Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Do we actually “invent” or are our inventions the result of cumulative information and experience? AI is a single technology. AI represents a growing constellation of technologies from self-driving cars to medical diagnostics. ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Conference is a one-of-a-kind event in Silicon Valley that brings together an unusual mix of technology leaders, Zen teachers, neuroscientists, and academics, to explore how we can live with deeper meaning and wisdom in our technology-rich age. The Wisdom 2.0 Watch live streaming video from wisdom2conf at livestream.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Research has shown that the human brain retains information more effectively when presented repeatedly. An optimized donation page not only enhances the experience for visitors but also streamlines the process of gift-giving, resulting in improved online fundraising outcomes for your organization.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Internet of Things gives objects a brain and connects them to each other. Organizations are becoming cyborgs or integrated with and inextricable from, the technology that keeps them operating. It’s a component of most emerging technologies. For better or worse, social media creates a new form of communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Despite the challenges, many of us manage to get extraordinary results without burning out. Making and Caring for My Soul from Marlowe Miller, Professor of English and Associate, UML Center for Women and Work shares the power of being creative as a stress reduction technique. Train the brain to deal with chaos. Productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. I made a commitment to change. I’m now walking the talk about walking meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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. I heard some many big picture connections to the work I do or rather improvise on the ground, that I know I’ll be mulling over and thinking about what they shared over the next few months.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Session voting for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference is open, of course! . If you share NTEN’s philosophy of using technology to fulfill nonprofit organizations’ missions, then this is the conference for you! Reading through 400+ session proposals made my brain hurt, but at the same time pumped me up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Maybe you’re considering your program and how you can actually engage folks to actually think that they’re part of a community which will create that sticky power that continues to be self-perpetuating so that folks continue to give their time, their talent, their technology, their treasure. . Seeing results coming in. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? What are we cobbling together today from existing technology, and what could we be doing tomorrow? Online numbers don’t always equate offline results. Just ‘Cause: Can Technology Make Brand Irrelevant? What are they good for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

pulling together a list of conferences that people who work with nonprofits and technology and social change might be attend or present. This LinkedIn experiment resulted in about 56 specific conference leads. I've been doing a small research project. To challenge my set ways of doing internet research Web 1.0

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

It’s been a few days since I returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) hosted by NTEN in San Francisco, CA. Now that I’ve had a bit to get my brain together I thought I’d share a few key takeaways (for me) from the conference. Highlights from the Nonprofit Technology Conference by JD Lesica.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

A wonderful side benefit is all of the new friends and colleagues I have met as a result of writing the blog and commenting on other blogs. Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? What makes a successful social marketer?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

For more than 20 years I’ve worked to harness the power of technology to do social good. So for me, it was incredibly cool to be introduced to a new piece of technology that has a clever and (as far as I know) new approach to making information accessible to people with vision impairments.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

Technology | The Observer – "American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. ." The internet: is it changing the way we think?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Online fundraising technology allows your nonprofit to better understand which marketing campaigns effectively drive donations and where there’s room for improvement. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Capture donor information in your donor database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. Mindfulness and Reflection – How to use these techniques to help keep your focus. This infographic is an insightful profile of the way people learn in the modern workplace. Two important tips.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Online fundraising technology allows your nonprofit to better understand which marketing campaigns effectively drive donations and where there’s room for improvement. With a Google Ad campaign, your organization can bid on relevant keywords to earn ad spots at the top of search results pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. " Our brains naturally migrate to scoreboards, report cards, and stock market returns For nonprofits, it isn't about making money.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. In our brains, in the back of our brain here is our instinct, that fight or flight. ” And so when we pitch ideas, people tend to go into the back of their brain and now they’re kind of poking holes at your idea.

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