Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

After Day 2 at the GEO conference my mind is abuzz! True insight and creativity come when we are relaxed and our mind is wandering, not when we are jacked up on Red Bull and a double-shot Venti cappuccino (even in Seattle). Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012 – guest post by Victoria Dunning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2012

I racked my brain searching for the solution, and, before I knew it, my head was spinning. This understanding alone is what activates the minds natural ability to find clarity, and answers, without any effort at all. Yet, in my opinion, they are working way harder than they should. Even me, at times. It's pretty simple, actually.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Storytelling makes it personal and transforms the heart and mind of your target audience by showing them why something is important, instead of just telling them. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

You can connect with her at feedmedarling.com and on Twitter @megworden. ** During a nutrition summit last year in New York, I was listening to Deepak Chopra speak (which was awesome), and he was talking about different kinds of happiness. That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful. I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." A number of the experts were not optimistic about a connected world at all.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

But don’t do that right now because one of my best buddies, Kishshana Palmer, is here for beautiful Washington, DC by way of New York City, normally, right, Kishshana? Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? You can learn more about us. How’s it going? Kishshana: That’s right. Absolutely.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . We’re going to do a little intro. . no, no, no.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Joining us from the beautiful Hudson Valley in New York, Sarah Olivieri is here. . I’d love to know, what is your role at your organization right now, and what comes to mind when you think about strategic planning? So we actually draw our strategic plans, our impact strategies, as mind maps. You doing okay? .

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 16, 2017

For this edition of the Hubcast, we’re talking with Tony Martignetti, a New York-based nonprofit consultant. That’s who I have in mind as I pick the brains of experts every single week and planned giving has certainly been among the topics we’ve talked about.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . If you don’t believe that phone calls make a difference, that story should change your mind. . What I know after nearly 40 years of doing this work, I know what it takes to be successful. I’ve made a ton of mistakes. It’s a favor to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2008

Then I got a track back from the email dashboard blog that rounded up all posts that responded to the New York Times article about information overload. It pointed to a post from Stowe Boyd called " Information Overload, Schmoverload " that suggested the article was another attack on connectedness and whole brain attention.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2007

Lots has been written about it, including the somewhat perplexed and perplexing New York Times review that appeared last week and is the third most emailed article this week. Museums, especially science museums, are places that seek to engage the mind, not the heart. But truth isn't as popular as stories these days.

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