Whole Whale

JUNE 22, 2021

We even have fun channels like “Travel” and “Music” where employees can post non-work related content. We put BOCs on the calendar about once a month and talk about anything new in our lives like things going on with our families, our workout routines, new music we love, an awesome movie we saw, etc. Work in Sprints.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2012

But it took a good long time for me to get out of the habits of being entertained, and back into the habits of doing things, or even just reading and listening to music, which are entertaining enough, really. I realized the extent to which my brain was trained to seek out stimulation, and how it wasn't so happy when it didn't get enough.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. Answer: “ If the ocean dies, we all die. ” . What to Do if You’re Being Bullied.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. For mental balance, when you’re offline read books, listen to music, and watch television programs that you enjoy. The will to engage and interact is drained, and procrastination sets in. Be sure to stretch and walk throughout your day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 1, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. : Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging July 9: Jumpstart your Blog! workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA. You can connect with Kenya through CD Baby, Source Consulting Group , and Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2011

August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and co-presenting The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop. Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: July 9: Jumpstart your Blog! workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA. You can connect with Kenya through CD Baby, Source Consulting Group , and Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. A few colleagues use alarm clocks with CDs and wake up to music. Colleague Christine Egger wakes up to “ It is a Beautiful Morning ” and she says “ It is much better than a wake up call.” I don’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

You know a conference is going to be a different experience when you walk into the conference area and there is harpist playing beautiful meditative music that melts away as the chimes and bells ring to signal the beginning of the conference. Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com. Many said they had both experiences.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

It’s just one of the many reasons why you can’t trust your brain or your co-worker’s brain, to house all your donor information. There are simply too many donors (I hope) with too many eccentricities to rely on a human brain. Wouldn’t that just kill you a little?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Make sure to bring your brain power to compete in Geek Bingo, a helicopter obstacle course, karaoke, and dodgeball! Live music will be provided by the band, Pirates for Sail (yes, pirates!). Never mind the Olympics; the NTC Geek Games are a true test of your geek strength. Come join us for fun and games at our second annual Geek Games.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

Try not to overdo it, but do not be afraid to use splashes of color, integrated music, modern conversational language/dialogue, humorous components, and narrative. Beyond that, in the organizational environment, effective learnings must be applicable to daily life and reflect experiences that could be faced every day on the job. Adaptability.

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

that panel on innovation really got the brain juice flowing. NTCwinning 7: Musical Entertainment Photo by Trav Williams After the 2011 NTC, we decided that we needed to incorporate some music and local culture into the NTC. Amazing social discourse! The Ignite sessions were fantastic! If you could bottle the energy in that room.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

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. Just the idea that we have to meditate to drop into Wordlessness shows our cultural bias.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Back to the actual fundraising event, don't wrack your brain for ideas, but put your own twist on your fundraising. Hold a music related event. Having an online event registration and payment solution in place helps with more than managing the details, it also helps you accept donations from people who could not attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

At the last minute, he got nervous and asked me for the music. I don't expect that he will be concert pianist one day, but music study and performance offer a chance to learn some great life skills -- discipline, reflecting on on your performance and thinking about improvements, all the content skills of playing the piano and learning music.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. I love how he comes home smelling like fire and mud. Supporting art and artists, writers and books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

KRS1 was the brains behind Boogie Down Productions, and he was a master storyteller. KRS1 would go on to become an expert at using music as a vehicle for social change (a whole other blog post), but early on it was all about telling his own story. I think that's something all nonprofits can learn from.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

I found a studio with the right mix of music, intensity, and spirituality soon after moving to SF and quickly found myself hooked (though still rolling up my mat early). 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.

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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. A few colleagues use alarm clocks with CDs and wake up to music. Colleague Christine Egger wakes up to “ It is a Beautiful Morning ” and she says “ It is much better than a wake up call.” I don’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

I also pointed out that it uses a different part of your brain and there is a need to shift mindsets to get other types of work done. I also need to put classical music on my Ipod and concentrate in a different way. I tend to map my "working the clouds" work in short, time boxed bursts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2005

Just so it doesn't get boring, I take my Ipod along and listen to music or podcasts. Corey Pudhorodsky, the and brains behind the program, is the Terry Gross of the nonprofit podcasting world. On most mornings, I try to get my exercise done in the morning, a five mile run or spinning. I've said this before and I'll say it again.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2016

Our brains are wired so that we must feel something before we can make a decision. Now at 79, Mrs. Amanda Lee loves to remind me she can still recall the thrilling moment when the orchestra music began, and she was swept away with a love for live theater. Use communication to cause people to feel something.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

When I do not awaken to a song running through my head, I attribute that to my brain watching over me by not allowing The Joker to slip into my subconscious. It will be interesting to see which receives more comments: the contents of my latest whitepaper or my musical preferences mentioned herein. Hopefully it will be the former!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

Yet, ironically, no tornados appeared, and while the wind was wicked – it was the perfect night for the music of her new album. And away with her brain went all the years of evidence that a certain supporter had played an integral role in getting grant funding from a couple of key local foundations. They deferred the event.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Last week, I prototyped four exhibit ideas with the Experience Music Project in Seattle. I think in the future I'll try to always test several things in parallel--it was a good experience both for the ego and for the part of my brain that can make better judgments of things in comparison to each other than in isolation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. Being on the C2 planning team has stretched my brain to consciously think about the processes and conditions for creativity and collaboration. Imagine a small enough group that you can spend meaningful time with brilliant people in your field. Sounds good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When I'm asked questions that I don't know the answer to, I admit it and use it as opportunity to demonstrate the value of the social brain or having a good network on Twitter. I got hit with a question that I could not answer on the spot - a very good question. Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

I don't really have commercial aims for my blog so it is more a playground and archive for my brain, which I hope will be useful to whoever happens by. I find it helps me to concentrate since I can unburden my brain by tagging something for easy retrieval-later should that topic become pressing.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners. Simply put, your body’s motion can create the clouds needed for rain or wind needed to pollinate plants.

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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. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. The key is the interconnectivity of users - and what can happen when you get connected with people with similar goals. It is not a book with pages, but it is about relationships. .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. Play music you love but that you haven’t listened to in ages. Just sitting still and doing nothing can be just the right thing to do as your brain adjusts to not working.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2007

Reading through the entries already present, I'm struck by how little the games are about fun and how much they are about engaging specific parts of the brain. you get the idea. Some people are creative, inventing stories about other subway travelers by looking at their shoes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. All e-books should have an audio capacity, using whatever smartphone or music playing device a person has in their pocket. He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2007

He notes that film, music, visual art, and literature have evolved as media that are used in all kinds of environments, from the mundane to the profound. Similarly, the enormously successful casual Brain Game, which is essentially a repetitive IQ test experience, isn't popular solely because it's fun.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2007

But this yearly music/film/interactive conference/festival/creative happening has risen to the top of must-gos for techy, arty, gamey folks. The circuit in our brain that makes stories appealing to us is empathy. Have you been to South by Southwest ? Me neither. Like going to a theater and showing a blank screen.

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