NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2019

That’s certainly not true for everybody, especially natural introverts, but failing to take advantage of the chance to people like-minded professionals is a big conference no-no. Sometimes it’s hyper-specific workshops, or one-on-one time with experts or an off-site mini-conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Can participants apply the skills?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

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. I hope that participants took away from our session, if nothing else, that content curation requires the human brain, as Robin Good points out.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. This reminded me of Margaret Wheatley, who was the keynote speaker at a conference in Alaska where I was doing a workshop a few years ago. Taking his workshop is the best way to learn these skills. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding. Flexibility. Co-Creating.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

That’s what’s been on my mind lately. I have disruptive approaches to social innovation in mind, with an increasingly connected society where the cost of prototyping and deploying new products is extremely low, and where innovation is no longer the sole purview of well-funded for-profit corporations. 10X: ten times the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), looking back always help you create a good lesson plan and incorporate improvements. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 24, 2011

How to Create a Juicy Blogging Vision Board Materials: Magazines you don't mind cutting up, a manila file folder, a glue stick, scissors, a timer, Mod Podge (optional), and a paper grocery bag. Keep your answers in mind as you look through your magazines. What would success look like? Who am I trying to reach with my blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

The exercise went something like this and it struck me that if I ever taught a workshop on how to use tagging that I would definitely do something like this, tailored to the group's interests of course. s H20 playlist allowed me to see the shape of how this process unfolded, thus bringing a whole new idea into my mind.

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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 the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. Year in Review.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Is our brain changing as a result? By training the brain to shift activities rapidly for multitasking, we may be decreasing the brain’s ability to focus. If one learns to put structure around technology - they will decrease the effect that technology is having on their brain. Is this ADD? What can we do?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

It just blows my mind that someone born into such an unfairly disadvantageous life set about creating such wild abundance for herself and others. Dropping into the nonverbal part of the brain happens whenever we’re very focused on a physical skill, from playing the piano to skiing, when we get lost in enjoying music, and often when we laugh.

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Just say you want to pick their brain. They tell you where her mind is taking her. Her Fired-Up Fundraising Board Workshops have inspired thousands of board members to get actively involved in fundraising. Prospect, what you want to find out, what level of interest you are trying to generate. Ask for advice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

I had gone to classes on and off before coming to California but regularly left before savasana, the rest period at the end of class where the mind is invited to be still. When I moved to San Francisco five years ago, I couldn't have known how important yoga would become to me. Waste of time , I would think to myself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish? We start each official meeting with introductions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2007

I used to teach gadget workshops for kids in museums. And so I would start every workshop by saying, “if something starts to smoke, unplug your battery IMMEDIATELY.” And so I would start every workshop by saying, “if something starts to smoke, unplug your battery IMMEDIATELY.” Originally uploaded by dr_loplop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Keep in mind that the big one eats the little one. It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. And with that in mind, I’m worried that people’s online experiences may not be giving them the right impression of who you are and what you offer at the physical site. This is a problem that many of the museums doing the best work in social media may soon confront.

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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. I want access and discussion around conference sessions, journal articles, exhibit critiques, and workshops. Heck, many of them are intelligent, sincere, interesting people. Summer's coming to D.C.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

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. His tweets reveal him as a renaissance thinker, not just a narrow-minded tech geek. . I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

It’s how my brain works. And then lastly, and this is something that I personally do all the time, in terms of fundraising trainings, and workshops, and solicitation trainings, fundraising retreats for your board. And I bet if you shoot her a quick note, she won’t mind that at all. Very linear thinker over here.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I know both of you are super busy you’re speaking at conferences, and doing webinars, and workshops all the time, so it’s really a treat to have you. . Harvey’s going to talk a little bit about getting inside the minds of donors. So these things are floating through our minds all day long. . no, no, no. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Keep in mind that you can also leverage social media tools for your fundraising campaigns. That’s exactly what you can do with an online class or workshop fundraiser. Consider class ideas like: A cooking class A creative writing workshop A cocktail-making seminar A craft workshop 16. Social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

April 7, 2007 I had heard about this new journal a while ago, and it was sitting in some small corner of my brain, waiting for me to pay attention. In other words, don’t make a copies for a workshop, or for a colleague who isn’t inside your organization, and definitely don’t make a copy for your mother to read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. In the self-care workshops curriculum that I’ve developed, I cover a number of workplace skills beyond creating a self-care plan. Two important tips.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2008

We've seen that happen with The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop. It's about training our minds to go down unfamiliar paths--to put ourselves in new, weird, snug boxes and see what comes out. What sneaky boxes do you put yourself in to move your brain in new directions? But creativity isn't about hitting the global buffet.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

She’s giving workshops. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. Maryanne: Yeah.

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