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. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face.

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Professional Build Journal Facilitation 114

Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. This book can teach you how to incorporate a storytelling framework into your communications that shows supporters how they are the true heroes in advancing your cause. The Annual Campaign by Erik J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To provide best practices for taming the digital jungle that assaults our brains everyday at work. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Visualization Techniques. NetSmart: How To Thrive Online.

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Mind Social Media Wikispaces Media 100

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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Content Learning Brain PPT 130

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Some words and phrases that came up: Responding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Tunisia Facilitation New Zealand Technique 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Even if you have a short amount of time to teach (and set up), you can make your trainings (and meetings) interactive.

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Learning Exercise San Francisco Instruction 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. ” Content'

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Content Brain Technique Lecture 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Instructional Design Facilitation San Antonio North Carolina 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. Kulhan, who was trained in improv by notables including Amy Poehler and Tina Fey , also teaches you in his book the powerful difference between "Yes, and." is a technique that slows the brain down.

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Business Attitude Brain Technique 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

Danielle Brigida, NWF – Training Staff. How can you train and coordinate all staff on social to scale your strategy? Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Movement helps wake them up.

Social Media 101

Social Media Management Instructional Design Media 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S. Program Design.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. For example, I asked the runners to line up from “just bought my nikes&# to “training for my third 30 mile marathon.&#. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. Creative use of technology and facilitation techniques, however, can maximize the opportunities for interactivity even in larger groups. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options.

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Facilitation Interaction Reflection Design 50

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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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

These skills are: self-management and attention training. ” I don’t bother with time management techniques because in a networked world, they don’t work – that is industrial age thinking. What is more important is managing your attention and energy. That translates to redesigning the way you work.

Product 50

Product Nonprofit Attention Skills 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) to create the resiliency you need to combat stress.

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Exercise Europe Training Train 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He welcomed me to the Bay Area and asked if I would be interested in doing some trainings for the local arts community. I think this style is a better match for social media as well as social media training. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. I said yes.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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Game Brain Teach Museum 26

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Individuals with central vision loss can therefore maximize their vision through a corrective technique called eccentric viewing. This is a complex biological task that’s difficult to self-teach: it requires the eyes and the brain to learn a new method of seeing, which means acquiring new habits and skills.

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People Help Tech Colorado 113

Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. ” So there should be one person who is trained and who is the person who does all of the donor data. Now, in some cases, you may have someone else who is cross-trained to enter the data. ” OMG.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences. Then maybe there’s some staff training or staff. And Rose, you had to go remote overnight.

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Management Work Video Slides 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? And, we have to understand and apply a little brain science. When you’re constantly jumping between Facebook, email and texts, however, your brain has to divide its limited resources.

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Social Media Job Brain Time 50

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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Product Video Donor Structure 68