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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions. Don’t waste valuable brain power. The right team feeds off the energy of the group.

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It gave me some reflection time away from the daily fast-paced, always moving forward world of social media. It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained.

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I did this in real-time as part of my presentation by highlight a e-book from Curata called “Feeding the Content Beast” with a foreword by Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the co-author of “Content Rules.” ” Content'

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Fundraising Planning Guide, Calendar, Worksheet, + Template

CauseVox

We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. However, this goal should be the one that all the other smaller goals feed into. Keep it concise, it doesn’t need to be long.

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Tagging and Communities of Practice - Reflections from KM

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Dorine is currently involved a pilot project for KM4DEV where a community of practice is collaborating on sharing delicious feeds. She gave me some very rich reflections as a reply in the comments. Can anyone use this tag or do we want to create a special feed/account to provide filtered information? (BK: e-collaboration???

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Mastering the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. When we are engaged in what we think is multitasking, what we’re really doing is we’re forcing the brain to switch back and forth really rapidly and creating feelings of anxiety and stress in our physical body. So you give money and volunteer.

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One Thing Most Nonprofits Stink at (Donor Retention) and How You Can Change It in 2019

Connection Cafe

First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. This blog post was originally published in 2014, but has been updated to reflect the most updated charitable giving data and trends. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates. Third, behave accordingly!