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DECEMBER 5, 2011

Every person I talk to seems to have social media on the brain. Twitter is the second most popular, used by 57% of organizations, with YouTube, LinkedIn and Flickr rounding out the top five. And large online publications like Mashable are even covering social media for social good. 2) Lack of staffing. 3) Lack of focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. I overheard comments like: “my brain is in overdrive,” “I can’t wait to try this in my work,” and “I wish the conference were longer.” Guest post by Kate Wing. We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. 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 wish you a very happy and healthy 2019!

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2014

When you allow co-workers and technology to constantly interrupt you, your brain has to work much harder to get back on task and you lose a great deal of momentum. Image 1: toolstop (Flickr / Creative Commons ). Image 2: Robert Banh (Flickr / Creative Commons). Office and Productivity staff Running Your Organization'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Helokee. He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Seek outsider knowledge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Still, you have to get stuff done. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Here’s their storytelling collection tool. They’re using software – called sensemaker – to see patterns in the data that is far too much for human brains to summarize. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

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. 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. Write a letter to yourself.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2011

If you post it on your blog, or Flickr, please share your link in the comments. at the Writing Salon, Berkeley, CA August 5: The Write Brain - Essential Blog Content Development Workshop at BlogHer '11, San Diego, CA Share. I'm partial to Glitter Mod Podge myself (: I'd love to see your Juicy Blogging Vision Board. Come blog with me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

" This is how you might be envisioning your the future for your organization's social web presence and wrap your brains around Open Social. A cool app created with the Flickr API that is twitter on flickr. Notes from DigitalPodcast and analysis/notes from Jeremiah Owyang. View | Upload your own.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2011

flickr: haglundc A community manager’s job is built on a foundation of distractions. Scheduling your day will save your brain from the oh-so-common “what was I just tweeting about?” And did you see that ice cream vendor over there?

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Flickr: Sean Dreilinger. Chi has been the brains behind the development and implementation of a number of successful mobile marketing campaigns, including an awareness building campaign for the Bowery Mission of NYC. As most of you know, that time is already upon us. Well, almost. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

flickr photo courtesy of racoles Note from Beth: This week I've been researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and invited guest blog posts on this topic. 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements by Brains on Fire (pdf). Movements are part of the evangelist vocabulary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Flickr Photo by Lynn Friedman. 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. All that sitting is not good for your health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Flickr Photo by Jungle Boy. There is an excellent section on Information Overload , but my brain is too full at the moment to read it. Teach42 has captured a hilarious cartoon about digital natives, a term coined by Marc Prensky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

Flickr Photo by udithawix. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2009

SxSWNP Flickr Cred: wharman Peter Campbell changed web hosts and has some good advice about the process. Fellow NTEN members Green America (formerly Coop America) helped guide Peter to a wind-powered provider. Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer host a weekly NTEN Office Hour they call "NTEN Water Cooler Chat", every Thursday at 3pm ET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. In thinking about the evolution of social networks and having been deeply steeped in Object-Based Social Networks like those on flickr and, of course, the NpTech Tag, I am wondering about methods for aggregating resources discovered via Facebook from friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2005

Visual learners/thinks should take a look at these flickr photos ) And, speaking of explaining wikis, Marshall Kirkpatrick will be doing just that over at a TechSoup Online Event beginning next week, along with star studded cast of nonprofit Web 2.0ers. old style wiki Originally uploaded by teemow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo by Minifig If you're thinking about how to streamline using Twitter, Vladis Krebs offers excellent advice in " So Many People, So Little Time." We don't have the time or brain cells for that. He recommends using social network theory to design your Twitter following strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs. Scarcity is more than just the displeasure of having very little.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Photo in flickr - Letting Go. I got about 3 slides in when I realized that my brain no longer operates that way. I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." I opted for the wiki-presentation method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Pitel. According to Seth Godin's I'm liveblogging this: "The act of writing things down triggers different areas of our brain, it focuses attention, it makes it easier to remember things." The team is being coordinated by Britt Bravo , who must be the most organized person on the planet!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. More information here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter. The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2007

Lynetter Flickr. This flickr photo made me hit the pause button because of the date, not the content. It was a late afternoon session and I was brain dead. That quote comes from a speech that Murdoch gave over two years ago. " and analyzing the evolving thinking about technology adoption issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Futurist Raymond Kurzweil envisions a time when three-dimensional molecular microprocessors will be commonly implanted in our brains for the purpose of intelligence and physical amplification. Images: Courtesy of Roger Smith and /tiian via Creative Commons on Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

The idea of reciprocity is important -- I also didn't want to ask too many people that I hadn't already given a few pro bono minutes of my brain time in the past -- answering a friendly email request or whatever. I've accumulated more LinkedIn contacts than flickr contacts ). I fired off about 100 requests via the LinkedIn interface.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

Our brains our packed with ideas and inspiration for how to do our jobs better, our social networks are a little richer because of the new relationships we have forged, and our hearts are full with the comradeship of being with so many people that share our passion and perspective for the role of technology in work promoting the social good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Her brain is constantly at work dreaming up new campaigns, and rather than shying away from being different and taking risks, she embraces it. Creativity is what makes exceptional social media campaigns stand out from the rest. Please get training! For all the social good it can do, social media does have a downside.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Apparently, it takes 21 days of repetitive activity for your brain to accept new behavior as a habit. Flickr Photo of Aztec Calendar at the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City uploaded by Michael McCarty. Juggling Priorities at Small Staff Organizations by Lori Halley of Wild Apricot " Take the time to change your behavior.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. system, your image becomes part of a Flickr stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I I think there's a portion of ppl in our org who are "cloud" people, but upper mgmt still resists it, hence a clash.". We use google docs, chat, spreadsheets etc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This helpful slide broke down some of the tools into families, making it easy to decide which tools make the most sense based on your aims: For static visual storytelling, some tools include Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, and Tumblr. If you want to make your story to pop with data, try infographics and maps. All sound a little science fiction?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Flickr photo from AussieGal. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "BY" license. m reading and two or three pieces of content flow up from my network that begin to click together in my brain like magnets, making connections. Flickr photo by Markopolos - CC "by" License. Flickr photo from Markopolos.

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