Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Last week, we had a board retreat to dive into identifying core results as part of results-based accountability work , facilitated by an excellent outside consultant. Board retreats, day long meetings, can be potentially be deadly — sitting most of the time and hearing a parade of reports. However, this was far from it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

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 also designed and facilitated a nonprofit leadership institute at Pepperdine University. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Investing in digital-first fundraising and marketing communications.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. I hope that participants took away from our session, if nothing else, that content curation requires the human brain, as Robin Good points out.

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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

APRIL 2, 2013

I have the honor of designing and facilitating three sessions, including a plenary on my favorite topic – learning from failure. Beth Kanter will facilitate this session with a panel of nonprofit tech leaders and the community – and special surprise guests who will join us via video. Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

For example, an in-person event may have less data if the participants only provide information to the event at the time of registration. . Gamification increases audience engagement by activating the rewards systems in our brains, increasing the odds that attendees will do the things you want them to do (i.e.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Use Learning Theory. Formative Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many times, it means both the “doer” and the “decision maker.”. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. . Make Solo Time A Part of Your Team Culture.

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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. It has been a long time since I’ve attended a conference where great content and instructional design were so well integrated.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. The kind of food that nourishes the mind and body, and is foundational to growth and many other critical human needs, like education, housing, jobs, and transportation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. 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. The Sun Sets on 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

This took some time, but the ability to stretch my visual thinking muscles was worth it. I know understand the process and it took less time the second time it did, and even less the third. From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw. Better Method: Create Visualizations of Important Data and Pull Together On One Slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Maura Thomas , a speaker and trainer on productivity for nonprofits and author of Personal Productivity Secrets , explains personal productivity is not time management, a 20th century idea that has outlived its usefulness in a world of email and social networks. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. The second time we responded with yes, but.

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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. If your LMS doesn’t make it easy for your association to keep up with this evolution, you’ll quickly fall behind the times. Complicated Accreditation Reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs. Perhaps because some people feel guilty about practicing self-care or there are unspoken rules that if you take time for yourself you are not serious about work. It means changing the way we think about self-care in the first place.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Some Internet People strike the flint every time. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And that’s why it’s critical that all those young geeks have the best, geekiest time that ever they had because happy, fulfilled Campuseros translates into positive brand identification for Movistar, Microsoft, The Mexican government, Ibm, HP, Asus, Nokia, Motorola, Nec, Opera, Noiselab, Volaris, Cisco, Oracle, Zte.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. Also, if you jot down a priority list the day before, you can get to work in the morning without wasting time.

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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. However, it shouldn’t be. However, budgets for planning are often overlooked.

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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. However, it shouldn’t be. However, budgets for planning are often overlooked.

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

ways to bring in fundraising dollars and engage supporters is the time-tested fundraising event. If you’ve got event fundraising on the brain, you’ve come to the right post. Set a date and time for your fundraising event. Determine your fundraising event goals. Select the right type of fundraising event.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

From Sabrina Walker Hernandez, Founder of Supporting World Hope and consultant, coach, facilitator, and bestselling author. When a donor reads your year-end appeal, their brain is working fast to answer this question: “Is this for me?” Give your creatives the time they really need to serve you well.

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. This will reveal what your audience is passionate about and willing to devote their time and money to supporting. Conduct A/B testing. Use colors intentionally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. We need to make the time to blog after hours. Doing a blog involves additional time and energy and some of us won't have this time available. What is Web 2.0

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nice to see a full room, especially and during such a busy and hectic time of year. But most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in during the session we’re going to save some time for Q&A at the end. And then five is to dedicate time for continuous learning and growth.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

When was the last time you received a handwritten letter ? The found­ing administration put little time or effort into the written word, and it showed. The skill of writing should be toward the top of every job description you post, including those for part-time positions. Case Study: The lost art of writing. That won’t cut it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A, and like Kishshana said a minute ago, we’d love to hear from you. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. Steven: All the time. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. So use the chat, the Q&A.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

I think most of you are in afternoon time but, if you’re watching from somewhere else, I hope you’re having a good day. We’re going to try and save a little bit of time at the end for Q&A. Writes all the time for lots of different people, not just Bloomerang. Claire: Absolutely. Steven: All right, cool.

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