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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops , I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” We are asked to master ever evolving technologies. See, a movement compels someone to make your cause a part of their life, not just their Facebook profile. Both posts influenced this speech.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For my non-web, non-technical managers who needed to see something more than my enthusiasm for technology. I am still in the process of convincing our board and the managers that we need to be more responsive, but this requires much more than technology. for instance, but why should my managers? Concrete examples were needed.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

You can (and there is - the unparalleled Museum of Jurassic Technology ). In the Museum of Jurassic Technology, you feel as though you are in a funhouse. The introductory label talks about "strangeness, mystery, and oddity" and comments that, "when things are strange, the brain sends out feelers for meaning."

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. If life is a chessboard, content is still king. I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world? how would that work?

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Why Doesn't Anyone Comment on Your Blog?

Museum 2.0

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. Consider Beth Kanter's blog about non-profits and technology , which is read by about 25,000 people per month. Blogging can be a wonderful way to take time out from your life to reflect, even if no one reads it. it gets me excited.

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