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#40BetterHours: The Art of Single Tasking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It featured a ten minute video by journalist Manoush Zomorodi sharing some ideas and tips on new digital literacy skills of managing information overload and overwhelmed. The challenge was to focus solely on listening to the video and not multi-task and reflect on the experience. This helps improve memory and synthesis.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Net Smart: How To Thrive Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools.

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Spark Engagement, Inspire Loyalty, Upskill to Association 4.0 Board Leadership   

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I frequently advise CEOs about the need to rethink management styles to succeed in digital markets, or what I call Association 4.0 The board’s mindset should reflect current business dynamics and its demographics should mirror the social and cultural landscape. leadership. Volunteers are no exception to that rule. leadership style.