Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Pictured above). 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. This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Pictured above). 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. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

These insiders are the same engineers who designed and built different features in social media platforms that created our behavior addictions. ” The presentation inspired with Ted Talk and then a popular Medium post that discusses how interface design influences people’s behaviors. A solution needs to address all three areas.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. We also love the evolving design for each year’s report. Save time on design and focus on showing your impact. NPR’s 2018 Annual Report boasts a classic red, white and blue color scheme and clean design.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The world’s most talented designers are inspiring others, provoking change, and even saving lives for nonprofits. In my new series Designing for Good , we’ll chat with these innovators about their inspirations, challenges, and favorite tools. Pratima: I’m the Graphic Designer. My favorite tools for design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Pictured above). 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. This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 27, 2016

Why aren’t followers liking our pictures? That said, what are the best ways to use some psychological tidbits to tap into emotional and subconscious urges of the human brain? And nothing is more discouraging than seeing all that hard work not translate into trackable actions. The questions themselves lead to only more frustration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Ask for your raise first, and then ask for a budget for graphic design work (avatar, Twitter background, YouTube Channel background, Facebook banners, etc.), One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

We know a great deal about this Treaty, which is designed to help people who are blind or have other disabilities that interfere with reading, such as dyslexia. People who are low vision can usually magnify pictures to see them better, and our dyslexic users often get much more out of illustrations than they get out of text.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2009

This means time spent translating my thoughts into both words and pictures that convey the meaning in the best, clearest, and most persuasive way. I have noticed that, personally, I respond better to the presentations that rely more on the pictures than the words. Wed Designer Depot post on data visualization.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Once you have your goals, you can work backward to design an appropriate and feasible timeline. Likely, these will also shift throughout the campaign cycle as you gain a clearer picture of available resources. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Evaluation is one of my favorite parts of the instructional design or training process. Use Learning Theory.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

You can also take a picture by winking your right eye. Google is partnering with eyeglass designers like Warby Parker and Ray-Ban to address this. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. How Stuff Works: How Brain-computer Interfaces Work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. Then we snuck downtown about 9:30 pm (our town goes to bed at 8) and plastered them everywhere - from the side of the bank to the backdoor of the bakery to neighbor's windshields.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

My brain is not designed for numbers. Accounting may include a sprinkling of high school algebra now and then, but the biggest part of successful accounting is looking at relationships between numbers and paying attention to the big picture. So, don’t rely too heavily on your accountant. I supervise people that do that.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated. So, bravo to Andrew Means for designing a great end to the conference that can lead to participants applying what they learned – that’s the true result.

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See3

MAY 29, 2018

My gut says maybe the masks themselves just need to be designed differently — why don’t they look like they’re supposed to go over both my nose and mouth? Or put a picture of a nose on them or something. Our brains are wired for story. Now, look, I don’t pretend to know how to solve the oxygen mask problem. (My Immediately.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element – the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. Learning Science by Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I've taught webinars and workshops on how to design and deliver effective training sessions and have written a few blog posts on training and presentation techniques. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic. Widen the Lens: The bigger picture. But I haven't focused on it in much depth recently.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2011

Wendy is a listener, innovator, online community member, information synthesizer, big picture thinker, and Director of Social Media for the American Red Cross. The second guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Wendy Harman.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Humans see the big picture. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Robotics is the field of engineering that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots. Humans think in terms of analogies and metaphors, which allows us to connect concepts and ideas.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Nicholas Carr’s prescient book, The Shallows , claims that the Internet is doing something to our brains. Instagram is a popular photo and short video-sharing service that enables users to take pictures and videos with their smartphones and post them on Instagram's website. Our attention spans are growing remarkably shorter.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If your page is expertly designed then you can get away with microcopy on the subtle side, like Google has on its search page. Maybe, but our brains are trained to go with what we know. This action will open a new window, this action will open our app). It works, because there’s nothing else drawing your attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

But, the brain fog has started to fade. Our questions were: What do you need to know about web/blog design so that your blog can be read by people on a mobile phone? that last question was mine and I had to draw myself a picture ). " This lead us to brainstorm a list: Closeups are a must - for picture and sound.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

However, this only represents part of the picture for your association’s members. Responsive design. Further, a CME LMS that provides a straightforward experience for administrators can drastically decrease the time, energy, and brain-power your team expends to facilitate eLearning. Offline use with automatic sync.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element - the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Some people find that designating certain days each week for the same tasks is helpful. Others find that designated blocks during each day help them stay on track. This one is wayyyy more important than it seems because your brain and body don’t function well if they aren’t rested. I’m sure you’re getting the picture.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Look to your donor database to get a picture of the kind of event your donors might be interested in. The executive director manages the big picture ideas and assigns roles and responsibilities to other staff and volunteers.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Layout and design? They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. You show a picture of Stu and his glorious smile holding his silver medal above his head on the winner’s podium.). Below the picture, you add a quote from Stu’s mom.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. Layer these events into your calendar so you can have a more complete picture of your organization’s needs and limitations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2020

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design firm that specializes in creating digital slide decks with editorial clarity and design that enable nonprofits to connect with audiences and move them from interest to action. Have questions or need help with designing, editing, or writing your next presentation?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. You can use free graphic design tools like Canva to generate infographics to supplement your blog posts. Let’s dive in!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

was designed for Africa and costs more. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. The Big Picture. This is very intriguing big picture forecasting on how the social sector will develop in to a significant global force.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

I get to use my brain to think and figure things out. We found that many people only understand a small part of the Foundation based off of their experiences to date, but they don’t understand the big picture. Next, I shared with the group what I love about my job at Central Florida Foundation.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So I can picture your office or your home office. And before you know it, it’s kind of messy in there because we’ve needed to force a system to do something that it wasn’t designed to do in the first place. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. So, yep, this is me. Be nice to your people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Let them choose how to spend it, either by letting them pick the charity or by designating their donation to a special project. Spend it together online, checking out pictures and project descriptions.".

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We’re going to talk about the bigger picture things as it relates to personal branding and making yourself memorable, so you can raise some more money and improve those donor relations. We’re going to start out kind of the big picture. But the big picture is, let’s put that in our heads for a second.

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