Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

If people can’t engage with your organization on their phones, tablets, and through social media, you could be at a serious disadvantage. Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron. Learn the fundamentals and best practices with this soup-to-nuts guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The best way to do this is to stop using your mobile phone too close to bedtime or kick it out of your bedroom entirely. The circadian region of the brain connects directly to special photoreceptors in the eye called ganglion cells. The ganglion cells then send signals directly to the circadian region of the brain.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 15, 2020

Video calls are a lot more straining on the brain than any face-to-face conversation. Give yourself brain breaks. In between meetings, you could chat with coworkers casually, and your brain would have a break during your commute. For smaller meetings, opt for them to be held on the phone or even over email.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 23, 2023

There are two parts to thanking donors: Connecting with the donor’s brain by providing a gift receipt and more importantly, touching the donor’s heart by letting them know they are heroes for giving to your organization’s cause. You make the brain connection when you give them the data they need for their records.

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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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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Their diversity in experiences, skillsets, passions, and viewpoints ensures that good missions get the brains and heart they deserve. Cast a wide net with texts, emails, phone calls and social posts. A full-service marketing and creative agency, Media Cause helps nonprofits accelerate their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

The word itself is an abbreviation for ‘no-mobile-phone-phobia’ and refers to the anxiety you feel when you don’t have your mobile phone handy or have a signal. Admit It, You Are On Your Mobile Phone Too Much: Self-awareness is the first step to changing habits. .” Come join me. .

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

My favorite part of Dropbox is that I can access it from anywhere, even from my phone. CamScanner is a scanner app for your phone. 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.

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NTEN

JULY 2, 2010

Chi has been the brains behind the development and implementation of a number of successful mobile marketing campaigns, including an awareness building campaign for the Bowery Mission of NYC. population use mobile phones and 50% of the global population pay to use mobile devices -- Chi shared some great tips for mobile marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2016

This is known as “ brain breaks ” where you simply STOP for a moment and do something to reset and renew your brain’s capacity to absorb or create that next thought. As many nonprofit professionals know too well, a hard-working but “tired” brain needs a few moments to “recharge.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

She talked about being out on a Friday night with friends and all of sudden getting an alert on her phone of an after-hours work e-mail. “I glanced at my phone, I saw the notice, and read the email. During the workshop at Rutgers, one participant shared an insight that illustrates the findings of the study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

One surefire way to ruin your sleep is to use your mobile phone as your bedtime routine. Many of us fall into this trap because use our mobile phones as an alarm clock. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. That is not a great way to to start the day.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

She reached out to me at least quarterly, we had phone calls, Zoom calls, and even met in person for coffee. You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. I started at $1,000, because I truly believe in their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

The first thing I did was to take a walk at the Stanford Dish , a nearby nature hiking area, without my mobile phone. During my walk, I reflected on my participation last March in the annual National Day of Unplugging , a 24-hour digital detox when you don’t use technology, Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

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. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The article describes the great lengths that Silicon Valley insiders are going to disconnect from social media and their mobile phones. How is brain hacking of social platforms impacted you personally or other nonprofit professionals? Makes you wonder what they know that the average user does not?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

A lot of my work consists of sitting — working on a computer, talking on the phone, or attending meetings or conferences. As Nilofer Merchant points out in this Ted.com talk , people are sitting 9.3 The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Moving around at work helps get our brains to re-engage. Even small movements cause improved brain processing speed, learning, and short-term memory. Our brains begin to slow down when we are not moving. Being active in meetings can bring our brains out of “hibernation mode.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2007

However, in one of the discussion threads on the Summit wiki, there has been mention about using cameraphones or smart phones for this in addition to. But, the brain fog has started to fade. Our questions were: What do you need to know about web/blog design so that your blog can be read by people on a mobile phone?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping. And PUT DOWN THE PHONE. Ask them to remind you that you’re working too much or that you are on your phone when you shouldn’t be. Turn your screens off. Step AWAY from technology for a period of time each day, or one full day a week. Get out of town.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. Another way to take a break is a “Digital Detox,” a period of time when a person does not use technology, the Internet, or mobile phone in order to reduce stress.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Indeed, with the Internet now funneling so much information into our brains on a daily basis it’s easy to get lost in the cacophony of the web and the short attention spans it’s created. It may sound antiquated given the virtual world we live in, but lots of people still want to pick up the phone, drop by your offices or mail in a donation.

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NTEN

JULY 26, 2012

Clear, intuitive navigation that is organized according to the brain of the people who come to your website and NOT your org chart. Your contact information, including email address, phone number and street address. A 2-second statement that sums up who you are and what you do so that anyone glancing at the page gets it right away.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Google Glass is by far the most famous of them and is a set of cyborg looking eyeglasses (now in five colors) that like many wearable devices, works in cooperation with an Android phone or iPhone. It also makes phone and video calls. EEG brain impulses are sent via Bluetooth to a tablet, smartphone or PC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Distractions come from the Internet if you have email, Twitter, or mobile phone beeping at you. Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

First, the author looks at three other studies on this issue – all using different methods, but came to the same conclusion about the effect that mobile phones have on our daily lives: “ Our smartphones make us anxious and that anxiety then gets in the way of our performance and our relationships. Where do you carry your phone?

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Communication specialists who will help your campaign attract new supporters through email campaigns, social media, phone calls and direct mail, and events. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side. Your solution should be related to specific actions your nonprofit is taking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2015

One surefire way to ruin your sleep is to use your mobile phone as an alarm clock. According to scientific research , reading a tablet or mobile phone with its backlit display in bed can make it harder to fall asleep and your sleep won’t be as rejuvenating. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

Use the tools you need, just don’t try to keep everything stored in your brain. It’s important to engage your best donors, especially those who write larger checks, via occasional phone calls and text messages. To do that, you have to get people’s phone numbers. Make sure you spread out your Asks across the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Is everyone sitting around the table, but only engaged on their mobile phones or laptops, checking email or looking at social feeds? Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings? Meetings can not only be a waste of time but also zap our energy. Walking meetings can help shakes things up.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

." A Mobile World – whitepaper – A new whitepaper from SmartOnMobile looks at how the constituents of nonprofit organizations are using<br /> their mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Make it a policy to have some white space as part of your week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” ” These apps can transform our mobile phones, tablets, and computers from agents of distraction into agents of mindfulness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I have done conference calls on my mobile phone while walking. Then you remind yourself every hour (with an alarm on your phone) to stay on task. When the alarm goes off, you look at the your list and assess where you are. Still, you have to get stuff done.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

is a technique that slows the brain down. Move around before your next meeting, phone call, or presentation—pace, jump, or shake your limbs a bit, to get blood pumping more quickly throughout your body and increase the amount of oxygen to your brain. and "Yes, but." "Yes, Yes, and."

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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. smart socks generate heat maps of how a runner’s foot strikes the ground and sends the info to a phone app. The thing costs $200.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The name comes from the “dura” matter in the brain, which is where spinal leaks happen. The most important question for them is where their community is, and it’s clear that most of the community is at home on their phones and computers. and share via email and social media. Each year they hold an event called Duradash.

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