sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking Care of Yourself While Changing The World by Meico Marquette Whitlock and a foreword by Beth Kanter 3 Ways to Thrive When Your Work Doesn’t Love You Back You’re committed to making a positive difference in the world. for dinner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. It lessens the fear and it helps them focus on where these tools are useful and where they can become more useful, valuable to your nonprofit’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

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 call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It helps avoid burnout and improves attention. On a video call, because we are all sitting in different homes, if we turn to look out the window, we worry it might seem like we’re not paying attention,” writes Liz Fosselien for Harvard Business Review. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, 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. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

These can help you predict whether participants will act on the training after the workshop: More than one person from an organization should participate so the ideas can be transferred to the whole organization. Design for Different Levels of Capacity and Skills: Adapt in Real Time. Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

We each tackled a different aspect of resilience. Rituals are also 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn. There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

And for many donors, giving is a reflection of who they want to be. The gift you give to this organization will no doubt help them and those who rely on them. But will it help you fulfill your potential? So help your colleagues by asking away. Both about your philanthropy, and about you. Please submit your question here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The workshops took place in different locations, including LinkedIn Headquarters in the UK, GA, and a co-working space called Second Home , a creative co-working space and cultural venue, bringing together diverse industries, disciplines and types of social businesses. The break helps boost productivity. What reboots your brain?

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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 call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On a video call, because we are all sitting in different homes, if we turn to look out the window, we worry it might seem like we’re not paying attention,” writes Liz Fosselien for Harvard Business Review. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. And it may have implications for our health. “In

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Nonprofit storytelling helps give a face and a name to the mission your organization carries out. 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. Our neural activity increases 5X when listening to a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” ” We all do it. Still, you have to get stuff done.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Bright Pink helps save lives from breast and ovarian cancer by empowering women to know their risk and manage their health proactively. Savory offers different perks for different giving levels to incentivize and thank donors accordingly. . Motivate donors with different perks for different giving levels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. “Batch Concepts” – If you are working on five different stories, don’t jump around. This helps improve memory and synthesis. Write a to do list. Single tasking – Do one thing at a time.

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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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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

While we were busy catching up on sleep, we also spent a lot of time reflecting on the experience. As a small nonprofit we have struggled to fully engage with technology to help us fulfill our mission. We saw the power of stick figures on napkins and how visuals can help us make a stronger case for our nonprofit’s work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

On the one hand, that fervor helps us to keep going in the face of difficult challenges, like analyzing a huge data set. It helped me become aware of my unhealthy habits and pivoting to more healthy ones, despite what some vocal critics of fitness trackers say. How much sleep does your body actually need? Is there a magic number?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Participants design and launch a social media experiment that helps them improve their practice and share learning with one another. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . This helped us bring in people with knowledge who are not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

” While a participant survey is an important piece of your evaluation, it is critical to incorporate a holistic reflection of your workshop. This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. Use Learning Theory.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

These are fictional representations of different audience segments. There are advantages to writing both short and long-form posts: Short-form posts of around 300-500 words can be read quickly from a mobile device and they help deliver timely or urgent messages to your audience. Add specific details that bring your personas to life.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Different brains – visual vs words. Helpful guide tone vs colorful and wordy. Step 3: Reflection – where the greatest learning is. Reflection. One small step: what is one small step that you can take to make a big different in your organization to become a networked nonprofit. Simplicity.

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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. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. Therefore, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. The physical space you are working in will also help inform your design. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to connect with more people than ever. If your work requires after hours coverage for emergencies, assigning staff shifts can help avoid burnout. More and more nonprofits are adopting flexible workplace or have remote teams in different cities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Therefore, brands should not focus on the changing interests; rather, focus on helping the public participate in a movement. No matter what the issue is, if people can see themselves, their families or their neighbors reflected, they are more likely to act for good. This tells the brain that others believe like you do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. So, for this workshop, I did it a little bit differently. This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning. Some learnings from the simulation: It's good to set limits in choosing the tools and the point system helped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress. It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. The key is where your carry your phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. Brainstorming is very useful for staff meetings to generate ideas for different programs or campaigns. Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. It can help apply improv to our work in social change by practicing what it means to have a networked mindset. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. The four-day workshop has a different theme for each day as follows: Day 1: The Power of Networks. We are working very closely with V.S.

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