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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter? But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. We all have our own way of doing things, but sometimes our work outgrows our organization methods.

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While it is hard to measure actual attention spans, there is research that people pay closest attention during the first 10-18 minutes of lecture – and then their minds wander. I hope that participants took away from our session, if nothing else, that content curation requires the human brain, as Robin Good points out.

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How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Trainings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also keep in mind dips in the circadian rhythms for humans that have impact on their ability to pay attention and learn – and I design different types of activities accordingly. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going.

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I also was a guest lecturer for a Berkeley MBA Class on networks. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

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. . The next best way to actually create that touchpoint of engagement is by listening and opening your mind. . Where are they helpful?

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Great reads from around the web on August 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Blog | design mind – "Openness is the mega-trend for innovation in the 21st century, and it remains the topic du jour for businesses of all kinds. You can read 10 books about it or listen to someone lecture about it all day, but how do you really start learning to ride a bicycle? You get on. And you fall.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. So just keep that in mind. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. I mean, do I have to stress why do we need this case for consistent, clean data?