.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations. The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

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. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 use it for annual planning and goal setting. Pictured above).

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AccelEvents

JULY 22, 2021

We now provide you with our new breakout room feature within Workshops to facilitate concentrated conversations. Actionable brainstorm delegation: If the Workshop is specifically amongst a company or team that has a shared goal, breakout rooms can be a super-efficient way to delegate tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. Here they are: My Three Rituals. I also use it as a year in review tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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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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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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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. For example, you could publish a short post to update your audience on how far you are from your $20,000 crowdfunding campaign goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Rituals are also used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Savory’s mission to facilitate the large-scale regeneration of the world’s grasslands is fueled by the generous support of its donors, and recurring giving has become a crucial source of revenue in their goal to influence the management of 1 billion hectares by 2025. Savory: Become a Regenerating Member.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

Inspired by Growth Blazers, here are some things to consider for lead generation in your event management software: Come into your event with lead generation as a primary goal. You can have multiple goals so long as they don’t compete with each other. . Choose an event management software with in-depth attendee analytics. .

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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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience. The next facilitation challenge was to break them into small groups to work on the personas using a poster-sized version of the persona worksheet. And, I only had 15 minutes to set it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

The process encourages stakeholders describe user profiles and what the site needs to meet their needs. Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Movement helps wake them up. Even just a simple stretch. I created a storify of the tweets.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness. To say that social media facilitates distraction is not to say that social media has to control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts.

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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? 2. Think about your goals: Walking has the added benefit of getting your creative juices going.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 9, 2012

Christine is a facilitator, network weaver, and catalyst. Sometimes – not always – the connection is prescribed and there’s a goal involved. The third blogger in this run of the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series is the wonderfully wise, Christine Egger. Something we’re “conversing for the purpose of.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

Jennifer Lee has a wonderful post up on the Right Brain Business Plan blog about writing a letter to your future self as part of a creative goal setting ritual. For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group. Write a letter to yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

His opening plenary helped elucidate the absolute value of persistence in achieving our goals. One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. Jonah Lehrer author of Imagine: How Creativity Works kicked off the day and got my synapses firing – coincidently, he is also a neurobiologist.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. Why not have look at the connections of your staff/board in LinkedIn related to achieving a goal or even just to recruit new board members. The room was silent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Try to avoid the temptation to schedule every hour of every day with meetings that have a specific work flow and goals. An effective way to manage your energy is to design your team scheduled based around those rhythms.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

The goal of this piece is to ensure that the next CME LMS you invest in supports your organization effectively. Facilitating CME in a manner that empowers all interested members to engage with it can be a task easier said than done if your CME LMS isn’t an impactful solution. 5 Features to Seek in Your Next Learning Management System.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

When I do not awaken to a song running through my head, I attribute that to my brain watching over me by not allowing The Joker to slip into my subconscious. Once you have relevant measures of past performance, build your goals for the current and subsequent years based on the historical analysis.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. After doing a keynote talk about the idea in my next book, I facilitated a design lab at Alliance for Nonprofit Management Conference which included executive directors and people who worked in philanthropy, research, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. Bring Others Along. Getting to Work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. Bring Others Along. Get to Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. Somethings to improve.

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