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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To assess and reflect on how we use information effectively to make decisions or own patterns of distraction online. To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work.

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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

Thier ideas, unique points of view, and diverse talents provide us with critical information and expertise, and greatly enhance our program activities. Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities.

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How to Read the Minds of Your Donors

NonProfit Hub

The ability to read minds. What if I told you that you can enter the minds of your donors without even meeting them? It’s important not to overwhelm your donors with messages and asks, but it’s also important to gather information from them. The post How to Read the Minds of Your Donors appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. April 13, 2013 – 8:30-10:00.

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Do Negativity And Alarm Really Raise More Funds?

Bloomerang

Does negativity and alarm really raise funds?” —John, CEO of a civic education nonprofit Dear John, This is a top-of-mind question for many fundraising professionals. Science says: We’re wired for negative Sadly, our brains are wired to respond to negative messages. Negative events impact our brains more than positive events.

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AI For Good: How 3 Nonprofits Grew Their Impact With Machine Learning

Global Giving

Have you exchanged data with like-minded organizations to grow your impact? They use this information to identify loans that aren’t getting as much attention and promote them on their platform to increase their visibility. The UCSF Brain and Spinal Injury Center improves treatment guidelines using insights from machine learning.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

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Don’t waste valuable brain power. Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. Although this explanation sounds more like it belongs in the classroom than the office, my takeaway is the focus on uniquely human skills. Set the example by modeling the behavior you would like to see.

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