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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Watch what is trending online. Evaluate Expertise Who exactly are the members of your new brain trust and where will you find them? Make it Easy Once you’ve identified a prospect, make playing on your team an opportunity that’s easy, fun, and offers some kind of ROI. Do the Research Favorite playlists change quickly.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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How To Build Immunity To Burnout In The Workplace

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Have some fun. Then the brain, ever on a quest for both equilibrium and efficiency, noted the response’s effectiveness and will turn to it again the next time stress hits. Deployed enough times, the brain encodes this response as a habit, eventually creating an automatic, default response to stress – i.e., a Protective Pattern.

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Five Lies You Tell Yourself About Nonprofit Culture

NonProfit Hub

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. Fun should always come first. For your nonprofit, maybe fun is the frosting—but it doesn’t take the cake.

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The NMC Symposium for the Future: Prepping for Virtual Keynote about Nonprofits in 2020

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Nonprofit Technology News for January 2014

Tech Soup

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 was by most accounts a good show with lots of weird stuff on display.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The morning also includes sharing the principles of successful social media, a talk that I have been giving and refining over the past 5 years and changes with new trends and developments in social media. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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