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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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

You may need to get rid of sticky notes and embrace digital tools, better time management, and more efficient processes. Work Smarter with Digital Tools to Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity I used to be an old school pen-and-paper person. It took me a minute to go from old school to the digital age, but now I love it!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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

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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. NPR emphasizes how its “Muslims in America: A New Generation” series explores the multifaceted experiences of muslims living in a post-9/11 America, while its Hidden Brain episode “Why Now?” ICA Fund Good Jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. Jana will share some techniques such as mind mapping and sketchnotes as well as share the different options for tools – both analog (paper and markers) and digital (ipad). Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It.

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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 will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. While Whole Whale offers support for a specific kind of digital fundraising , there is a wide world of fundraising services that these companies can offer. As of writing this, there are over 1,600 open fundraising roles open in the US. Online Course.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. While Whole Whale offers support for a specific kind of digital fundraising , there is a wide world of fundraising services that these companies can offer. As of writing this, there are over 1,600 open fundraising roles open in the US. Online Course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

and 47% of whom are female, spend a collective 3 billion hours per week on digital games! GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. Social Impact Through Digital Games. In Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

And, the terms "digital native" and "digital immigrants" comes from an essay by Marc Prensky dated 2001, over six years ago! These patterns point to some larger trends about generational shifts, digital divides, and dancing in the space in between. It was a late afternoon session and I was brain dead.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Practice Digital Social Distancing When working, eating, sleeping, and spending time with loved ones, we have a perfect opportunity to be socially distant from our devices. These breaks allow our brains and bodies to recover from the stress of being constantly connected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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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. I obtain a list of participants with their organizational contact information and do a scan and audit of their digital presences if I’m leading a session on digital marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. Black-Crowned Night Heron.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. Lee Rainie from the Pew Research Center, gave a talk and shared some stats on “ Our Digital Life: What the Research Shows.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Can participants apply the skills?” I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. I share these back with participants as part of the resources that I provide, often digitized and put on a wiki.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). Victoria, Canada: Growing Your Digital Fundraising — E-Blasting 101.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I also covered some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”). Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

We also shine the light on the potential security problems of smart toys, predict the end of the digital divide, and discuss a health-related wearable that can't get here fast enough and some intriguing 10 year-old predictions that just happened to come true. Digital Divide Will Be Bridged in 2016. Social Media and Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

So, the real question is - if you have both of these types of tasks to accomplish- they take different approaches, probably use different sides of your brain, etc. Can we expect that down the road five or ten years that we might have "social literacies, skills, and competencies" at the nonprofit staff level?

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

Creating display maps – in print or as digital images – is easier than ever before, and interactive, web-based mapping is all over the place, so to speak. To successfully compete for those brain cycles, we've found four characteristics of successful mapping projects, whether the products are fixed images or interactive applications: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Some notes from the white paper, I'm still digesting it (not being a digital native, I had to print it out). Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. The skill set: Play ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

Almost ten years ago, I used to teach a workshop called " Digital Information Coping Skills " for artists and arts organizations as part of a series of workshop on the theme of how to integrate the Internet into your (arts) organization's mission. I asked him, on Twitter, if he thought his brain had evolved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Being an effective social media manager is both an art and a skill. new media manager, digital marketing manager, etc.) It’s a real skill to navigate and guide the online commons and know how and when to react. Is not overly confident about her social media skills. has most of the following qualities: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Colbert quipped, "I know my car jacking skills have gone up."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? So negativity bias can tend to feed into fear, which is another perfectly normal function of your brain. It’s simply your brain doing its job. Fear is hardwired into our brain, and everyone feels it whether they like to admit it or not. Oh, thank you.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

It's no secret that we are advocates of digital storytelling at TechSoup. This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! A Jamboree of Tools. Sounding It Out.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

And while the installation is digital (560 fluorescent displays backed by individual tiny speakers), the effect, when multiplied across a large space, is intensely physical. We have well-developed design skills for interpreting and presenting stories and objects. It has to, because that content is the basis for the work itself.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They bring a diverse set of experiences, skills, talents, perspectives. And then, as we continue to engage in this digital remote world, I think we’re all becoming much more comfortable with leveraging technology and social media to amplify our message as well. It’s how my brain works. Very linear thinker over here.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

I frequently advise CEOs about the need to rethink management styles to succeed in digital markets, or what I call Association 4.0 There is a welcome post-pandemic trend to make demographic diversity a top priority and to think of the board as a brain trust that represents the members’ boldest ideas and vision. leadership.

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