Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . Your mind and body need these boundaries. Keep moving and practice mindfulness. If you are not one to meditate, try practicing being present on your commute by noticing every detail.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 27, 2023

Whether the crisis be global or not, this book offers a practical guide for business leaders on how to navigate a crisis and then emerge in better shape than prior to the crisis. Burstall also recommends that when a crisis hits, that you gather your sharp brains around you and listen carefully. “Be

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APRIL 17, 2023

Practice Critical Thinking The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory can perform 10.51 Don’t waste valuable brain power. But with regular practice, even introverts can be comfortable contributing. Open-minded humanists, interested in a broad spectrum of topics and issues. Avoid cookie-cutter hiring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2021

I’ve written about and have been interviewed about my #fakecommute ( most recently on CCN ), but I also discovered another simple practice that is good for your mental health and your waistline. It really helps reset my mind and body – and fight virtual fatigue. It’s called “ Exercise Snacking.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Moreover, if you could accelerate shifts away from unsafe cooking practices, you might have a terrific return on social investment. We know in theory what a brain injury means, but seeing Gabby Giffords on stage, struggling to speak as a result of her brain injury, brought its impact home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

When you’re overworked and over stressed, it affects your concentration—your mind wanders, you forget things easily, you can’t focus. Self-care solution: Add more movement into your workday—stand up and walk around to clear your mind. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. Rosen’s research can not yet determine what the impact is on our brains and lives as it too soon. Thrive also has a terrific section about how to unplug , packed with practical advice.).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2023

Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Practice is nothing more than a series of failures that eventually lead to varying degrees of success. It’s protective in nature.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Practice is nothing more than a series of failures that eventually lead to varying degrees of success. It’s protective in nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

This includes behaviorism and social learning or peer learning, communities of practice, and connectivism. Internal: These theories take into account our minds and bodies. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. The sitting brain is really disengaged.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’. If you can dream it, Gearset can build it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. In 2013, keep these two words at the forefront of your mind.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking Care of Yourself While Changing The World by Meico Marquette Whitlock and a foreword by Beth Kanter 3 Ways to Thrive When Your Work Doesn’t Love You Back You’re committed to making a positive difference in the world.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

There’s reputable neuroscience research showing that people’s brains light up when they hear their own name. So our brains are actually hard-wired to respond to appeals that speak to us directly. Our brains are always looking for shortcuts, and the word because triggers us to comply. The Research. There sure is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

The benefits of taking control of your digital life in and outside the office are immense: greater presence and mindful attention, enhanced productivity and creativity, better relationships, improved sleep and less risk of anxiety. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. Moving reboots your concentration and replenishes energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. Mindfulness' Share it below!

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change. 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. Then share the Google Doc with the Board member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Practice is nothing more than a series of failures that eventually lead to varying degrees of success. It’s protective in nature.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s important to showcase how what you do relates to what’s top of mind for folks. Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2020

Shed the discomfort of uncertainty, which is the only way to open your mind to all possibilities. It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Practice is nothing more than a series of failures that eventually lead to varying degrees of success. It’s protective in nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Meet my colleague, Meico Marquette Whitlock, who is the Founder and CEO of Mindful Techie. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. You have now moved into the area of “Mindfulness and Technology,” what inspired the move from nonprofit techie into mindfulness?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records. Provide specifics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It’s for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives. Some points that particularly resonated and that I have been working on myself are: Mindfulness is about becoming aware of how you direct your attention – both online and offline.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It will trigger questions in the recipient’s mind like “Do I believe this email is urgent and deserving of my immediate attention?” You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

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. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.” This might be mean sharing less. ” Content'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. He doesn’t share how and when he take breaks which are essential to focus and concentration. Also, in practice, many people may not have that much control over their work day, especially those working in a nonprofit organizations. Brain Fitness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For the 40 days leading up to my birthday I created a 4-part daily practice of moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. For the 40 days leading up to my birthday, I picked one thing to do each day that engaged my body, mind, heart and soul: moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. I'd also love to hear about your daily practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

Many times I take notes in a visual format like mind mapping that helps me better understand the conversation as it unfolds. I have practiced using my iPad with drawing apps, but I’m not quite fluent enough in it. I also wonder if there is an impact on being creative?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. I can enlighten my mind, enliven my spirit, and experience what I couldn’t before. Meet Kevin and “Sophia” (who anonymously shared her story with my team).

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Eventually, I realized that if development professionals really want to make a difference in their organization’s ability to raise money, they not only need to think about their donors, they need to understand how the donor brain works. Our brain, meanwhile, is telling us that it feels good to. It Feels Good to Give. help others.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Mark McCallick, CPA, CITP has a practice dedicated to nonprofit organizations and small business — see www.mac-cap.biz. Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. Begin with the end in mind" is based on the principle that all things are created twice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Rituals are also 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. Rituals To Build Mindfulness. Designing and Implementing Workplace Rituals.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. By placing the donation button on every page, you reinforce its presence in the minds of your website visitors. Sharing your knowledge and expertise will empower your readers and inspire them to take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The session not only included training tips, but modeled them during the session so that the audience interacted and practiced skills directly. The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers.

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