Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

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. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

She’s the CFO for a mid-sized cause-and-cure nonprofit organization and it sounded like she runs a tight ship. The problem, as she told the story, was Alan. The secret is identifying the problem without making it feel personal. First, you need to admit that you have a problem. It also takes lots of communication.

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Build Time Collaboration Nonprofit 73

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The story above is about how your brain works. Your brain has a part called the Prefrontal Cortex, or “PFC” (remember “Paula Front-and-Center”?). It directs our attention, is responsible for moral decision-making, allows us to empathize with others, and helps coordinate the thousands of signals rushing around your brain.

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Brain Americorp Hunger Nonprofit 96

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Sounds serious. Screens can overstimulate your brain and keep you from sleeping. It’s a growing problem in the nonprofit world, especially for small organizations where people are overworked, understaffed, and dealing with problems that are emotionally taxing. Read that again. Physical or mental COLLAPSE. Not a stumble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Turn Off the Damn Screen and Go For A Walk: Sitting in front of a screen for too long can cause eye strain, neck problems, and other pain. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. You can make it fun to put down your phone using the Forest app (better than locking it in a closet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health problem. I have this notification not to be a distraction but as a useful reboot of my brain to refocus my concentration – and I am avoiding potential health problems. Start with getting enough sleep.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Even if you use features like “night shift” on your mobile phone that softens or warms up that blue light, there isn’t enough data to support that it solves the problem. The glaring light off the tiny screen zaps your brain of sound ZZZs. I don’t.

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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.” It may sound counter-intuitive but we need to use technology. I don’t think that tools alone can do it alone.

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San Francisco Work Help Tips 119

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Some of the objections to learning about accounting sound very reasonable at first, especially when there's no one around to express a contrary view. My brain is not designed for numbers. The Board usually expects that there are staff members who look to prevent problems in financial matters. Catholic Community Foundation -.

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Learning Phoenix Knowledge Nonprofit 95

See3

MAY 29, 2018

But that doesn’t make it not a problem. Now, look, I don’t pretend to know how to solve the oxygen mask problem. (My But when it comes to organizations struggling to get their message through and leaning on pure, loud, authoritative-sounding repetition, here are a few tips to consider: Share the why. “Do So what can be done?

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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. Others say that it is a problem and a few made getting an alarm clock part of their new year’s resolutions. Do find it a problem? Why? At night, when I set the alarm, and the next thing I know I am checking Facebook or work email.

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Phone Mobile Nonprofit Advice 50

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

User research” sounds much more cold and robotic than it should. Here are sample ads from the three messages we created: The copy for the “Common Senses” campaign incorporates characteristics of the problem through design. Do you even need user research? Really, our users are human beings—all with their own complexities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Tracy : The problem of showing games in public spaces, it is problematic. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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Game Culture Museum Change 140

NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 12, 2016

As a nonprofit, you spend at least some of your time as a teacher, educating people about a problem and what your organization does to solve it. One interesting finding is that the human brain actually learns best in relaxed concentration. Check them out and see what works for you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Greg Pass, CTO/Twitter, teaching new employees something called "Twittokinetics" and advises them to pay attention to what their doing, understand & own the problem & realize learning opportunities. He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond.

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Blackberry Attention Mind Phone 109

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? ” And here’s my number one favorite one because I see perfectionism is a huge problem in major gift fundraising. So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. So here’s a few I hear often, right?

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Money Raise Video Brain 98

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Then two hours later, you’re sitting there looking through past writing projects and online templates hoping to find inspiration without a single word written… Sound familiar? Problem-Agitate-Solution-Impact A reliable and powerful writing formula to help your audience connect emotionally with your important work.

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

She was just on Forbes yesterday, it sounds like, and I just heard about it on LinkedIn and I’ll have to give her a call. So what she is doing in her offerings is she’s a lawyer and she’s looking at how might I find a solution to this problem? . ” It might sound a little bit condescending.

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People Community Video Podcast 77

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

Let me know if any of these sound familiar. So how familiar do these ones sound? ” And here’s my number one favorite one because I see perfectionism is a huge problem in major gift fundraising. So these are all limiting beliefs, even though they may not sound like it. So here’s a few I hear often, right?

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Money Raise Video Brain 70

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The problem is that trying to ''reduce'' stress is simply a waste of time. The problem is that willpower is a very limited resource, and it’s easily exhausted. "Stress is on the rise, both at work and home, and we cannot avoid it," says Jenny C. What is the best advice for making it all the way to the end of the fourth week?

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Tracy : The problem of showing games in public spaces, it is problematic. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Solving a major problem involving information is beyond the capability of any one enterprise – no matter how terrific. So far – sounds great. Disabilities like dyslexia, vision loss, or a brain injury or physical disability that gets in the way of using a printed book. We need to see data as an expression of the voices.

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Software Data Change eBook 118

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Whether you are modeling the brain , tracking the incidence of emotional statements on the Web, or conveying a chair as a sound wave , the resultant art is a deep reflection, not just an interpretation, of the data involved. And thus data visualization tackles one of the core problems with interpretative design.

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Design Data Artist New York 20

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

We have to take risks and experiment in order to innovate because we’re solving some of the world’s most complex unsolved problems. Now, this may sound like strategic planning, but I’m going to show you the ways in which it’s different. But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So if you identify with this, no problem, but we’re going to talk about it a little bit today, and what it looks like to build true win-win partnerships. No problem. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.”

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So if you identify with this, no problem, but we’re going to talk about it a little bit today, and what it looks like to build true win-win partnerships. No problem. So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. My brain just doesn’t work that way.” So much easier to move on from.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2008

We already know that there is an identity problem in museums where visitors perceive that they have "seen it all" even when they have seen a small bit. This is why teenagers listen to the same song over and over, to tattoo the anger or love or whatever emotion the sound provokes into their ears. It's the guarantee of a good time.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

But here's the problem: the vast majority of people who read your blog aren't reading it because they want or plan to comment on it. Thank you to Reach Advisors for sharing FASCINATING insight into visitors' brains. They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. it gets me excited.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so fundamentally, it’s you care about this cause because of what you’ve already done in the community, you’ve met some of the people that we felt will inspire others to give, and you’ll solve our community problems or kind of summarizing this. . Harvey: You got a gun problem in America, I think. .

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Money Question Raise Video 107

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

And I’m on the upswing, so if I sound a little groggy, that’s why. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . I know that thank you calls sound time intensive. They sound scary, because who wants to talk to someone? This one is going to sound like, “Oh, Lori, really?

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Video Fundraising Louisiana Minnesota 92

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. Can you release control over message discipline, and empower your organization to speak for itself, from any point of contact?

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Work Organization Ning Doc 87

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. That sounds bloody awful, doesn’t it? ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. No problem. Why do we need it? It is vendor agnostic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Attention Training Train Work 136

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

No problem. And my promise to you is that you will have three or four actionable items, tools, ways of communicating that you can implement today, right now, no problem, to start getting more response from your efforts and getting those problems. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Take a guess.

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Social Media Job Brain Time 50

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And it sounds like we’re going to have a lot of questions at the end. Rachel: It’s a good problem to have. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. But I can come back to them, if not. Rachel: Sure. Yeah, I’m going to leave some room. And I’ll be available to answer those.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2007

The reviewer makes it sound like a fairy tale: pleasant to explore without concern for reality. But this is a bigger problem--the reality that a good story can trump facts, and that people would rather listen with their hearts than their heads. Which drives me (and I'm sure many others) nuts. And that the evolutionists don't.

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