Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. Here’s a round up closing plenary and a brief reflection about the plenary session and some great learning moments below. Closing Keynote Plenary Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. PRIORITIES.

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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 also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly.

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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. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We specifically look for frequent discussion of feeling tired, not meeting deadlines, taking more sick leave, and negativity in our teammates. The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks.

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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.

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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. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected. Flexibility. Co-Creating. Making stuff up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

His reflections remind me that I wish I could have immerse myself in the entire content (which was enormous) for the entire month, but those exercises and discussion that I managed to swoop into provided me with significant learning. It also reminded me that I haven't posted my own reflection. Reading through Beth Kanter???s

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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. Avoid any discussion of ideas or questions, as these stop the flow of ideas. Once everyone generates their own ideas, they come together as a group to share their ideas and discuss them. Free-wheeling. WORD STORM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

The tagging discussion included an action learning exercise where we shared a lot of resources about tagging as well as explored the discovery aspect of delicious. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. I "met" Dorine Ruter when we both participated in the online Web 2.0 Why not just use search?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

But I sense in conversations here at the conference that participants are clearer in their minds about the practice of evaluation than they are about the practice of learning. With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. Year in Review. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Boards are the brain trusts of nonprofit organizations, responsible for providing leadership, oversight, expertise, guidance, accountability, vision, fundraising and an invaluable connection to community. When board recruitment comes up on the agendas of most boards, the discussion usually starts with the question, ‘Who do we know?’

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

I often discuss the cost of success and the need to recognize human capital in this equation. My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them. In coming to those decisions, I used the What, So What, Now What reflective approach made famous by John Driscoll.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. January 2016 Anthony visited LACC for the first time where brain cancer was confirmed and he met with Dr. Marootian.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

He spent a long time discussing the IMA’s award-winning online dashboard , which shows real-time data about everything from visitor zip codes to photography requests to the size of the endowment. I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. She reflected and said that she would always prefer someone with interesting, diverse real-world experience over someone who just has a graduate degree. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And when I reflected a little bit more on my aversion to using the phone, I realized a lot of my discomfort was actually related to my own limiting beliefs, both about myself, but also the beliefs I tended to project on to others, right? Take a minute to reflect. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? perfection.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And when I reflected a little bit more on my aversion to using the phone, I realized a lot of my discomfort was actually related to my own limiting beliefs, both about myself, but also the beliefs I tended to project on to others, right? Take a minute to reflect. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? perfection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. Communicating the results. Test and tweak.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. It’s how my brain works.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. And I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. . Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. no, no, no. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? So when I think about back to work as a manager, these are some of the things that comes to mind for me. Let us discuss, my friends. If you’re like me, you might also have half the conversation in your mind before you have it out loud. Absolutely. I love that.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit more, discuss grants. I’m always responsive to those who have anything they want to discuss afterwards. Although, before each of these different parts of the presentation, I will pause to see if there’s anything in the chat box you want to discuss. Rachel: Will do.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. First, I want to say a few words about my enthusiastic support for the critique of closed licensing offered by Michelle by reflecting a bit on my past actions in this regard.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. In her Big Duck blog post, Ally Dommu discusses the need for organizations to have a unique voice, one that’s separate from the traffic.

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