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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers. In 2013, keep these two words at the forefront of your mind.

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Gratitude: 2016’s Word of the Year

Connection Cafe

That’s what was on my mind as I made my way through the final week of 2015, with my mind clear, rested from the break but not yet ready to gear up for a return to work. The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good , published almost exactly a year ago, was written by Donald W. You could say it was a time for clarity.

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How Documentaries Engage Entirely New Audiences For Maximum Impact

Association TV

Our brains share a lot of similarities, except for the center that controls compassion, empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, and interpersonal experience — that’s way more developed in orcas. The orca is alive today because it communicates, eats and socializes with other orcas, just like us. But it’s more than that.

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How Documentaries Engage Entirely New Audiences For Maximum Impact

Association TV

Our brains share a lot of similarities, except for the center that controls compassion, empathy, perception, motor control, self-awareness, and interpersonal experience — that’s way more developed in orcas. The orca is alive today because it communicates, eats and socializes with other orcas, just like us. But it’s more than that.

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How to Improve Your Website’s Emotional Appeals: 5 Tips

Pamela Grow

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. The main headline is “Help Save Lives in Times of Emergency!” Note the strategies used in each example that may also appeal to your audience. Tell compelling stories.

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Simple Ways to Analyze Nonprofit Email Performance

Connection Cafe

When analyzing your email data, be sure to keep the ask in mind. . If you’re a classic right-brainer, this headline could send you into a cold sweat. Keep shivering, but also keep reading, because I’m going to show you two simple math tricks that will help you add a little left-brain to your portfolio of expertise. .

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States. It’s how my brain works. And I bet if you shoot her a quick note, she won’t mind that at all. And you read my mind on the retreats thing because I was thinking about orientation as well. Steven: I love it.