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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. If you have a Twitter account, you can create and save a search for #DonateYrBrain , and when you see a question you can answer, tweet back using the hashtag #DonateYrBrain or follow the link to the TechSoup forum to answer the question.

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People Want To Belong To Your Nonprofit’s Community

Bloomerang

And how you should never feel bad about asking someone for a philanthropic gift, because it delivers a shot of dopamine that lights up the pleasure center of their brains. But, individual identity and values aside, there’s one thing most human beings have in common: People are searching for meaning, purpose and a sense of belonging.

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How To Avoid Becoming Addicted To Your Mobile Phone

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The diagram below illustrates a Ludic Loop in checking your email. This is a Ludic Loop!

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Mind-Melding Online

Connection Cafe

Author: One of my favorite science/interests stories in the news recently was a report published in late July by Science Magazine about how researchers have found that the brain of speakers and listeners become synchronized as they talk. The study called this "neural coupling" and claimed that the process is key to effective communication.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

If you forget where a document is filed, just use the search feature. 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. Dropbox: Eliminate paperwork and the chaos and clutter that comes with it.

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Nonprofit Website Best Practices: 10 Ways to Make Your Investment Count

Neon CRM

Build a Website That Can Grow With You Like any good investment, a nonprofit website should be built with longevity in mind. Make Your Site Discoverable Through SEO Search engines use search engine optimization (SEO) to determine which pages appear at the top of search listings.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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