Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The space creates a calm and reflective environment. In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well. There are couches and comfortable chairs.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 7, 2020

Fortunately, the very makeup of the human brain offers some potential avenues for increasing engagement in a digital environment and producing a far more satisfying experience overall. When we are engaged in stimulating activities, the brain releases dopamine , a neurotransmitter that leaves us feeling positive and happy.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In today’s digital landscape, integrating social media buttons on your nonprofit website signifies a commitment to fostering engagement, driving awareness, and facilitating convenient avenues for supporters to contribute. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities. Have you facilitated a training in a flexible space?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

is a technique that slows the brain down. It facilitates conversation. Move around before your next meeting, phone call, or presentation—pace, jump, or shake your limbs a bit, to get blood pumping more quickly throughout your body and increase the amount of oxygen to your brain. "Yes, and." how you react).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

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. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! In Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices? Walking meetings can help shakes things up. Different experts can speak at different locations.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Last Friday, for the first part of the Matrix Group holiday celebration, I hired a facilitator to run a group discussion about the year we’ve just had. Brian Tarallo from Lizard Brain led us through a two-hour reflection and asked us questions like: What has been your overarching mood in 2021? Reinventing the Work Environment.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

But how do we get organizational mindsets to shift or at least create an environment where self-care is valued and becomes the norm? Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. As a trainer, I have incorporated movement breaks and moving around into instruction because this helps wake up peoples’ brains. .” Senior Leaders Get on Their Walking Shoes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Instead, how can you use your Facebook group to engage your fellows, change your work environment, and spark your movement. Both posts influenced this speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

But, the brain fog has started to fade. The photographs above were taken on the last day of Blogher, at the Unconference on Sunday morning facilitated by the talented Kaliya Hamlin who blogs about unconferences here. How can a mobile device connect you to the physical environment? I remember being inspired by it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. What he was saying that you have to integrate periods of time where you can step way from the computer and distraction and reconnect with yourself and the environment. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. I’m always up for a conversation with other facilitators about shop talk and getting tips for improving my practice.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. And there are three reasons I’d really value your participation: I want to suck your brain and revel in your inventiveness. This is something I am obsessively curious about.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage. This frees up your to-do list—and brain space—to focus on important tasks that improve your grantee experience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Sure, it might be nice to broadcast your blog feed to a screen in the museum somewhere, but the real value is for readers who can visit again and again from the flexibility of their own environment. may be best suited to a web-only environment, where visitors can surf unrestrained. Sepagration. while at the computers.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Your job is to dis­cover ways to create an easy-going environment that encourages your entire staff to become better writers. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. It’s how my brain works. And so being able to create an environment where you can role-play and you can help your board members feel more confident, I think is really great. They can help with follow-up. Very linear thinker over here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Note from Beth: Last month, I facilitated a workshop for the Knight Digital Media Learning Seminar in Miami on “Leading on Social Media.” Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

They are doing it in an environment and with a set of tools that allow them to operate with excellence and there’s opportunity for stretch and growth within your organization. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. Understanding the business flow.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And is a really great and pretty highly esteemed trainer and facilitator. In fact, he was named one of the 10 best retreat facilitators in America. Let’s look at the nonprofit environment and why that’s so important. I don’t know exactly how you were able to accomplish that, Tom, but it’s pretty cool.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests. Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. You need to be in an environment where you can alter things based on what you think. It's not enough to just receive information.

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