Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Here’s some things she mentioned that I thought were useful: The new digital literacy is not finding the information, but being able to make choices when you had enough information flood your brain and take the time to synthesize. “Batch Concepts” – If you are working on five different stories, don’t jump around.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2014

Grant proposals. Then I started using it for chunks of grant proposals. In proposals, it can be easy to fall into jargon and long, convoluted sentences. Now I find Hemingway infiltrating my brain when writing almost anything--including this blog post. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. Word counts matter there too.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Finally, after hearing a lot of nuts and bolts from them about numerous programs and processes around which I couldn’t quite wrap my brain, I said “Tell me why I should give in one sentence.” Fundraisers must understand they no longer just write hard copy fundraising letters and grant proposals.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Members of the panel can then choose to invest or not invest in the proposed business. After all, this is their idea, their brain-child, their life. If you’re unfamiliar, Shark Tank features hopeful entrepreneurs pitching their business ideas to a panel of renowned business leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Opening Acts executive director also understood the importance of creating a workplace culture of wellbeing or what we call in the book, “We-Care.” Erika says it did not take much convincing when she proposed the idea of having staff create self-care plans at the staff retreat. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together.

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Tech Soup Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Social media surgeries are informal drop-in sessions where anyone from the voluntary and community sector can come and pick the brains of our ‘surgeons’ (helpful volunteers who understand the world of Twitter, Facebook, and the rest). Taipei, Taiwan: PC / Web site information security: proposal for non-profit organizations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

I’ve seen organizations rather take two months to get a donor a proposal to make sure that every T is crossed that every I is dotted rather than turning something around a little more quickly, right? . Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? It’s simply your brain doing its job.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. As we move into the age of AI, we propose an evolution of the 2-minute rule: The AI 2-minute rule. Instead, we should capture all of our tasks and ideas in a system, and then process them at a later time.

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Tech Soup Blog

JULY 8, 2014

Your organization’s HR Director knocks on your door wanting to discuss the latest employee benefit offerings while you’re in the middle of working on a grant proposal. When you allow co-workers and technology to constantly interrupt you, your brain has to work much harder to get back on task and you lose a great deal of momentum.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

I’ve seen organizations rather take two months to get a donor a proposal to make sure that every T is crossed that every I is dotted rather than turning something around a little more quickly, right? . Thanks, Mother Nature, and thanks, brains, right? It’s simply your brain doing its job.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

My brain is not designed for numbers. Some accountants like to be the naysayer: “The answer to your proposal is 'no,' and I will find a reason later why.” So, don’t rely too heavily on your accountant. Attaining good financial management skills will help ensure that your organization moves forward, even without him or her. “My

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). If Shakespeare on Twitter, how would he tweet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I’m honored to be included on a panel proposed by him, along with Carrie Rice , called “ How to Conquer Technology Distraction and Burnout and Be More Present for Yourself, Team, and Organization for the 2018 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

They may have grown up in a grade school that didn’t emphasize writ­ing, or perhaps they were simply left-brained, science and math types. Your board members write thank you letters , and your chief exec­utive writes partnership proposals. Your board secre­tary writes fundraising invitations. Your marketing coordinator writes ad copy.

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Tech Soup Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

And then we stopped talking and our brains exploded with new information and connections. Before we wrote our proposal , we read, watched videos, and listened to podcasts. For us, the opportunity to quickly learn, have access to engaged coaches, and ask questions was phenomenal. What We Learned.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

That connection can in turn transform from a series of responsive transactions based immediate needs to more strategic planning, with the provider playing the role of trusted advisor/innovator/peripheral brain for the client.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

As a conference both for and by the nonprofit technology community, community members submit session proposals and then vote on them to help shape the agenda. Reading through 400+ session proposals made my brain hurt, but at the same time pumped me up.

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Tech Soup Blog

MARCH 24, 2014

anniversary celebrates British physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal for creating the World Wide Web in 1989. To go even further out on the technology frontier there is ‘brain computer interface’ or thought controlled computing. This 25 th. The Internet was created nearly 30 years earlier by the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

So, I design all of our in-house print and web-content, including proposals, email templates, social media posts, logos, invites, everything. You need to be open to new ideas and willing to let go of what’s in your brain, so open mindedness is key. WHAT DO BOTH OF YOU DO AT MALARIA NO MORE? . Pratima: I’m the Graphic Designer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” But the real words to describe how the organization thinks about data, “It made us better at learning and growing.”. What’s good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

Also (in the beginning) I enjoyed preparing proposals and grants for our foundation partners ??? Time to write AND the inconvenience of waking up in the middle of the night (almost EVERY night) with fully formed posts in my brain. I learned quickly that development is all about building relationship and it was a natural fit.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. . So if you are a smaller organization, you might not need to have 100k proposal in the pipeline. So check that out.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. After the reorganizations and budget cuts, no one had time to spare and any practical proposal was sure to get opposed by the one whose workload would be afflicted.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So it’s asking them, you know, I recommend doing some kind of either a poll, a survey, or even one-on-one share where you say, you know, “How do you feel about the fact that we just lost this proposal or it didn’t hit this benchmark?” ” Brains start aligning, “Oh, we’re connected.”

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