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

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

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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. My Three Themes: Resilience: This theme relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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. Story or Die: How to Use Brain Science to Engage, Persuade, and Change Minds in Business and in Life by Lisa Cron.

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

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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

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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.” Training Design' Incorporating Movement.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2021

By identifying and addressing limiting beliefs that you may face, you can train your brain to approach tasks with more confidence, creativity, and enthusiasm. When you start to doubt your story, remember that stories teach skills, generate passion, and help others feel understood.

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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. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos.

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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. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. I involved in what I call “room hacking,” (when you have to rearrange furniture in a training room to accommodate a more interactive style of delivery). I also had them move them chairs back at the end. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. In addition, the firm offers services in planning studies, strategic planning, development audits, board training, and executive searches for nonprofits across sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They 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. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Most of work projects are capacity building and training other trainers. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

Later that year, I had begun to notice that I needed to pay more attention to training my attention and to be more intentional about how I was sharing information. I connected Harold’s framework to content curation because it was useful for teaching the trade craft of content curation. This might be mean sharing less.

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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.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. Elearnings as a whole are very attractive, as they offer an inexpensive alternative to classroom training. If there is an opportunity to aid the teachings with text, then, by all means, include it as an option. Adaptability.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Brain Lacy & Associates provide services for nonprofits including augmentation, analysis of data, prospect research, major donor information, and matching gift data. In addition, the firm offers services in planning studies, strategic planning, development audits, board training, and executive searches for nonprofits across sectors.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. It was also the first in-person event I’ve had a chance to attend in two years. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

They 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 addition, I presented a webinar on training design and facilitated a session on nonprofit technology training design at NTC. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. This summer I was lucky enough to do a network training with June Holley. What are some ways that you have incorporated movement or polling technology into your training or meeting?

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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. and "Yes, but."

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

They’re basically training me with their subject line to stop opening their emails. You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain. So, let’s make sure that doesn’t happen to YOU.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do. Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life.

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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. Moving gets blood to the brain, getting blood brain helps people take in new ideas.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Citing a lack of trained teachers, TCS had built a PC-based curriculum for teaching reading in 40 hours. The program focuses on mainly teaching a core vocabulary of sight words in the the desired language, so that adults are able read the local newspaper.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 7, 2011

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. By the time the story ran, I was so in awe of the Art of Yoga Project's work that I enrolled in a yoga teacher training. But it still didn't prepare me for the nerves I faced when teaching at juvenile hall for the first time. You can follow her on Twitter at @emgollie. I asked "how can I help?"

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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. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options. It can be deadly on a webinar, when participants can easily be distracted and start doing other work like answering their email online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

The change is needed in the whole fraternity where in the sensitivity and readiness of lawyers to take up pro bono cases is encouraged by teaching them how effective social media tools can be for conversing with other like minded professionals etc. Megha Bhagat. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. meghabhagat@nls.ac.in.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

Why does this matter to those of us in the Training, Learning, and Development field? 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. In modern times, there is not a day that goes by in which I forego attempting to learn from my peers.

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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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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. Your body makes a great piece of cardiovascular and resistance training equipment. You’re combining your cardiovascular and resistance training together, so it’s a shorter workout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

These skills are: self-management and attention training. 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. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance.

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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. 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

AUGUST 29, 2017

My work consists of interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and coaching. Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. You can get a copy here and I’m teaching the Master the Art of Work/Life Balance in a Digital World online course that starts on September 7. 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. uses artificial intelligence that has been trained on billions of real-world examples. Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts.

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