all play an important role in how search engines index your site and assess its relevance to various search topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

After Day 2 at the GEO conference my mind is abuzz! True insight and creativity come when we are relaxed and our mind is wandering, not when we are jacked up on Red Bull and a double-shot Venti cappuccino (even in Seattle). People choose what data to accept or reject based on the story they have in their heads.

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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. Remember, a blog is not just a traffic booster but a tool to educate, inspire, and mobilize your audience.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Postcards don’t take up much space, and an attention-grabbing photo can convince supporters to hold onto it and keep your nonprofit in the back of their minds. . ?. . also supports the impact of physical documents as our brains comprehend text better when it’s printed than when it’s on a screen. a wealth of data.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This doesn’t mean that you should talk down to your donors or that they’re unintelligent: it just means that they’re probably using their brain power for other things and quickly skimming emails and mailers. Along with asking donors directly, you can gain plenty of insight into donors’ individual charitable interests from your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Even if you use features like “night shift” on your mobile phone that softens or warms up that blue light, there isn’t enough data to support that it solves the problem. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. I don’t.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. Using Data to Measure Your Mission – Laura Quinn. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. Visual Strategies for Focus In Age of Distraction. The Benefits of Content Curation.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. 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. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI processes information and makes decisions using algorithms and data. AI is only as objective as its programmers and its data. Humans can invent new ideas and solutions based on emotions, relationships, and a host of other circumstances related to consciousness, while AI systems can only generate new outputs based on existing data.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. And the idea of culture presumes the experience of work at a particular company is uniform—that everyone has a similar experience—whereas the data tells us that the opposite is true. We wrote the book to point the way to what actually works , at work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. And the idea of culture presumes the experience of work at a particular company is uniform—that everyone has a similar experience—whereas the data tells us that the opposite is true. We wrote the book to point the way to what actually works , at work.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. And the idea of culture presumes the experience of work at a particular company is uniform—that everyone has a similar experience—whereas the data tells us that the opposite is true. We wrote the book to point the way to what actually works , at work.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

"Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. "Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. And the idea of culture presumes the experience of work at a particular company is uniform—that everyone has a similar experience—whereas the data tells us that the opposite is true. We wrote the book to point the way to what actually works , at work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

It was a blast to be with an entire conference full of social good software and data people from around the world. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. Of course we know that the questioner has no data to speak of and today’s answer is probably “nothing.” This is data in service to communities.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Russell Feldman, Data Systems Manager, Community Resource Exchange. Ash Shepherd, Strategy & Process, Minds on Design Lab. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Annie Lynsen, Marketing Director, Small Act.

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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. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. We have found that the process of listing your resources in a clear, organized manner can help you wrap your brain around how you can go about raising the funds needed. Be mindful of remaining “strategic” (have we used this word enough?),

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How can we protect yet empower ourselves, our kiddos, families, and communities among the multiple data streams social/media converge? 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.

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