Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2022

I find that I am equally productive in both spaces with no transition ‘issues’ The only difference is my home office includes Max, our Blue Fronted Amazon, who always wants to chat! – Foster Mindfulness. Blackbaud Champions recommend a spring cleaning for your mind, too! Our office has a weekly mindfulness session.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

This blog series is designed to help nonprofit professionals like you make subtle mindset shifts that can make a big difference in your work, as well as increase your job satisfaction. . And by getting comfortable with our stories and sharing them, we can make a great deal of difference both personally and professionally. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

When you’re overworked and over stressed, it affects your concentration—your mind wanders, you forget things easily, you can’t focus. Self-care solution: Add more movement into your workday—stand up and walk around to clear your mind. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

The mesolimbic part of the brain assigns values to the sensory stimuli, helping us classify what we feel. The rational part of a donor’s brain still mediates the action evoked or prompted by the emotional part through values and learnings. When a donor responds to emotions, the brain releases volatile power chemicals. .

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Inspiration came from two very different places. . One in particular that piqued my interest was Mindful Design , a new framework that supports the intentions of people using our products and services instead of pushing our own agendas—making purposeful design decisions that actually help people. Carson is not mindful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

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. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. Carol Dweck is a great resource to understand the difference between a “fixed” and “growth” mindset. We all fail. Clearly articulate lessons learned.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. Carol Dweck is a great resource to understand the difference between a “fixed” and “growth” mindset. We all fail. Clearly articulate lessons learned.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 13, 2021

The brain dump. Just write whatever comes to mind. Then set deadlines for different content. Whenever you are writing your stories, whether it be for a newsletter, for a speech, for an appeal letter, or for a Facebook post, considering going through the following 5 steps. . Pre-writing. . Drafting. . Via newsletters?

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

Three small words can make ALL the difference in your fundraising appeals. 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. And they’re backed by science.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. 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. The first step may be to change the way you work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

The benefits of taking control of your digital life in and outside the office are immense: greater presence and mindful attention, enhanced productivity and creativity, better relationships, improved sleep and less risk of anxiety. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. Moving reboots your concentration and replenishes energy.

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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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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. What reboots your brain?

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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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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?” You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain.

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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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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Savory offers different perks for different giving levels to incentivize and thank donors accordingly. . Break up your incentives based on the size of the recurring gift and offer different perks for higher giving levels. Motivate donors with different perks for different giving levels. Savory belt buckle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. Carol Dweck is a great resource to understand the difference between a “fixed” and “growth” mindset. We all fail. Clearly articulate lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

You know a conference is going to be a different experience when you walk into the conference area and there is harpist playing beautiful meditative music that melts away as the chimes and bells ring to signal the beginning of the conference. I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Over the years, I have experienced the ill effects of staring at screen or sitting in a chair and pounding the keyboard for hours and hours. I’ve learned to take screen less breaks to calibrate my mind and body. Otherwise, what do you do to take a break from technology to revitalize your mind and body? Artist Tiles.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. 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.” In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

Developing a daily route can be helpful in terms of productivity and getting your mind in the GTD (getting things done) zone. Maybe your daily routine is actually a weekly routine, where certain days of the week look different than others so you still get that remote work flexibility. Work in Sprints. Don’t go there.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2020

It’s how you deal with setbacks is what makes the difference.” Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. Carol Dweck is a great resource to understand the difference between a “fixed” and “growth” mindset. We all fail. Clearly articulate lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

As nonprofits become networked and different departments work across silos, we need to interact with more people than ever. Research also shows that taking time for silence restores the nervous system, helps sustain energy, and conditions our minds to be more adaptive. Another reason is connectivity. It can also improve your memory.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2018

I know what you’re thinking: food can’t make that big of a difference in someone’s day. Games=Brain food. Playing a game every once in a while is a great way to reset and activate parts of your brain you wouldn’t normally use at work. People can also eat while they work, which allows them to have fun while being productive.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

A disability is any condition of the mind or body that makes it more difficult for someone to partake in certain activities and may impair their ability to participate easily in normal daily pursuits. There is so much diversity in the world, but one type of diversity that often gets overlooked or forgotten is disability diversity.

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Tech-savvy audiences like millennials are also familiar with automated emails and tell the difference between a generic email sent to a thousand people and one written personally for them. . also supports the impact of physical documents as our brains comprehend text better when it’s printed than when it’s on a screen. Segmentation.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Throughout countless different phases and stages of life as a human being, we know that things will always be changing. Or, perhaps you are aware of a new/different process or product that you believe will move your organization forward, even if the way things are isn’t horrible. This is a proactive change. Emotional adaptability .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

Many times I take notes in a visual format like mind mapping that helps me better understand the conversation as it unfolds. I have practiced using my iPad with drawing apps, but I’m not quite fluent enough in it. I also wonder if there is an impact on being creative? So, Alexandra, I’ll keep my pen and paper notebooks.

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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. More and more nonprofits are adopting flexible workplace or have remote teams in different cities. Having a remote team or a hybrid of on-site and remote team members requires a different way of working.

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OneCause

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Using your CRM, divide your donor list into a series of smaller, more specialized groups based on different shared attributes. Then, craft different messages to send to each group. Through donating to a nonprofit, your supporters get to connect with other like-minded people all striving towards a shared cause.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain works. Our brain, meanwhile, is telling us that it feels good to. help others.

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