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#Fakecommute: A Ritual for Work-Life Balance When You #WFH

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My walking ritual was featured in this Wall Street Journal article. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Your mind and body need these boundaries. This might be playing music, or it might be changing the lighting.

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Try Exercise Snacking for Improving #WFH Mental Health

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the first research studies published in the journal Diabetologia found that “dosing exercise as brief, intense ‘exercise snacks’ before main meals is a time-efficient and effective approach to improve glycaemic control in individuals with insulin resistance.”

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Meg Worden, Feed Me Darling : How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

We consider anything intended for public consumption to be “published,” so while our collection is very broad, we draw the line at correspondence or personal journals. Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A blog is more than a personal journal. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Keep in mind that the big one eats the little one. A mix of conversational marketing. Conversation is very important and the nature of Web 2.0. Niche content.

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How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. I ran into an old colleague at NTC , and it came up, because he had been thinking of contributing to the journal, but decided that he probably won’t, for reasons I will talk about.

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I look for patterns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" using the metaphor of an orchestra conductor and virtuoso orchestra musicians making music together. Since my formal education is in music ( studied flute ), I'm going to riff on Vicky's ideas because they reasonate with me. Vicky says that writing a blog, like music, is more than a single solitary note, but a composition.

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