Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

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! One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions. Has your nonprofit embraced games for social change?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your site map, data structure, and server security all play an important role in how search engines index your site and assess its relevance to various search topics. You can use a number of on-page SEO strategies to boost your site’s rankings , but any technical issues on your site will make it hard for you to reach the top.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

One that I like was created by Kristina Halvorson and her team at Brain Traffic , called the Content Strategy Quad: A simple way to look at this is by dividing the top and bottom quadrants. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. We have joked internally that Durfee’s tagline should be: Funding Failure Since 1960.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

In addition, I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers and am now an Adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute for International Studies (a graduate school of Middlebury College). I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

. (#11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. I was thinking more of internal challenges. I love it.

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Gyrus

JUNE 21, 2016

Simple, by structuring and solely acting upon a living brand strategy. When you think of brands like Coca-Cola or Walmart, there is a clearly defined color palette that tends to circle around in your brain. As a new marketing person, I have a unique opportunity to engage our users, potential clients, and cohorts in the industry.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) – The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. I was thinking more of internal challenges. . (#11NTCSocialCRM). I love it.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. This invaluable bunch works with NTEN to design core curriculum tracks, conference structure, and thematic focus. Susan Chavez, Nonprofit Social Media Consultant, Association of Junior Leagues International. Annie Lynsen, Marketing Director, Small Act.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. Once you have a vision and plan of how the reporting should come out of the system you can work backwards to determine the best structure and setup to use in QuickBooks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits. The staples of Oz – courage, heart, and brains – are a good start. Do we know what we want to learn? Not to mention the Munchkins and the flying monkeys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Both posts influenced this speech. And that is the crossroads. Get out now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

There are many other ways to structure the responsibilities of your first hire. It might be hard to look at these figures and to wrap your brain around how much money you need to raise to employ the staff you need. The key is to make sure your new hire meets your organization’s needs and moves your organization forward. . 20% a year?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. But we got it going anyway.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

How to Structure an Infographic for Your Nonprofit. Take this infographic from Compassion International : This infographic tells you everything you need to know about the differences sponsorship makes in a child’s life, and shows the research in interactive and creative ways. Ask for help.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

Whereas I'm taking the "make it as awesome as possible and they will pay attention and want to steal the ideas" approach, Peter is trying very deliberately to create a structure that supports participation from diverse museum professionals and museum venues from the very beginning. My model is the shining star. His is the virus.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Lost is one of the first shows that has been structured as a game. If we can take that addictive structure and mix in some education ideas - that's a powerful cocktail. They were presenting in Davos, Switzerland. What did happen?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts. It’s all very humbling.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

How do you structure your database? Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” Mallory: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” Steven, I don’t know if there are any questions.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each. It’s how my brain works. Because at the time, the team internally was really small. And I want to talk about an experience I had working with an advocacy organization. Very linear thinker over here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And the way the America’s Cup race works is it’s an international competition, happens every few years, and the winning team gets to set the rules for the next race. But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And perhaps, once you know the needs of your target population, you can figure out this is what we need internally. . Those tend to be a lot more structured and there has to be more concept refinement before submitting an application and cultivation with the program officer. There could be some internal. So check that out.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

And recently, for the last five years or so, I’ve really moved more into helping people communicate more effectively internally and interpersonally, because that’s where I saw the most need. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. And then structure is systems.

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