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. Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

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. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Housekeeping Mindfulness Self-Directed Learning' Year in Review. Photo by Gary Clark.

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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 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. This post shares some reflections from yesterday and a few nuggets that I learned from the presentations. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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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

MAY 4, 2015

I also was honored to facilitate a reflection exercise as part of the closing plenary session with data for good rock stars Bob Filbin, Jeffrey Blandt, and Jake Porway. I filled my journal with pages of notes, to dos, and inspiration for year long professional learning for myself. Closing Keynote Plenary Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Most nonprofit professionals can relate to the idea of wearing many hats, some of which we don’t always feel super confident with, which is where a quick, no-nonsense guide to nonprofit storytelling can come in handy. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment. Professional Drive. But you cannot just stop there. Also, please try not to make them boring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. PRIORITIES.

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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

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. It is about making it possible for participants to capture, share, and reflect on what they have learned. Year in Review. 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. We have found that the process of listing your resources in a clear, organized manner can help you wrap your brain around how you can go about raising the funds needed. After all, fundraising professionals don’t simply rely on direct mail anymore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. ” I was curious whether other nonprofit professionals face this challenge and how they solve it. ” The holidays are a great time to reflect and set new habits around self-care. I don’t. I don’t feel so immediately frenzied.”

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. The key to balance is knowing there are moments in your professional career when you’ll give a bit more, and knowing when those moments are happening too often. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2008

I'm supposed to share the five things I do each day that keep my mind healthy (kinda like how five servings of fruits and veggies keep your body healthy), and then tag 5 more bloggers to share their 5-A-Day. More of a brain dumper. My 5-A-Day : 1. If I have time, I like to do Rodney Yee's 25 minute Power Yoga - Flexibility DVD.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Fundwriter is a writing assistant for nonprofit professionals. Fundwriter is trained by veteran nonprofit professionals and fundraisers to follow proven writing models that work again and again. Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. Fundwriter.ai

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. Also, perhaps you’re interested in the podcast and reflections that I’ve learned.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 14, 2023

The actual process of changing takes true leadership, whether in our personal or professional lives. My organizational leadership mind had alarm bells ringing so loudly that I thought people could hear them. In coming to those decisions, I used the What, So What, Now What reflective approach made famous by John Driscoll.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Okay, they don't eat people's brains. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. If the programs aren't about skills, are they a professional gateway? She reflected and said that she would always prefer someone with interesting, diverse real-world experience over someone who just has a graduate degree.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about. You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. Tags: participatory museum professional development. I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation. Impersonal guards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Bersin by Deloitte’s infographic “ Meet the Modern Learner ” is an excellent summary of the challenges facing trainers who need to design and deliver professional development for nonprofit professionals. Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. What I want to share to you is for development professionals on the call, I would note that there are ways for your leaders to support philanthropy at every stage of your donor journey. It’s how my brain works.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all don’t know this about Steve, but he has backed every harebrained scheme I’ve ever had since day one and continues to encourage me as a professional and thereby encouraging all of the communities that I influence as professionals in our sector to just show up and be ourselves and do the darn thing and do the best work we can.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

These days, you don’t have to be tech-savvy to have a professional-looking campaign but you want to be sure that it makes a lasting impression and is effective at getting people to take action. Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this.

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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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Get Fully Funded

JULY 14, 2022

Reflect diversity. Using too much stock imagery throughout your website can hurt your credibility, reduce audience trust, and generally make your website look less professional. If not, it’s worth it to hire a professional photographer to ensure your photos are high quality. Reflect diversity. Set quality standards.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

But there are still opportunities, and there is some changes that funders have made to be mindful of those things during COVID. So those are the kinds of things that I have seen just from professionals. So definitely, that’s been top of mind and something that I’ve seen quite frequently. . Rachel: Okay, will do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. The advice in this post is a compilation of suggestions offered up by social media professionals involved in Ryan’s Google+ community.

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