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Step-by-Step Guide: Nonprofit Walking Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy. Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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Conscious Computing: 7 Apps and Tips That Help You Focus, Reduce Stress, and Get Work Done

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” ” But what if there was a way to use online tools, mobile apps, and software that helped lengthen our attention spans and replace information overload with a sense of mindfulness?

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Healthy and Productive Meetings: Free Guidestar Webinar on Feb. 12th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. Also, if I’m on calls, I do them while walking around.

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Nonprofit Technology News for January 2014

Tech Soup

The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure. It identifies any problems with a runner’s form. It was by most accounts a good show with lots of weird stuff on display. Anything we missed?

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are recording the calls so those that face electricity/connectivity problems can download it as a podcast and listen to the recordings later – and view slides/ notes. I selected the latter because all participants are on Facebook and can access it on their mobile phones. The power of peer knowledge at work!

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Game Friday: Do Games Have to Be Fun To Be Good?

Museum 2.0

He cites editorial-style newsgames , workplace training games, and casual mobile games as breaking into both new markets and new expectations of the concepts and content that video games can express. Mobile casual games, played by commuters, could arguably be considered "time fillers." Supposedly it improves your brain function.

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