Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. Today was the opening of the conference, and Jad Abumrad of Radio Lab gave the opening keynote. ” He told us that this is a normal part of the creative process.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re also pulling our Silicon Valley brain trust into these new Labs projects by creating a new kind of nonprofit advisory board, the Benetech Labs Partners. To keep abreast of what’s new at Benetech, please regularly visit Benetech’s Blog that features voices from across our organization or sign up for our monthly updates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 14, 2008

It's worth recapping some of the events that stuck in my brain. On the opening evening, my favorite section was when Pat Mitchell (former head of PBS) moderated Dr. Nafis Sadik, Karen Tse and Jody Williams. It's amazing how time flies so quickly these days. I blinked and the Skoll Forum was already in the past.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Not only does valuable and unique content increase the visibility of your organization and its mission, but (if done right) it encourages engagement among your supporters and echoes in a familiar voice the emotional core of your organization’s purpose. Have a Brain-Dumping Session. We love having “brain dumps” in our office.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The Interaxon Headband is a brain-wave detector that sends real time information on your brain activity to your phone, supposedly so you can improve concentration and composure. It also stops snoring by adjusting the bed to open your airways without waking you up. They use a smartphone app called HomeChat. Forget Facebook.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Validate their voice and do what you can to keep them focused on how this change will impact the organization. Once in the panic zone, changes become very hard to navigate as our body goes into a maximum stress mode, our emotions get elevated, and our brains shut down and become closed off to solutions and suggestions.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2020

From my own side, I have so much energy, if I don't find plenty to keep my brain busy, I can go awry. Empower, involve and value staff; ensure they feel comfortable about voicing concerns and include them, where possible, in decision-making. It might be obvious, given a full-time job, consulting practice, and weekly blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 8, 2011

She uses her superpowers-her voice, sense of adventure and belief in the transformative power of community-to help organizations design programs that create unrestricted revenue, volunteers and advocates. Dancing in Ghana Just writing this post has broken my heart open and I feel the familiar ache. It’s time to plan the next trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future. Jerry talked one benefit of this connectedness and openness is innovation. But the point is that knowledge is now externalized in our global brain of connections with colleagues and other organizations. Identify the essential 2.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

We have so many data-themed links this month, you should probably take a moment to consider what all this information may be doing to your brain. A land line phone plays back your own voice at low levels. Box office trackers have started counting Twitter mentions to help predict movie openings. Yes, they can !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

” The nickname “brainstorm sessions” because participants were using their brains to storm a problem. It also improves overall staff engagement because it gives everyone a voice. Questions are most productive when they are open versus closed, short versus long, and simple versus complex. Basic Approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. editorial calendars. content curation. content marketing automation.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Even if we don’t go in those directions, the challenge of figuring out how to push something new whilst staying true to our voice is enjoyable. You need to be open to new ideas and willing to let go of what’s in your brain, so open mindedness is key. Josh: I’m most intrigued by the evolution of an idea.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We''re kicking off the 15NTC with these high-speed presentations during our opening reception, as well as rounding out our plenary session on Day 3 with more Ignite talks. Day 3 Plenary: Ignite with Ideas, Part 2 : You Can Change Your Story Speaker: Debra Askanase, Digital Engagement Strategist, National Brain Tumor Society.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While it’s not as complicated as brain surgery, there is a healthy dose of “rocket science” involved in creating a written content strategy, but nothing that should stop any good nonprofit marketer or communications professional from soldiering ahead. editorial calendars. content curation. content marketing automation.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So then you’re opening with curiosity, which we’ll talk about some more, but that’s the tie-down, and then asking an avid skier, so what’s the best way to showcase the mission as an avid skier, excuse me, what’s the best way to showcase the mission of preserving nature? Are you open to hearing more?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

They don't need to figure everything out, and they are open to having opportunities come their way. She is the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan e-Book and the creator of the Unfolding Your Life Vision Kit. "The people I see who are successful in bringing their vision to fruition are people who have a clear vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The panel picker process has opened – so you can vote for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program until August 27th. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Wiki: Collective brain of humanity. Her project Blogging the Dream , is one of the six new health-focused citizen media outreach projects that were announced in June by Rising Voices and Open Society Institute's Health Media Initiative. Through the Internet, they learned about the Rising Voices Grant.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. We have to use this opening to help advance our goal; using software and data to change the world for the better! And data is voice. We need to see data as an expression of the voices. A database!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

We hope you'll at least come by and say "hi" and meet the faces behind those Convio voices and emails that you know. ” Brain hurting yet from new-idea overload? ” We'll be moving from our table to a room where your Convio Customer Center friends will be available throughout the morning for an open Q&A forum.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

The doll takes a child's words and sends them over the Internet to cloud based voice-recognition software that can create the perfect response. "The creativity and connectivity explosion via social media, free, and open-source tools, and nonprofits having more direct control in communications and fundraising. Children love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. If you’re looking to build a strong relationship with donors, a content plan that supports a single unified voice is a must-have.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. This opens up the traditional auction setting from a strictly in-person event to a virtual or hybrid opportunity. You can determine your email open rate by dividing the total number of email opens by the number of people you sent the email to.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. Thank you to Reach Advisors for sharing FASCINATING insight into visitors' brains. I do so rarely.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

This opens up the traditional auction setting from a strictly in-person event to a virtual or hybrid opportunity. ” This will catch recipients’ attention and make them more likely to open your messages. When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. And I don’t know how many tabs you have open on your computer. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. And I don’t know how many tabs you have open on your computer. I’m a little bit embarrassed to talk about mine, but that is happening in our brains too when we start to follow these shiny objects back and forth. That’s a binary question.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It’s done in a clean, simple format involving a single voice narrating over two photos: (Please visit the site to view this video). Submissions to the Storymakers 2014 Challenge opens August 26, 2014. Keep Your Video Short. Keep it short. Are you sharing a story with loyal contributors or volunteers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Yes, this sounds dangerous, and yes, there are some dangers involved, but the cloud wants to be spoken to authentically, and authenticity has many competing voices, not a single monolithic tone. As a Citizen - understand the possibilities and responsibilities inherent in open and public dissemination of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. She writes: I love how social technologies allow us to discover more beautiful voices and empower people.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Third, museums as a "place to be heard"--to share your voice, your stories, your interpretation. It's only been open for a few weeks, and they already have lots of visitors sharing stories, making and sharing art, and adding their voice to the exhibitions. It's not enough to just receive information.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Full Transcript: Steven: You’ll hear a robot voice. And also for Old Navy, when the flagship store opened in New York City, I got one of the first jobs at the cash register. What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? I love that.

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