Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. The interview went so well that I was offered a full-time web developer position on the spot. If you’re interested in the topic, please vote.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness. Like meditation, mindful use of social media begins with noticing when your attention has wandered, and then gently bringing it back to focus on your highest priority – like training a puppy. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

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. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. He clearly identifies types of tasks: planning (prep to do the task), reading, production (writing), interviews, email, and commenting. Brain Fitness. There is the mind-body connection which boils down to taking care of yourself.

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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. This allows us to clear our minds and focus on the present moment. GTD is a five-step process: Capture : Capture everything that comes into your mind, whether it’s a task, an idea, or a thought. So why wait?

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

This doesn’t mean that you should talk down to your donors or that they’re unintelligent: it just means that they’re probably using their brain power for other things and quickly skimming emails and mailers. Through donating to a nonprofit, your supporters get to connect with other like-minded people all striving towards a shared cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 10, 2010

Last night I had dinner at Cafe Gratitude with Jennifer Lee , creator of the Right Brain Business Plan and Kimberly Wilson , the creator of the eco-fashion line, TranquiliT. She also sells a Right Brain Business Plan e-book. They're also two of my three co-collaborators on the creative women entrepreneurs retreat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. Incorporate a mindfulness routine in the morning before you check your phone: Janet Fouts, Author of Mindful Marketing , says “I’ve weaned myself off checking my phone after 10 pm and I rarely need an alarm clock so no excuse there. I don’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

Mindful or Mindfull Social Media? This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. I had the pleasure of designing this session with Will Coley – who interviewed the best content curators in the world and get them share their best practices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. In his book, Parr interviews experts in the field of psychology and cognition to examine what it takes to build this “bonfire of attention,” and presents a framework about the 7 “captivation triggers” of attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

” We’ve been researching and interviewing nonprofit leaders about self-care. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. We are excited about what we are learning and have pitched a session at Wisdom 2.0 to share it! I don’t.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds. You can read a transcript of my interview with Zainab Salbi here. You can read a transcript of my interview with Lisa Witter here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. Waste of time , I would think to myself.

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APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? Be mindful not to put the concept of overworking on a pedestal. Get Registered Now for Free.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I started yoga about, you know, from a really early age, my family introduced me to mindfulness and meditation, even though you would never guess it because they don’t look like typical hippies. . I just had an interview with one of my guests very recently, and in the outtake I said, you know, “How was this interview for you?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For the 40 days leading up to my birthday, I picked one thing to do each day that engaged my body, mind, heart and soul: moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. Moving: I spend a lot of time sitting at the computer each day, which is unhealthy on so many levels, so I made a commitment to move in some way every day. No larger purpose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. To get it ‘right’ is another thing - but there are lessons learned from Twestival that can carry over to even the smallest of causes. .

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

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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JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. Getting to Work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. Get to Work.

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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

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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Association TV

JANUARY 25, 2022

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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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. Below is the edited transcript from my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jennifer Lee from January 22, 2009. Sometimes there are other players that are in action in your head, or in your mind. How does it work?

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Pamela Grow

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research has found that emotion-based storytelling in communications can trigger positive reactions through the release of brain chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Make your storytelling more emotional by using the following techniques: Include direct quotes or video interviews of your story’s protagonists. Tell compelling stories.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. Newspaper columnists and talk show hosts called for interviews after reading our poignant op-ed pieces. If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

This goal can be simple, but it needs to be something that moves your nonprofit forward — like meeting someone who can be a corporate sponsor for your program, interviewing a potential volunteer, writing a fresh thank-you letter to use this month, or calling a donor to say thanks. YOU decide what happens (or doesn’t happen) each day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. Staff Interviews. Clients Interviews. Communicating the results. Return on Insight: Listen, Learn, Adapt. Staff Surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2006

" The term information overload made me think of Marshall's fabulous interview with Robin Good on netsquared: " Mastering Information Overload." Are these the early adopters of the Internet and whose brains have evolved along with the growth of electronic information and have superhuman prcocessing skills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. I think I noticed your interview with Marnie Webb, who I recognized from TechSoup.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 28, 2011

Actually I’ve found that in most cases people would rather you say no and then change your mind to yes then the other way around." Apparently, it takes 21 days of repetitive activity for your brain to accept new behavior as a habit. Ask for the interview well in advance. I've highlighted one tip from each post.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

In the edited transcript of my September 1st interview with co-author Lisa Witter for the Big Vision Podcast , she discusses how nonprofits can use four principles from the book, Care, Connect, Control, and Cultivate to get the word out about their cause. Again, it goes back to our brain science. It may be animal rights.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” I just did this interview for a podcast.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And so this car salesperson strategy always has our objective top of mind, even when we’re asking the funder questions about them. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” I just did this interview for a podcast. We feel really inauthentic.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Compelling images The human brain can process images as quickly as 13 milliseconds. However, keep in mind that a user-friendly CMS like WordPress makes it simple to add engaging content like quizzes and polls to your blog content. Let’s dive in! Visual content is easier to interpret and remember than long chunks of text.

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