Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

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. I also use it as a year in review tool. What gave me joy? What should I let go of?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

She reached out to me at least quarterly, we had phone calls, Zoom calls, and even met in person for coffee. The Maimonides “Golden Ladder” of Giving says capacity giving (teach a person to fish), and anonymous (no credit needed) gifts, are the “highest,” but I’ve never really held to that. So far so good. And virtuous.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very make up of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

One of the science-based findings identified that online meetings get the same results as in-person meetings when everyone turns on their video cameras. In person, we are able to use our peripheral vision to glance out the window or look at others in the room. “In And it may have implications for our health. “In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. We are living and working in a world that is connected and where sacred space and deep thinking, essential ingredients to online personal productivity and well-being, is almost becoming extinct. What is personal productivity?

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APRIL 17, 2024

The best blogs engage audiences by making personal connections with readers and sharing insider mission information. These are fictional representations of different audience segments. Options to read your content in different languages depending on your audience’s needs. Add specific details that bring your personas to life.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

We each tackled a different aspect of resilience. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it. There are also lots of ideas for different rituals that your nonprofit can establish. The Power of Workplace Rituals To Nurture Resilience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. 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.”

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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! There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Use Learning Theory. The four levels are: Reaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The commonality was that everyone was working on Women’s Rights and Social Justice, although from different local contexts and different types of programs. So, I had participants do a share pair with another person or team and discuss their target audiences. One might think, oh no, this is impossible.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

A virtual, in-person, and hybrid event can all be used in generating leads. For example, an in-person event may have less data if the participants only provide information to the event at the time of registration. . Opt-in for collecting data on just the person purchasing the tickets, each attendee, and each add-on. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever. While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Because I like to design for real world application, I often target more than one person from an organization to participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time. A bonus delivery tip.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and." is a technique that slows the brain down. It facilitates conversation. and "Yes, but." "Yes, Yes, and." Bob Kulhan So, how do you start using improv? how you react).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices? Different experts can speak at different locations. Involve Different Office Locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person. So, you have to design for that.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Mixing Business and Pleasure: Managing Your Personal and Professional Brand in Social Media (7-8 am Friday) - Yes, 7 o'clock in the morning. 11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

As many trainers and teachers already know, people have different learning styles. Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Rob Cottingham.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Mixing Business and Pleasure: Managing Your Personal and Professional Brand in Social Media (7-8 am Friday) – Yes, 7 o'clock in the morning. Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) – The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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MAY 25, 2021

This includes social distancing and masks for safety, building capacity limits for instructor-led training, and of course, the mass pivot of all in-person events to the virtual sphere. For example: Members living in different geographical areas and as a result, different time zones.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

I think the decline of personal letter writing is one of saddest casualties of technological expansion. Jennifer Lee has a wonderful post up on the Right Brain Business Plan blog about writing a letter to your future self as part of a creative goal setting ritual. Watercolor postcard with rubber stamp I love letters.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We are here to talk about personal branding, specifically how to make yourself memorable. We got five excellent tactics for you that’ll help you raise more money, and improve your donor relationships through personal branding. And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. I’m Steven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. Different experts can speak at different locations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. There were many, covering the personal and the professional (which, as this community knows well, is also personal), but I kept looking for some elusive grand unified theory to tie them all together. Some Internet People strike the flint every time. Let’s do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Think about how you can make a difference. Understand the Two Different Types of Attention. Her approach is to balance connection and disconnection and understand when and how to use the different types of attention. I had to reteach my body not to respond in this way.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

I don't believe in the expert as one person, but more as a network. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. Kanter will bring together a group of highly visible free agents working on important social change causes and representatives from different nonprofits for a lively discussion with the audience. Check out his illustration of the panel). Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” How can you tell the difference? I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

So, while at BlogHer 07 I had a little bit of a personal learning mission: What can I learn about mobile video blogging in a global context? But, the brain fog has started to fade. And, this was also mentioned on our discussion thread for the Cambodia Bloggers Summit too, but a different blog post.).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2024

They fear rejection Make sure board understand a “no” is not personal. Don’t forget, MRI studies show merely thinking about and considering giving lights up the pleasure centers of our brain and brings a warm shot of ‘feel good’ dopamine. People have different values. and run by a seasoned facilitator. That’s okay.

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