Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. How Stuff Works: How Brain-computer Interfaces Work.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

But given the realities of today’s 24/7 world, you’re grappling with how to keep up, make a meaningful impact, and live a fulfilling life with so many things competing for your limited time, attention, and energy. It took me nearly coming face-to-face with a life-threatening health crisis to have this realization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. (In I call it my “To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.“

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2023

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. The Facts Of Business Life -- What Every Successful Business Owner Knows That You Don't. Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode. What's The Future Of Business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

But it shouldn’t consume your life to the point that you have no life. How to Avoid Fundraising Burnout The best way to stay clear of fundraising burnout and compassion fatigue is to maintain balance in your life so you can stay in front of them and prevent them from occurring in the first place. It’s the nature of the business.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

Technology for Good Gadgets – It’s All About Health and Fitness. 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. is a gadget that brings the Internet of Things into our everyday life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. What will the future 2020 be like?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a nonprofit technology consultant, I spend a lot of time talking with people about their systems, staffing, and business processes. Alan wasn’t trying to make life terrible for Barbara. Entrenched teams, separate technology, communication breakdowns, lots of assumptions, and years of unnecessary friction.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

After all, we live in the midst of information and technology overload! Is our brain changing as a result? Also, the symptoms have to have been causing significant difficulty in life for at least 6 month stresses. What are the main symptoms that technology is contributing to? And it is not going away anytime soon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Note from Beth: I’ve been presenting workshops on technology wellness and other ideas from the Happy Healthy Nonprofit. It does address a growing issue that will only continue as technology becomes more integrated into daily life. The ganglion cells then send signals directly to the circadian region of the brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 19, 2010

It’s an influx of information in my brain that I really don’t need. Most of the reason I named this blog “Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology&# is that I am very interested in the ethical and spiritual dimensions of technology in general, and nonprofit technology in particular.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. The Facts Of Business Life -- What Every Successful Business Owner Knows That You Don't. Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode. What's The Future Of Business?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If gaming and a higher purpose doesn’t work in curbing your addiction, then maybe try adding apps on your phone that can enrich your life versus wasting time. But technology addiction is only the tip of the iceberg, it is part of something much bigger. The app even partnered with Trees for the Future to help plant real trees.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

Finally, she serves on the board of directors for NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network). I like people, words, technology and telling the truth.” Developing deep, engaging, inspired and inspiring relationships with my nearest and dearest is one of the great joys of my life. You can follow Jocelyn on Twitter at @jocelynharmon. “I

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Byte Technology

APRIL 9, 2015

Mann is quick to point out that his approach isn’t directed so much towards the number of messages that plague our inboxes, bur rather the amount of time our brains spend dwelling there. As Mann notes, “It’s about how to reclaim your email, your attention, and your life. That ‘zero?’ Especially when you don’t want it to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Another way to take a break is a “Digital Detox,” a period of time when a person does not use technology, the Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress. I’ve found that it lights up different parts of my brain and helps think more creatively than starring at a screen or typing. Zentangle: Meditative Drawing.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It shouldn’t be surprising that a nonprofit focusing on closing the gender gap in technology has a beautifully-coded annual report built right into its website. Donate Life America. Donate Life America helps Americans easily register to be an organ donor. Full disclosure: Donate Life America is a client of Whole Whale.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The Wisdom 2.0 Then the person is welcomed back into the tribe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

With technology, you get what you pay for. WordPress files you want to save: Database – the brain and circulatory system of your site. Uploads – photos and documents that bring the theme to life. Delete them so nothing is stored on your website that might provide a way for hackers to get inside.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

13th, I’ll be doing a FREE Webinar for nonprofits hosted by Salesforce Foundation on “ Combatting Digital Distraction and Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. How does your nonprofit focus on technology wellness in your workplace? Image Source: 7able.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. For more on Robin's life, you can read the Publishers Weekly article. That's the Robin we all collectively know personally. The sister, the aunt, the friend, the mentor.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. Throughout countless different phases and stages of life as a human being, we know that things will always be changing. Technological change – new software and systems.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Overview Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. Taking a break from technology and the 24/7 news cycle is crucial. Your evenings and weekends should be reserved for your personal life. You should also make an effort to schedule content posts in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

When I signed up for her mailing list in the fall of 2010, I received a PDF of the first chapter of her book-in-progress with the working title, The Team: How to Live an Abundant Life by Healing Yourself and the World. All of us, at some level, can say that our life is our message. I'm on the Team. I bet you are too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals 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 include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I helped start Occupy Technology (which is sort of moribund at the moment.) We miss these, because the media doesn't cover this, and for many of us, our brains are more wired to dwell on the negative than on the positive. I've been to a few of the marches and actions, but otherwise not really involved. So maybe that's my role.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2011

I helped start Occupy Technology (which is sort of moribund at the moment.) We miss these, because the media doesn't cover this, and for many of us, our brains are more wired to dwell on the negative than on the positive. I've been to a few of the marches and actions, but otherwise not really involved. So maybe that's my role.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The Fletcher School & Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University. Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Her work enables NetHope members to be more effective and efficient through the use of technology . Academic Institutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. The Facts Of Business Life -- What Every Successful Business Owner Knows That You Don't. Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode. What's The Future Of Business?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

." Welcome to Kopernik – "Kopernik — www.thekopernik.org — a new non-profit venture that provides life-changing technology to the poor, launches today. Kopernik makes technology designed for the developing world accessible through the Internet and by harnessing the power of individual donations.

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