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. So much of social media success is about how our brains process and prioritize messages and having a diverse thought process that sparks our imagination and creativity.

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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. The pandemic spotlighted the inequalities of food allocation systems that weren’t distributing healthy, fresh, nutritious food to underserved communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. 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!

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

"Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. Working with nonprofits for over 25 years has made it very clear (to me at least) that the "right brain" is dominant in most nonprofit organizations. Will we need to upgrade our system in anyway?

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI systems are composed of modules that can be independently developed and replaced. Humans are influenced by biases and emotions, while AI systems are objective. AI’s bias may not have emotional origins, yet there is both evidence and fear that human prejudices are inherent in AI systems. Humans see the big picture.

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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. TechSoup Global Summit: Action Session on Civil Society Resillence. 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.

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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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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. Russell Feldman, Data Systems Manager, Community Resource Exchange. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bloggers just like myself are sitting there tormenting their brains in an effort to say things that impact you more than the person before them. For example, a certain senior engineer at your firm can quickly answer the question about a particular sized component within a system without having to reference a diagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

With that in mind, I wanted to set out six queries that might help foundations orient, anchor, and structure their learning, and better use its fruits. The staples of Oz – courage, heart, and brains – are a good start. These typically translate into leadership, passion and culture, and analytical capacity and systems.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

And what she offers is structure and strategy to how to become a better fundraiser through doing some of your own self-reflection. . So Kathleen works with a foundation for a school system, or she works for a foundation in a school system. Episode 21, where we talked about how important it was for us to create buddy system. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

Come back later, give the system time to update, and spend a brief time exploring the search aspects of your tags, others linked tags and the common tags. Do you have to be disciplined and structured in your search methods/approach to reap benefits from Delicious or is a non-linear approach useful - or does it depend on the user?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. Lost is one of the first shows that has been structured as a game. Systems thinking - need to use to think about ecosystems, cultural systems, rich profound form of thought. They were presenting in Davos, Switzerland.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

How do you structure your database? Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. There are lots of other software systems out there, so no longer do you have to pay $20,000 to get Raiser’s Edge. So you got to make that case. Why do we need it?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. Visit our website.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” So another way I think about this is like it’s opening up so many tabs in our brain. That’s what Bloomerang is, that’s what we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2005

I was already very interested in automation at this point and built a small content management system for the purpose of publishing those bits. This is really rewarding for me personally, because among this wave of bloggers are people like yourself who take a systems perspective to nonprofit technology.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So if you’re embarking on a capital campaign, and you’re building, let’s say, you’re a hospital system, and you’re building a new oncology wing, let’s talk about that in the community. And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

My practitioner brain went right into the weeds, or rather Twitter and I posted this question: I used the hashtag #answerbeth and lots of retreats and some responses: . "I One problem with NP's is that they took their governance structures from for-profit corporations and these are obviously not optimal for the type of work they do.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

So what is this old system doing to us? But three months is a little too long for that human brain to imagine. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. . But this meetings are highly structured, so they are time bound, they are productive, they really capture issues before they go too far. .

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2015

When you look at the threads that connect the companies that have unlocked the potential of a fluid hierarchy, you will see that two fundamental building blocks can enable such a system in your organization: understanding what drives success, and. investing in soft skills. In that sense, it doesn’t need to be fluid.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

and trying to be consistent with how you track and how you’re managing that information, are you using a manual system? Are you using an electronic or digital system? . Those tend to be a lot more structured and there has to be more concept refinement before submitting an application and cultivation with the program officer.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

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. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. So there’s perception, behavior, and structure.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. Are you using systems that require lots of personalization that could be automated? What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? ” Haley, absolutely. Absolutely. Are you renting or are you owning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The prelude to burnout would typically involve long-term chronic stress: the mind races, the nervous system fires up in ‘fight-flight’ mode and we may experience symptoms such as sleeplessness, extreme fatigue or anxiety. Slowing down our breathing is a direct and powerful way to balance an over-stimulated nervous system.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

The logic is reasonably clear: a child's best hope is to "rewire" their damaged brain structure while s/he is young and has a high degree of neuroplasticity. I accept that, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try -- the current system is too broken. and embrace innovative new learning models" (ED.gov).

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