Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2011

Red Crossers Jenny Brennan, Wendy Harman, and Seth Spiro checking Twitter and other social media in the Disaster Operations Center in Washington, DC Photo by American Red Cross. This type of having fun and doing good I expected when I accepted my job, but it has been more rewarding than I imagined.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. When we are engaged in what we think is multitasking, what we’re really doing is we’re forcing the brain to switch back and forth really rapidly and creating feelings of anxiety and stress in our physical body. So you give money and volunteer.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

But no matter the circumstance, triumph, or disaster, it’s nonprofits like yours that keep this world turning. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. I can still feel the weight of my pencil as the TVs were turned off and I was encouraged to keep working. Tell stories. Evoke emotion. Ready for this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas. We also did fun and creative after lunch energizers. On the first day, in honor of being in India, I played a YouTube video of a well-loved Bollywood number called “ Chaya, Chaya.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

A workshop that simply attempts to stuff content into people’s brains is highly ineffective. The curriculum incorporated “overnight” reflections everyday as well as many exercises to help process what they learned. This project has identified the following definitions of success: A Peer-to-Peer Learning Exchange.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. It Ensures Continuity in a Worst-Case Scenario A content plan serves as insurance against disaster. And that’s okay!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . The power goes out, you have some sort of disaster, or you just have things that are changing and you want to keep track of, “Quickly, what do we do to get into a change?” I’ve made a ton of mistakes. This is the same document.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

If people who are more socially-linked are truly faster to catch an infection, perhaps the most socially-linked leaders would be fastest to identify & respond to destructive impulses in our now more collective brain. Such leaders would be quick to remind us of what underlies our basic links to each other in a civil society.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

While the logical portions of our brains may be able to take in large numbers, our emotions have a harder time. We see this a lot after natural disasters when hundreds of thousands of people need aid.

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