Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. (In Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. (In Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike.

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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. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

These exercises can calm you and have the added benefit of restoring focus and productivity. It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. You can practice these exercises alone or with your team.

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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. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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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. I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity. Horwath : I define strategic as possessing insight that leads to advantage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging. What is personal productivity? Personal Productivity Mindsets. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I really enjoy teaching in different cultural contexts and observing different learning styles and approaches to working for a nonprofit. How many of us pay attention to the relationship between physical space and our productivity ? Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well.

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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. If you design your work flow as a team so it aligns with everyone’s natural ultradian rhythms, it might make everyone productive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Now that we have close to two-years of zoom meetings under our belts, we are discovering that people are exhausted from video conference meetings – and engagement (and productivity) may be plumeeting. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. And it may have implications for our health. “In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). I’ll be doing a Guidestar Webinar on health and productive meetings on Feb. ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate!

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now that we have close to two-years of Zoom meetings under our belts, we are discovering that people are exhausted from video conference meetings – and engagement (and productivity) may be plummeting. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. And it may have implications for our health. “In

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

One of the most important steps in building a productive blogging strategy is creating content that engages and appeals to your audience. 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.

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Classy

MAY 3, 2021

Running swag and discounts to premium running products. 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.

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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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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate! The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. When I mentioned this to a colleague, he asked me “How the heck do you make the time to do this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity.

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AccelEvents

JANUARY 30, 2022

You may want to get more customers, grow a brand awareness campaign, or promote a product launch. While some events put out a high production value, live streaming your event can be really easy. . Attract the right audiences—those that are interested in your product or service. They will also feel more connected with your brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Sound familiar?

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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 2, 2015

I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. 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. Year in Review.

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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? Wondering how to organize and facilitate a meeting where everyone is on their feet instead of their devices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. I got so much out of last year's content that I jumped at the opportunity to help design and facilitate sessions this year with an amazing group of brilliant people.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Sit in a circle and share ideas and resources, while the "presenters" are facilitators instead of providers of one-way brain dumps via PowerPoint. I got so much out of last year's content that I jumped at the opportunity to help design and facilitate sessions this year with an amazing group of brilliant people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It’s for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives. Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness. If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They want their brains to matter. Daniel Ben-Horin is the founder and co-CEO of TechSoup Global, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit technology product philanthropy service which connects 45 donating partners (including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, and Adobe) to nonprofits and NGOs in 36 countries, providing products and services valued at more than US$2.6

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Many sub-par CME LMSs fail to address this wide range of productivity, instead only logging information completed within their own systems. 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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. The old “people don’t want x, they want y” declaration by an oblivious product manager or development team is a long-standing bugaboo against which ideas like user personas, co-created content, and design thinking have fought back. as if that is what everyone needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Google recognizes that most people's work days are filled with distractions and that there is perhaps one hour a day when people are at their peak productivity. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. Ensure the products you sell are high quality by ordering several for yourself before marketing the opportunity to your supporters. Follow these steps to help you choose the right solution for your organization.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And we have less donors than we’ve had before but the sizes of the gifts from those donors have been increasing, which is why giving overall has still not varied from about 2% of gross domestic product for as long as they’ve been measuring this since World War 2. And this is something that legacy giving can offer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. Research Summary: Graff, L.

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