Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

A photo of me on my fake commute. For me, it is valuable as a ritual that helps me shut off my work brain and creates a boundary between me and overworking. . We are living in traumatic times, and we need to prioritize building resilience. If we learned anything during 2020, work-life balance is much harder when working from home.

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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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Byte Technology

JANUARY 27, 2016

For many non-profit social media directors, much of their time is spent crafting stellar content, posting engaging photos, distilling compelling video and much more for the organization’s Facebook page. That said, what are the best ways to use some psychological tidbits to tap into emotional and subconscious urges of the human brain?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When you write all of your content at one time, it helps your brain switch into that gear. Just because you share a story or photo once doesn’t mean you can’t use it ever again. If possible, share photos of your desk or workspace or one of your team working to carry out your mission. Tip 2: Repurpose your content.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. The era of winging it in social media is over. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 29, 2021

It’s far easier for our brains to put ourselves in the shoes of ONE person and connect with their story than it is for us to do that with a group of people. . The same goes for a photo. If you have a high-quality photo that the person has agreed to let you use, that’s fantastic! You need one person. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Photo by Kris Krug. 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. One of the most important aspects of self-care is getting a good night’s sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above. I saw this image from the I Love Science Page that is a spoof on what is happening in the brain when someone isn’t learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

Photo by Equal Rights Advocates. The photo above is from a mini-workshop I did as part of Wake International’s “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.” Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience. ” at Twitter Headquarters this week.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Their use of joyful photos of individuals or small groups helps personalize the program descriptions, as does highlighting an employee’s efforts, like those of Margaret Mary Debre, PoP’s Lead WASH Coordinator in Ghana. Sometimes, you just need some good photos to take your report from good to great. Natural Resource Defense Council.

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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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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

When humans hear a story, the chemicals cortisol, dopamine, and oxytocin are released in our brains—the chemicals that form memories, keep us engaged, and deepen our relationships. Social media posts are allowed to be more unrefined sometimes—remember: It’s where people share their lunch photos and cat videos, after all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

Photo from Librarianismchronicles Blog. This useful handbook summarizes and explains the brain science of how people learn and provides easy to use frameworks to help you design and deliver training where people learn. Brain-Based Learning: The New Science of Teaching and Training. The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2017

Flickr Photo by Real Blades, Creative Common License. Sometimes I use part of that free time to take a little walk around my desk to reboot my brain. This year, I was really looking forward to taking a holiday break and not feel stressed about deadlines, tasks, or the never ending parade of meeting requests and emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

Photo by hmcotterill. Distractions can be internal and come from our brains , our thoughts. Photo by TBN98. Brain Fitness. Concentration is part of our brain’s function and if your brain isn’t fit – you won’t concentrate or perform well. It can’t be recycled if we squander it.

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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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MAY 28, 2014

This photo comes from that event.". Photo credit: Krista Caldwell. He was an understated quiet man with a keen intellect and fine sense of humor. We mourn him and remember him well. May his gentle soul rest in peace.". I will miss him keenly, as will his TechSoup pals, and the wider tech for good community.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your site’s architecture will continuously reinforce the legitimacy of your organization through text, photos, testimonials, and logos. Images are an important part of keeping online visitors on your website— 91% of consumers prefer visual content to written content, and the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text!

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Achieve

JUNE 2, 2021

Postcards are short snapshots of your nonprofit, and your marketing team can decorate them with photos of your constituents, volunteers, events, or graphical elements. Postcards don’t take up much space, and an attention-grabbing photo can convince supporters to hold onto it and keep your nonprofit in the back of their minds. . ?. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2019

WordPress files you want to save: Database – the brain and circulatory system of your site. Uploads – photos and documents that bring the theme to life. Making daily copies of your WordPress files off-site is almost like having a built-in security time machine. Theme – the look and feel of your website’s content.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

So, to help myself narrow down the options, I look for the ones that aren’t just fun and enjoyable but are also interesting, will use my brain, keep me engaged and even help me learn something new. Because there are so many ways to “have fun and do goo&# I can fall victim to the option paralysis syndrome. 2 Make it shareable.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Twitter is great for quick updates; Instagram is great for sharing photos. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side. If your supporters are active Facebook users, for instance, you might engage them with a Facebook Challenge. Invite supporters to join in the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I have written a lot about how it is important to understand how the brain works, how people learn by using learning theories to guide the design of your workshops. Group Photo. Group Photograph: I like to have a group photo at the end to include with the documentation and resources so people have a memory of the training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2017

When nonprofit staff are constantly monitoring their email after work hours — whether this is due to a fear of missing something from their executive director or out of habit — they are missing out on essential down time that brains need. Set up internal chat lines for sharing photos or brief social updates.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Add authenticity by using unposed images of real community members rather than stock photos. Images in particular are much more attention-grabbing than text alone—they’re much more likely to be remembered, and the human brain can process them incredibly quickly (in only about 13 milliseconds ). Spotlight your supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

To much product-driven learning, and I don’t discover new ideas. One is left-brained and the other right-brained. Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

In my brain I thought, wow, wouldn’t it be awesome if everyone on Facebook actually saw this request and donated just, like, a dollar?! The photos will be shared on Facebook and Twitter for your viewing pleasure. Why $1,937, you ask? Rock on, social media!). If I win, this is what we get: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

It has to be with a split of our brain. There are two parts of our brain, the rational and the emotional. The emotional part of our brains is like an elephant. He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes – before and after photos. It is the way we’re wired.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Dr. Dan Siegel , a brain researcher, gave a riveting talk about interpersonal neurobiology – and what goes on in our brains and how it impacts our offline researches when we spend too much time connecting online. Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

Here are some of the things it currently does: It takes photos and videos by voice command and can upload them to the web. He is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience field of ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. EEG brain impulses are sent via Bluetooth to a tablet, smartphone or PC.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 14, 2017

No sad, desperate animals here: Our photos were of happy dogs and puppies enjoying (perhaps their last day of) life. Writing the copy first can set a talented designer’s brain on fire with ideas. Only then did we determine visuals. Read and watch how this story unfolded.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. I overheard comments like: “my brain is in overdrive,” “I can’t wait to try this in my work,” and “I wish the conference were longer.” Guest post by Kate Wing. We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way?

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