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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

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Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. In a normal year, I make it to the highest level on my airline frequent flyer program, in part, due to many long-haul international flights.

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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I will continue to write about and teach workshops on digital strategy.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. You may feel at first this is an “extra” step or unnecessary.

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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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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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

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" 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. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Games teach this.

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