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ArtsLabSF: Reflections About Social Learning With Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by James Leventhal. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. The modules for the experiments include online tutorials, a worksheet that asks them to plan and implement their experiment, and the check-ins in between now and June. .

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Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colors direct our eye movements, and therefore our brains and attention. Check out these Excel tutorials and spreadsheet secrets. Beth took this photo of the wall above his desk last Oct. Dot plots are like bar charts eyes are drawn to the circles at the end of the bars. Colors can make or break a chart. New to Excel?

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

million tweets and 914,000 photos shared, the Movember movement did something right. On Friday alone, there were 78,000 tweets and 10,000 photos shared of him. Speak to the part of the brain that controls action-taking. And I want more. Be upfront, Be quiet (sometimes), and be prepared. And we talked. People give to people.

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