Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

There are serious health risks to a sedentary work style, but it also impacts our minds as well. Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. Rember to review and refine these tasks, Monitor the AI’s performance, and fine-tune instructions as needed to improve results. Adjust prompt instructions or model as needed. could help.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Remember, a well-designed website that seamlessly incorporates social media acts as a powerful catalyst for advancing the impact of your nonprofit organization. Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! Social Impact Through Digital Games.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Understanding the foundation of what makes the instructional design so effective, can go a long way in transitioning some of your organizational learnings over to a digital medium. The meaning of this one term is now obtainable via most learning types; if not just written in a way that is indeed more impactful to your learning base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Opening Acts executive director then shared a list of ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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 wrote many posts on instructional design for nonprofit training , including this wrap up post from our NTEN NTC session on teaching and learning for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. These definitions have informed the curriculum, instructional design, peer learning design, and how we will measure and learn along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2015

Last week I attended the DoGoodData Conference in Chicago where I learned an incredible amount about the human side of data – themes like data visualization, data informed culture, using data for impact, and more.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

These reports need to include: Information about specific activities, including the date of accredited activities, hours of instruction, type of activity, learners that completed the activity, and much more. If that revenue is on the decline, the experiences you’ll be able to provide for members will be directly impacted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Photo by Spike 55151 I read recently that the reason for "senior moments" - you know when you can't quite recall someone's name in an instant - is because the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information.     Here's why. 

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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

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. He had us walk around the room following different instructions and then try to find two people and create a triangle. He first dispelled the myth that improvisation is only about stand up comedy and telling jokes. He asked us to define it. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

We’ve seen everything from completely fresh “Choose Your Own Adventure” type fundraisers to new takes on classic school events that combine typical school events like spelling bees, show and tell, brain bowls, and talent shows with fundraising.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Plus, if an organization isn’t crystal clear about what it’s trying to achieve, how to measure success, and how to communicate its impact, it’s going to be a real challenge to keep the support coming in. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

This is because our brains process them almost instantly. Tailor your emails to include captivating narratives that share the stories behind the auction items or the impact of the funds raised. However, many guests are drawn to attend because they want to contribute to your impact. Incorporate compelling visuals. Social media.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

She argued that reflection may be even more important than evaluation in the cycle of creating impact through your work. If you are writing to have industry impact, you should care about the number of people who link to you. They are the most obvious way that you can see that all of your hard work has had impact on someone.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Show the impact your donors are having. Emphasize your gratitude for their past support and use impact statements to convince them that their help is critical at this moment in the calendar year. After all, with the opportunity to double their impact, donors will be excited to make their contributions go further.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Looking back, I believe one of the important factors that catapulted SVAS to national prominence, and one of the most understated, was SVAS’ ability to write and publish all types of powerful and compelling material about our amazing programs and the impact we were having on people’s lives. Pretty good, but bland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

" I also sensed a kindred spirit who is interested in how technology impacts what's inbetween the keyboard and the chair. The way that it all made my brain team with information like surfing the web manually for text information never could made it obvious to me that I needed to tell as many other people about it as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Some Quick Reflections on Instruction. I asked the students what else does that? I did not eat chocolate.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Your website’s load speed has a major impact on your conversion rates. To conduct an effective experiment and understand which changes actually made a difference, keep these best practices in mind: Only change one page element at a time, or you won’t be able to isolate the most impactful changes. Set quality standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. I don’t do this as a work avoidance behavior (well, maybe a few times), but it helps me shift my brain and take a small break that replenishes my energy. Two important tips. Thank you.

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