Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It helps center and refocus our brains which is important for learning. Above all, silence facilitates clear and creative thinking and quiets negative thoughts. It works, in part, because your brain doesn’t know the difference between the actual event or the visualization.

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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

JULY 16, 2019

When I facilitate staff retreats or workshop on wellbeing in the workplace based on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , we do some reflective exercises, including taking the nonprofit burnout assessment , identifying stress triggers and reactions before creating a self-care plan and addressing cultural norms. How do you deal with deadline stress?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

In Finland, classroom time incorporates “brain breaks” after 50 minutes when one’s natural focus and energy begins to wane. Taking brain breaks is an important work skill as well. And, it pays off as students perform better on educational tests than their peers in other European countries.

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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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. As a facilitator, you have to watch the participants body language and look for the “slump,” and if you notice people getting tired, interject some movement. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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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

MAY 1, 2014

The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. “ In Silicon Valley,Steve Jobs was famous for it. Henry David Thoreau said famously, “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.”

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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. Research shows that interactive content earns more engagement and twice as many conversions as static content. Tell compelling stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Designing and delivering a training to a nonprofit audience is not about extreme content delivery or putting together a PowerPoint and answering questions. If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I love all aspects instructional design and facilitation , but being a good trainer also means being a good content curator and resource librarian. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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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

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. As, incorporating secondary research is part of the process.

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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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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

MARCH 31, 2014

Another nonprofit furthering research behind games and learning is the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! Many of the game-making and research leaders mentioned above will present at the Festival, such as Dr.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2014

Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. 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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 18, 2018

To eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research: to provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.”. Above is the mission of the Alzheimer's Association, but in what capacity do I serve that supports this mission?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 21, 2018

To eliminate Alzheimer’s disease through the advancement of research: to provide and enhance care and support for all affected, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.”. Above is the mission of the Alzheimer's Association, but in what capacity do I serve that supports this mission?

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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. Research shows that staff often resist using multiple services, often because they don’t want to open one more window on their computer or launch one more app on their mobile device.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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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

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 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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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. It prompted research and reading to find some ideas to test out on myself before using it in the leadership development program.

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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. Research shows that walking boosts creativity and cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements. Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Four good things about this kind of failure: It confirmed that there was a difference in visitor response to different facilitated activities. Since it was just one of four prototypes, it didn't feel like our time was wasted; the failure helped us sort out what was working and what wasn't.

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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. Audience research is key to any effective marketing campaign. Note the strategies used in each example that may also appeal to your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Some sort of research ??? People generally know what it is that they SHOULD be doing, but what they ACTUALLY do is often related to things beyond the rational side of their brain. Outside of blogs, I think that anything that facilitates word of mouth can be very effective. t spend much time online beyond checking their e-mail.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage. This frees up your to-do list—and brain space—to focus on important tasks that improve your grantee experience.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are annual reports, grant applications, website pages, blogs, appeal letters, policy docu­ments, procedure manuals, thank you notes, press releases, program reports, research papers, legal documents, advertising copy, board orientation documents, promotional material, and much more.

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