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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Reimagination: This theme relates to the work I do on digital transformation or how emerging technologies can transform the way nonprofits do their work.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. We are asked to master ever evolving technologies. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was.

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What Makes an Innovative Idea Actionable?

Museum 2.0

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. We all felt like the process was too alien to our work environments, too hard to sell, too hard to integrate. Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact.

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Join Me for A Social Design Experiment on April 5

Museum 2.0

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. You have to actually design something—a sign, an incident, an object, an environment.

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5 Advantages of Grants Management Software

sgEngage

This frees up your to-do list—and brain space—to focus on important tasks that improve your grantee experience. And by choosing a cloud-based grants management system, those people can access that information from anywhere, such as while they are on site visits or working in a hybrid or remote environment.

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Why Doesn't Anyone Comment on Your Blog?

Museum 2.0

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. Consider Beth Kanter's blog about non-profits and technology , which is read by about 25,000 people per month. Thank you to Reach Advisors for sharing FASCINATING insight into visitors' brains. They prove that the conversation is two-way.

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