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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While these techniques can’t change the past, here are some design ideas to help your organization adjust and optimize your website in the future. Knowing who visits your site might not seem like a design technique at first glance. In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. You have my sympathies!) 3) Bushfire Help.

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5 Methods for Avoiding Procrastination for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found this wonderful comic on Mashable “ The Field Guide to Procrastination ” that identifies 12 different methods for work avoidance or procrastination, defined in Wikipedia as “ putting off tasks for a later date.” ” We all do it. Still, you have to get stuff done.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Time Management for Nonprofit Social Media Professionals: What’s Your Best Tip?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I jot down projects on the list just to get it out of my head and to figure out how to break them down into smaller chunks. Brain Fitness. Photo by TBN98.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I like to use a combined method. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. They’re using software – called sensemaker – to see patterns in the data that is far too much for human brains to summarize. The above shows the methods.

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Active Training: To Get Nonprofit Audiences Engaged, Keep Them Moving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model. Movement can also incorporate what you’re training on.

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When Work Is Oh-So Boring: 5 Ways to Stay Focused and Beat Distraction

Tech Soup

Not even your second cup of coffee can give you enough motivation to start the long-term project that you were so pumped about just a few months ago! First, break your project down into small, discrete tasks. I call it The Perfect 15-Minute Day Method (PDM). You had so many plans, so many ideas, and so much passion.

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