Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference where I gave my full attention to the presentations and conversation. The Wisdom 2.0 This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving. I call it slow social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. That the curator selects, describes, filters, organizes, and present resources.

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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. The study and presentation begins with some context. Being strategically future-minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” Mindfulness'

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

A Slide From Downes Presentation Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. I'm assuming that Stephen Downeshas licensed this presentation under CC by NC and that extends to screen captures from Powerpoint? " Richardson's quote takes it out of theoretical for me and into daily practice of blogging for personal knowledge.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Rest is a necessary and important productivity tool—and an important part of doing the inner AND outer work of being a mindful changemaker. For example, this week, you need an hour to work on a presentation for your next board meeting and two hours to write a grant proposal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? The product-driven learning is mindful, mostly linear, and focused.

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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. A blog A blog is a crucial element of any nonprofit website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

This blog post shares some thoughts. It is called the Four P’s: Planning, People, Priorities, and Being Present. BEING PRESENT. Being Present means paying attention to the people in front of us, focusing on the tasks at hand, and managing our emotions in the moment. What is Collaborative Overload?

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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. Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content. Brain Fitness. There is the mind-body connection which boils down to taking care of yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Rituals To Build Mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Like-minded folks can accomplish a lot, and expertise is not to be undervalued, but sometimes they can hit roadblocks. Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower – guest post by Carrie Avery. Seek outsider knowledge. Learn to relax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This framework works like a charm, whether it is a one-hour webinar or 7 day intensive International training or college graduate course or year long peer learning program. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE !”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The 2016 session took all of the trainers’ lessons learned from the previous session and improved upon the presentation and exercises. 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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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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JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

I am here in Romania for a conference hosted by the Soros Foundation as part of their pilot advocacy through blogging program. I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. We need to make the time to blog after hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

“Always Be Cropping&# – a very practical point for being enchanting with photos that stand out in social streams – and to mindful of good composition – which requires cropping. Here’s some other suggestions and tips for enchanting photos. Charles Porch, Facebook. JD Lasica, SocialBrite.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

And don’t miss John Kenyon ’s blog post on his top tips. If you’re speaking or presenting at NTC, check out these resources to help you catapult your session from great to fabulous. Never mind the Olympics; the NTC Geek Games are a true test of your geek strength. Visit a Giant Panda. Brush up on your speaking skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Yesterday, I participated on a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. As FSG’s Valerie Bockstette mentioned in her Strategic Evaluation Blog this morning, the GEO program lists “learning” 42 times, “evaluation” 33 times, and “proof” only 3 times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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 addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

Congrats to Megha Bhagat , Winner of HP Laptop/Printer Bundle Contest that I ran on my blog last month. Her blog is here. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. Megha Bhagat. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. meghabhagat@nls.ac.in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. Soren is the author of the book, " Wisdom 2.0 " and writes about mindfulness and technology use for Huffington Post and on Mashable. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. These triggers spark your brain’s attention response by appealing to basic aspects of what makes us human. Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. It reminds of the “Mindful Conversation” exercise described in “ Search Inside Yourself ,” yet another way to practice mindfulness but not just within yourself, but with others. Viola Spolin’s Blog. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I have to prepare for a presentation at the Integrated Media Conference (public broadcasting) at the end of the month called "Lessons Beyond the Field." A Wikitation is a presentation delivered in a wiki. It can be a great tool for conference presentations -- to present material, examples, or take notes for your session.

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MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. But, I hope this blog post will get you following her. Author: Ellice Engdahl When Seema asked me to write a post “ taking stock of the industry ,” I started to run through all the things that have been bouncing around my mind since the world changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Use Learning Theory. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. To create a word storm, you share one word that might be the answer to the key question at hand, and then the group generates a slew of words that come to mind from that first word. Have everyone present their ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Photo by Spike 55151 I read recently that the reason for "senior moments" - you know when you can't quite recall someone's name in an instant - is because the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information.      What's going on, I wondered.  

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Without creating a massive PDF discussing the allocation of funds, writing blogs discussing the progress of new program creation, or even publishing a lengthy journal article on how your volunteers are working, you can show people that your nonprofit is undoubtedly effective. Show your purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research. Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Unique Blog Readers. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

I think too many times people are raising money without a specific objective in mind. Recently, my best friend Alyson (www.alysonwoloshyn.com) was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer. View more presentations from Olaf Witkowski. Twestival Tweet Report reviewed by Tweetag.com.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, while we recognize the challenge of people still being in—and expressing—a pivot/unprecedented/back to normal state of mind, we won’t be rehashing that one this year. Additionally, and equally important for communicators to keep in mind, “illiterate” is a deficit-based word. Reprinted from Big Duck.

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For longer documents, like “Thank You – Story Driven” in this example, Fundwriter first presents you with 5 beginnings. Article Outline Plan the outline for your next blog post or newsletter article based on a topic. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds.

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