Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

Walking as exercise has documented mental and physical benefits. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . If you had an exercise routine before, during lunch, or after work, maintain it. Keep moving and practice mindfulness.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

One exercise I particularly enjoyed was called the Mash-Up. Through this exercise, I came up with the idea of a time-tracking app that features video footage of nature that plays in the background. Combining a workplace necessary evil with moments of delight was an inspiring exercise. How are they alike? Carson is not mindful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home. The human brain is an extremely complex organ, but it should be getting easier to tune up different exercises for different recovery needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

In 90 minutes, we did two exercises that helped participants identify their target audience and then build out a persona, a fictionalized character that described motivations, barriers and identifies the right content and channels to use. Then it was time for a simple exercise. Write a target audience definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Which brain do you think is more open to learning, retaining, and applying the content during a training?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

My doctor’s advice was to start eating a heart healthy diet and get more exercise. ” It isn’t about making the time or thinking about physical activity or movement as a separate exercise time, but something that is integrated into your life – including work time. It’s not a luxury.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Taking time to reflect on what makes you successful as a leader can be an important exercise in helping you grow. Rather than placing the responsibility on individuals, this leader tends to place greater emphasis on group projects and tasks and lives by the adage “two brains is better than one.”. Interested in learning more?

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

A single, successful social media post can drive major traffic to your exercise-for-a-cause. Request a Demo The post 33 Perfect Exercise Captions for Instagram first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. You don’t want it to seem like you’re bragging but still want to draw enough attention to those gains, so they don’t go unnoticed.

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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. Group Idea Generation: After laying out the ground rules and a simple warm up exercise, participants are encouraged to share their ideas verbally. Brainstorming Warm Up Exercise. Say the ground rules for brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. This mirrors what you might do in a face-to-face workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). I have used online polling mostly on Webinars to learn more about audience characteristics at the beginning of the session and as reflection exercises in between sections of content.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Write that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The examples are work place learning, but useful to anyone who is doing training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The value of this exercise was that it inspired me to rethink my routine about bedtime rituals. hours per night, I felt a lot better and had much more discipline to start to build other healthy habits – such as daily exercise. What I discovered is that once I was able to achieve my optimal number of 8.25

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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. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Learning activities might include full group discussion, spectragrams , or interactive lectures , sticky note facilitation , small group exercises or games , share pairs, or independent work (reading, working on an assessment, or poster). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. David’s improv exercises were designed to help us stretch this muscle and apply to our social change work.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The secret is in the structure and design of the small group exercises. And, as the facilitator, you have to be good at improvising and skilled at coaching some participants to adapt exercise so it meets their need. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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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. Building on the futureme exercise, he encourage people to get the contact information for a colleague and connect following the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea. ” On Day 2, we take a deep dive into understanding how to develop an integrated social media strategy, beginning with an exercise that helps participants really define what success means.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have been using this technique for the past couple of months to incorporate walking and exercise into my day. The benefit of moving around helps with concentration. Still, you have to get stuff done. Workstation popcorn is probably best suited for remote workers and people who work at home, but you can do it in an office setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

As part of the face-to-face training, we spent a day introducing participants to the different platforms and because we had wifi at the training, integrated using it as part of the exercise report outs. We are also using a Facebook group for daily communication. There is also an self-assessment exercise. We did this on Day 1.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping. Here are some really simple ideas to keep you grounded and balanced: Treating yourself to 30 quiet minutes each morning before facing the challenges of your day. Begin or increase your activity and try to fit in 30 minutes each day. Literally, take a hike! Turn your screens off.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Initially, we act in small ways to satisfy the brain’s desire to take the path of least resistance. The brain is an economic model that is always trying to gain the largest return on investment. For instance, I want to lose weight, but can I figure out a way to do it without eating right or exercising?

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The name comes from the “dura” matter in the brain, which is where spinal leaks happen. and share via email and social media. 40 amazing fundraisers signed on to help raise money, with one super-volunteer raising over $13,000 by herself. Each year they hold an event called Duradash. Historically they’ve made right about $5000 each year.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Is our brain changing as a result? By training the brain to shift activities rapidly for multitasking, we may be decreasing the brain’s ability to focus. If one learns to put structure around technology - they will decrease the effect that technology is having on their brain. Is this ADD? What can we do?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 27, 2013

It’s our small way of giving back to the missions that our software users support – and a great team-building exercise for our own company culture. Conditions served include: cerebral palsy, spina bifida, neuromuscular disorders, post-traumatic brain injury, autism, ADHD, and cognitive disorders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) Question : Traveling for business often derails a person''s healthy eating habits, exercise routine, and sleep routine. This style of exercise is also great from a time and resources perspective.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

that sends exercise and sleep info the cloud. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. When the letter flashes that the user wants to type, the software registers the jump in brain activity and types the corresponding letter.

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