Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I got to learn a few new tricks and continued to polish approaches already in my toolbox. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The New Social Economy. Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I ask certain questions to help identify these individuals. . I select what I questions I do based on answers in an online pre-survey. It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The presentations ended with a reflective practice question that participants could discuss with someone in the room, think about quietly, or tweet using the hashtag #npsmpeer. Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Read Danielle’s blog post ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Integrate Practical Use of the Tools for Reflection, Network Weaving, Getting Ideas, Follow Up Work. organizational change, and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

The question was really how do you say yes to a connected yes and an inner life as well? He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. The best question from the audience was "Is there an App for that?" Soren Gordhamer, Wisdom 2.0

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. We are working very closely with V.S. Monica Wahengbam.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

That’s the focus of one of the sessions – so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, discussion questions, and session content. I try to schedule time blocks that require high level concentration tasks (like writing) in the morning when my brain is better able to concentrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. When we are engaged in what we think is multitasking, what we’re really doing is we’re forcing the brain to switch back and forth really rapidly and creating feelings of anxiety and stress in our physical body. Anything else you want to share?

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. Likely Questions Anticipate questions that will come up in people’s minds. was the nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

But I left uneasy, grappling with questions that plagued me throughout the conference. I was thrilled by Max’s talk and looked forward to seeing how the physical site reflected the transparency and engagement he spoke about. You tag your brains out on the Powerhouse online collection database. Impersonal guards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

The reason I think this is a classic Internet story is that 90% of the ongoing cost of publishing that blog is my own cost of staying informed and reflecting on what I learn. As I see it, staying informed and reflection are part of my job. Most importantly, it remains a tool for staying informed and for reflection.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. So I have a question for y’all.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2015

These innovators are contributing to significant progress and new solutions to some of the leading problems our planet and humanity faces: ultra poverty and the present and future of refugees for example, as well as other (not so serious but just as important) questions like “Can teaching improv in the work place enhance success?”

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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? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. What donors can teach us about making more money, Penelope shares 3 key research driven insights around donor-centric fundraising. Connections.

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