Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. I start with a participant agenda and then I do a detailed description, typically with columns that are labeled: time/objective/content/instructional design/documentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why. Most of this information could be better captured in a dashboard, project document or an email update. Sound familiar? Work to your energy. Create Device Free Zones.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. I can enlighten my mind, enliven my spirit, and experience what I couldn’t before. Meet Kevin and “Sophia” (who anonymously shared her story with my team).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. Many of the social problems we see daily have always existed, but it wasn’t until the rise of mobile and social media that we were given constant access to the stories, images, and videos that document humankind’s dark side.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2016

Simply writing down what you want to work on helps quiet your mind to focus on the task; setting the timer solidifies your intention to work on that task. Clear Your Environment to Clear Your Mind. Metaphorically declutter your mind by clearing your desk and computer screen. Take a Mindful Moment.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2012

Or we go to the other extreme and create a presentation full of images, animations, and more information than any human mind can handle. Second: Edit each slide so it is easy on the eye and on the brain. One viable one is to have hyperlinks to supporting documents and web pages. There are ways to do so.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. Images are an important part of keeping online visitors on your website— 91% of consumers prefer visual content to written content, and the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text!

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

You can use pencil and paper, an Excel document, or an online tool like Clockify which lets you click ‘Start’ and ‘Stop’ every time you begin or end an activity. Keeping a task list can save you time and clear your mind. The problem is that “Update the website” is too big of a project and your mind doesn’t know where to start.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed. Some Internet People strike the flint every time.

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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. You can assign a second person to be a scribe or you can have participants use sticky notes to document their own ideas. Osborn outlines the essential rules of a successful group brainstorming session. Clarify ideas.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Keep in mind that your organization may be facing more than one of these challenges— but luckily, there are strong software solutions to help your association overcome them. Let’s cover five key aspects to keep in mind when searching for a new CME LMS. Document data related to Maintenance of Certification (MOC)-compliant courses.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Some models are meant to be used as building blocks to help you assemble longer documents. For longer documents, like “Thank You – Story Driven” in this example, Fundwriter first presents you with 5 beginnings. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds.

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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. I will continue exploring and writing about assessment, curriculum development, facilitation, evaluation, and documentation. Year in Review.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. Most people will forgive an occasional grammar or spelling error, but writing letter after letter and document after document littered with spelling errors, grammatical mistakes, and choppy sentence flow will dilute the credibility of a writer—and a nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

With that in mind, we asked you for your advice for monitoring online feedback as part of this month's Net2 Think Tank: Topic: What are your best practices for effectively monitoring online feedback about your organization, cause, or enterprise. Scheduling your day will save your brain from the oh-so-common 'what.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Creating and documenting procedures may seem kind of silly when it’s just you, but again, putting these into place NOW makes them part of your organization’s operations and will save you from lots of headaches later. You can even create your next step and document it in the software so you always know what’s next with each contact you make.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

Whether it's an online game like Signtific , a tutoring center like 826 Valencia , or an educational event like Living Library , my engineer brain wants to figure out what makes these innovative projects tick and then tinker with those design lessons in my own work. There's a whole section of this blog called Unusual Projects and Influences.

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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. Document on the fly. Investment.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. Pull together grant documents that will be due soon after you return. You may have trouble keeping your mind off work. That’s right! Return emails. Make website updates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

MagnaFlyer was developed with a large and specific audience in mind—individuals suffering from Macular Degeneration. This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills. It’s called MagnaFlyer.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. And again, this idea that death is as natural as birth, it’s inevitable sooner or later, we’re all hoping for later, of course, but, at times in life, it’s more top of mind. So, Claire, I will pipe down here. Here we go.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. So that’s one of the risks of not having documentation. . ” So having documentation is helpful. So we don’t document it until we can perfect it. And what I’d say is document what happens now [inaudible 00:43:51]. Be nice to your people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible. Wikis are great for collaborative document development and knowledge sharing. How have nonprofits you're working with used wikis?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Your guests meet other like-minded people connected to your organization. It’s well-documented that merely contemplating making a gift to others causes a dopamine jolt in the brain equivalent to that received when eating chocolate, having sex, or engaging in some other “ warm glow ” activity. That’s why I don’t hate events.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? So we actually draw our strategic plans, our impact strategies, as mind maps. They are not documents, there is no fancy graphic design, they are mind maps. It’s hard.”

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. . So before I go into ARPA, are there any questions, Steven, that I should be mindful of?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . If you don’t believe that phone calls make a difference, that story should change your mind. . So we got on a call with the team and we created this document. And I give you this document if you want to create and make your own.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2017

When we think of planned giving, so often we think of lawyers, accountants, legal documents, research and all of the things that sound time consuming and expensive. That’s who I have in mind as I pick the brains of experts every single week and planned giving has certainly been among the topics we’ve talked about.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Keep in mind that you can also leverage social media tools for your fundraising campaigns. Social media challenge In a social media challenge, nonprofits invite supporters to complete a task or activity and document it on their social media to raise awareness and funds. Social media.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So just keep that in mind. But you should document that organizational basic foundation structure for your database. I mean, do I have to stress why do we need this case for consistent, clean data?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Nonprofit Hub documents the 7 Steps to Compelling Staff Bios On Your Nonprofit Website . Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. Steve Maclaughlin’s 10th episode of npVoices rallies some of the nonprofit sector’s brightest minds. Give it a look. It’s crucial to content creation.

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