Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. Instead of completing the task yourself or putting it on the pile, send it to a trained model that can deliver a rough draft or quick solutions. MODEL: requires Read.ai MODEL: requires Read.ai

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. Ned explained that the wearables are a hot topic now.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. In addition, the firm offers services in planning studies, strategic planning, development audits, board training, and executive searches for nonprofits across sectors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. In addition, the firm offers services in planning studies, strategic planning, development audits, board training, and executive searches for nonprofits across sectors.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. Technological change – new software and systems. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. Let’s get one thing straight – change is the only constant we can count on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The research indicates that the human brain, on average, has the capacity to pay attention for about 10-12 minutes within an hour. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? And they let you spend money on technology? He showed examples when change comes joyfully, like weddings and having children. He talked about changes in technology and fashion. It has to be with a split of our brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Note from Beth: My colleague, Daniel Ben-Horin, from TechSoup Global has been in the nonprofit technology for decades. But when he gets excited about activity that could benefit the nonprofit technology sector, I listen. What do you think of the Campus Party model? They want their brains to matter.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

I opened up one of Fundwriter’s appeal models ( Appeal – Human Impact ) and entered information as if Fundwriter.ai uses artificial intelligence that has been trained on billions of real-world examples. The AI uses all of this training to determine what words are most likely to follow the last word. Fundwriter.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? And they let you spend money on technology? He talked about changes in technology and fashion. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. Direct the Rider.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

The one question: How do I convince my boss and co-workers to get on the train with us? And they let you spend money on technology? He talked about changes in technology and fashion. It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. It is the way we're wired.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. With the conference in DC, it means that getting there and back is easy by train. Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. It is using private goods for social good reasons. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.”

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

I look forward to the NTEN NTC (Nonprofit Technology Network's conference) every year. With the conference in DC, it means that getting there and back is easy by train. Bringing multiple communication channels in to a contact-centered model. Using technology to deliver a message, or to raise funds. 11NTCSocialCRM).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. You invest people for training. They’re just technology.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end. Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

5 Pitfalls That Ruin Your Productivity (and Sanity) by Megan Keane, Membership Director, NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network writes about some common challenges that get in the way of our personal productivity and suck our energy like powering through your work day without taking a break. ” Model and encourage well-being practices.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Maybe you’re considering your program and how you can actually engage folks to actually think that they’re part of a community which will create that sticky power that continues to be self-perpetuating so that folks continue to give their time, their talent, their technology, their treasure. . How can we do things differently?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. I get the question, "What's next after Twitter?"

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And then, as we continue to engage in this digital remote world, I think we’re all becoming much more comfortable with leveraging technology and social media to amplify our message as well. It’s how my brain works. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right? Very linear thinker over here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Of course, the objects were chosen for their pecularities, and in some cases, such as a giant licorice tricycle shaped like a shoe , the imagined usage (guide dog training distraction device) is almost as reasonable as the real thing (2000 Olympics closing ceremony vehicle). The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? But it’s a journal about technology and social change ! Is there a business model that will make this work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

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. People hate to be sold, but they love to buy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

So they are the people that go and actually do the vetting, accept loan applications, do training if there is any--most of our partners do that--and actually distribute the funds, collect the repayments every few weeks, that sort of thing. There have been borrowers who have not been model citizens. Kind of a funny time for us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There are two models of growth. Britt: You've used entrepreneurial models in combination with nonprofits, with Global Exchange, and now the Global Citizen Center. Some people are saying that the nonprofit model is fading out, and that we need more social entrepreneurship. How do we grow the organization?

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