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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. His framework above, “The Healthy Mind Platter” describes the balance of different brain activities you need to incorporate into your life to be balanced.

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Flexible Space: The Secret To Designing Powerful Training

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Wisdom 2.0: Living Consciously In A Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Chris Sacca quipped that he usually attends technology conference where most people in the audience are buried in their smart phones or laptops and that this conference was the one where felt the mostly everyone was paying attention to him.

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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. We arranged for wifi in the room and asked participants to bring their laptops). The Power of Social Learning: Online and Offline . Somewhat skeptical about the value of social media.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. And then laptop because, you know, work, right? What about this one?