Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

When a good story is shared, scientific research shows our brains connect to storytelling can have on us: Stories are remembered 22x more easily than data, facts, and stats. Storytelling engages our sensory cortex in the brain , allowing the listener to feel, hear, taste, and even smell the story. Step 1: Understand story structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. It is a more structured body break and incorporates more in-depth debrief on content.

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Kindful

MAY 26, 2021

Sometimes without even noticing it, our brain is activated in a unique and engaged way when a story is being shared. It’s brain science. Science tells us that when someone is sharing or listening to a story, their brain produces several chemicals and hormones. Once upon a time…. That’s the power that story holds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Both flood the brain with dopamine, provide a brief high, and kill your productivity.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. . These short films, which take viewers on a journey into the specifics of your work in 90 seconds or less, have many benefits.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

Clear goals and a detailed timeline will give the necessary direction and structure to your advocacy campaign. In general, use this structure for best results: Map out a story arc. While facts and figures reach the logical side of our brains, stories appeal to the emotional side. Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

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. (In Rituals. (In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

If I can’t process what I hear by asking questions of the expert or checking in with another participate or sitting quietly and just thinking about what was shared, there is a point that I reach after about 15 minutes – it’s call “My Brain Is Full Up.” I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. 4) Read more books. My mind wanders after a couple of paragraphs even when reading New York Times Bestsellers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. As we face an even darker winter due to the pandemic, we need to keep improving our resilience, the ability to adapt well in spite of significant stressors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

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. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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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. This year we hiked by Pacific Ocean near Moss Bay.(Pictured Pictured above).

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 2, 2019

A lot of conferences have structured networking sessions built in to the agenda that almost force attendees to mingle with one another. Yes, most conferences will make their presentations available after they’re over, but taking notes puts the info in your brain without having to rewatch or relisten to content.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Your site map, data structure, and server security all play an important role in how search engines index your site and assess its relevance to various search topics. You can use a number of on-page SEO strategies to boost your site’s rankings , but any technical issues on your site will make it hard for you to reach the top.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ? How do you make sense?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! One infamous example is Foldit , a protein-folding puzzle game that crowdsources potential real-world protein structures and solutions.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

But the journey from silo living is worth your time and brain power. Maybe it’s something as simple as talking through campaign coding structure. First, you need to admit that you have a problem. It takes time, trust, and maybe a little trial-and-error. It also takes lots of communication.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure. Once in the panic zone, changes become very hard to navigate as our body goes into a maximum stress mode, our emotions get elevated, and our brains shut down and become closed off to solutions and suggestions. Technological change – new software and systems.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

One that I like was created by Kristina Halvorson and her team at Brain Traffic , called the Content Strategy Quad: A simple way to look at this is by dividing the top and bottom quadrants. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow. Get to know your Ultradian Rhythms , the natural rhythms of your body and brain that repeat throughout the day. Create Device Free Zones.

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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. Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Being/Doing Structure: The first day offered more structure. In a very funny way, Alan discouraged us from doing that by telling us that when we sit with people we know, we are not open to making new connections and form cliques. There were 12 topics organized into three different themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after. 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. The learning model is called “SAVI ” : Moving and doing (Somatic).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

We once thought the problem was simply about a lack of calories, but now we know it’s more about not having enough nutritious food to support body and brain development. As our understanding of the problem has evolved, the language we use has evolved too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

He spoke about creativity and what psychologists and brain scientists are learning about it. Some of the greatest breakthroughs arrive when people who are outside the traditional structure take a look at a problem. I wont’t try to summarize the entire talk here, but the most important takeaways for me as a funded were: 1.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

. (#11NTCSocialCRM) Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) - The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. I love it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. He referred to a Stanford study that showed that successful, brilliant creative people go through a game of ping pong in their brains as they create: This is good!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2014

Leverage the natural structure of your community. Use guest bloggers as an extension of your brain. Why do you feel loyalty or responsible to another online community or platform? Study their forums, social media presence, and other outreach methods. This one is a little trickier to define. What are other community members asking for?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Is our brain changing as a result? By training the brain to shift activities rapidly for multitasking, we may be decreasing the brain’s ability to focus. If one learns to put structure around technology - they will decrease the effect that technology is having on their brain. Is this ADD? What can we do?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

And, the fact of the matter is, explains Greenwell, "Hardwiring in the brain is different for men and women. An effective mentoring program demands structure. Furthermore, Greenwell shares that at the current rate of change, most readers of her book this year will be dead before gender balance hits fifty percent. Measure progress.

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Leadership Profit Mentoring Ratio 40

Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2011

Tech Track: Keeping it Real (Secure) – Security in Your Network Neighborhood (10:30 am-12 pm Saturday) – The tech track sessions differ in both content and structure. Structurally, these are collaborative/conversational sessions. . (#11NTCSocialCRM). I love it.

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Gyrus

JUNE 21, 2016

Simple, by structuring and solely acting upon a living brand strategy. When you think of brands like Coca-Cola or Walmart, there is a clearly defined color palette that tends to circle around in your brain. As a new marketing person, I have a unique opportunity to engage our users, potential clients, and cohorts in the industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness. People who can bridge networks – fill structural holes – stand to benefit. Diverse networks are collectively smarter and provide a richer variety of resources to participating nodes. Small talk nourishes trust.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. This invaluable bunch works with NTEN to design core curriculum tracks, conference structure, and thematic focus. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Annie Lynsen, Marketing Director, Small Act. Jane Meseck, Director, Microsoft.

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