Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

You can make it fun to put down your phone using the Forest app (better than locking it in a closet. Turn Off the Damn Screen and Go For A Walk: Sitting in front of a screen for too long can cause eye strain, neck problems, and other pain. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. Apps like Moment can help you monitor.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2019

Other times it’s just fun stuff: parties, cocktail hours, yoga (yeah, we actually do this at Cause Camp). Yes, most conferences will make their presentations available after they’re over, but taking notes puts the info in your brain without having to rewatch or relisten to content. However, it still creates the problem of retainment.

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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? Karen Bloom, the CEO at Project Kesher, saves up problems that her staff is trying to address and bundles into a weekly problem solving walking meeting. Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy. Planning and Preparation.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). The event format is a lot of fun. Don’t believe me? Wednesday, August 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. Also, if I’m on calls, I do them while walking around.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Being able to roll with the punches and problem-solve on the fly takes organizations from short-term to the long-haul. This kept it in the front of our brains and our culture has been growing ever since. The “fun stuff” can help with your culture, but it’s not strong enough to serve as a foundation for it.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 2, 2023

Your time study may show you some similar problems or work habits that you can change, too. And if you don’t really like being on the phone, you can get those pesky calls done and out of the way, freeing up brain power for the rest of the day. It’s less overwhelming and gives us a chance to reward our brains with a dopamine snack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

Talking about educational games, he discusses the way that "educational" is always pitted against "fun," as if all games must have the primary objective of providing enjoyment. The problem is that it's very hard to separate the expectations we have--about what games or comics are--from the blank slate potential of the media.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas just finished up on January 10 th so we thought we’d call out some of the products and trends that we hope are fun and interesting to nonprofit techies. It identifies any problems with a runner’s form.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

After sitting the problem, we re-framed the question as : “How can we shift mindsets (org/ind) around self care so that stakeholders (staff/leadership/board) believe it serves the organization’s mission? Scarcity captures the mind. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I've been having a lot of fun researching some metaphors for the future and of course, I went straight to the Jetsons. The fun part is figuring out how to effectively deliver a 3D presentation in a 3D space. Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

This’ll be a fun one. . This is kind of fun for you, I imagine, Lindsay, because you’re usually in my shoes listening to a guest speaker, but … – [Lindsay] I am. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. What was the problem last time? . Thanks for being here. I’m Steven. I love that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 17, 2009

In her review of Brown's book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul , Liz Massey of Creative Liberty relays an anecdote from Brown's book about the connection between play and innovation " Play juices our problem-solving abilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. Make It Fun, Celebrate. I believe strongly that professional learning can be fun and it can be more effective that way.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

You could chalk it up to hereditary defects, but I suspect there are a lot more people out there with this same problem. This is a problem specific to games, which have a predefined, consistent set of rules. Addictive games allow us to wallow in skills we already have, to set our brains aside awhile and just do. This isn't easy.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. ” And here’s my number one favorite one because I see perfectionism is a huge problem in major gift fundraising. I have seen this firsthand because we have a big problem with perfectionism in major gifts. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. You've created two very interesting products, The Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit and The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. You've also written and created the Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book. How does it work?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. ” And here’s my number one favorite one because I see perfectionism is a huge problem in major gift fundraising. I have seen this firsthand because we have a big problem with perfectionism in major gifts. Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

Whether it's an online game like Signtific , a tutoring center like 826 Valencia , or an educational event like Living Library , my engineer brain wants to figure out what makes these innovative projects tick and then tinker with those design lessons in my own work. There's a whole section of this blog called Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So if you identify with this, no problem, but we’re going to talk about it a little bit today, and what it looks like to build true win-win partnerships. But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. No problem.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So if you identify with this, no problem, but we’re going to talk about it a little bit today, and what it looks like to build true win-win partnerships. But we’re going to start with something just a little fun. Actually, the whole thing is going to be fun. We need to have a little bit of fun. No problem.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So if you get interrupted, or you have to bounce early, no problem. ” If you’re not moving for the right reasons, it’s a problem because moving is expensive, it’s time-consuming, and it takes a lot of brainpower. Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. We’ve got problems here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have to take risks and experiment in order to innovate because we’re solving some of the world’s most complex unsolved problems. And you have to always keep your impact growing, scaling activities in balance with your capacity, because, you know, it’s no fun. . Often, they turn into problems.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

You’d love them to join you because the event is going to be a lot of fun (and, by the way, it’s for a good cause). However, there’s a potential problem here: What they’d be buying would be the experience itself, as opposed to buying in to the organization’s mission, vision, and values. . What do they get for their $500 ticket?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. But the problem is that even when we aren't being chased, or in any danger at all, fear is still a mind-killer.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Tell them how donating to your campaign will help the protagonist solve their problem. Simplify fundraising forms A common problem nonprofits face when they start raising money online is donation form abandonment.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so fundamentally, it’s you care about this cause because of what you’ve already done in the community, you’ve met some of the people that we felt will inspire others to give, and you’ll solve our community problems or kind of summarizing this. . Harvey: You got a gun problem in America, I think. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 3, 2012

The Amygdala is a small part of your brain that is the center of emotions. It's part of what is often called the "Reptilian Brain" because it's very primitive, and has been around for a long time. But the problem is that even when we aren't being chased, or in any danger at all, fear is still a mind-killer.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . There’s also paying attention in a fun, different way. So it’s about making it easy and fun to do the work that we know we have to do, and that is to keep our community engaged. It’s no problem. Must do number five.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Check out Brain Tumor Network’s successful peer-to-peer campaign that was created through Qgiv: Social media: Try encouraging your supporters to share their fundraising pages on their personal social media accounts to get more donations. ( We also provide you with personal fundraising dashboards for your participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. Crowd Creation: Crowds have creativity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

At Project Kesher, Karen understands the restorative qualities of a walk in the woods and how it can make your work more productive, even more fun. Says Karen, “What happens is that if we are sitting in a staff meeting and try to tackle a problem, I get them to stop and I say, let’s put this on our hiking meeting agenda.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Virtual concert A livestreamed concert can bring all the fun of a summer concert to your supporters, without the heat, bugs, and dust! When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Tell them how donating to your campaign will help the protagonist solve their problem.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Tell us how the weather is, what your organization does, anything fun you want to tell us. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. No problem.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Unfortunately, a board that is out-of-step with current business trends is like a carbon monoxide leak—a silent problem that can easily be fatal. There is a welcome post-pandemic trend to make demographic diversity a top priority and to think of the board as a brain trust that represents the members’ boldest ideas and vision.

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