Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). And so it goes …… Yesterday I came to the conclusion that it isn’t an either/or, but a both/and.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Twitter Photo by Jennifer Barr @rjenbarr. Howard Rheingold, in his steps for building your network on Twitter , includes the step of “exploration” which is an invitation to serendipitous encounter. So, the point is that there is intention and mindfulness when you choose to explore. Healthy Mind Platter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Would participants learn more and have greater impact if panel designers incorporated different techniques such as visual learning and if they designed for more audience engagement? You need to engage the whole brain in learning. So, when it comes to panels, workshops, or other educational settings – design really matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. I've been looking for ways to reduce techno stress. The new framing for this familiar issue is one of balance.

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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. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." What are your best tips or techniques for balancing social productivity with personal productivity?

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques. A: We see very similar signs when we work with organizations.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

You can also use Twitter. I’ll keep an eye on Twitter as well. So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

That's why I incorporated a number of reflection techniques throughout the day - to help with the digestion and application. I also tested out a couple of instructional techniques for the first time and learned something myself. Right away, I introduce them to Twitter as a resource - the collaborative brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Almost a year ago, I got a phone call from James Leventhal who follows me on Twitter. The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. ArtsLab SF View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? When organizations use Twitter to promote themselves, it’s largely about playing a role. They want to connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Bringing your brain to what you are doing. As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens. I was lucky enough to walk the DISH with David last week and he shared a few books and resources about improvisation, plus one that I plucked from his Twitter stream.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

Here are several techniques you can use to strategically listen to and interact with the people you are targeting online: Know What People Are Saying About You. Twitter account, you'll really start to understand what types of. Twitter and Facebook are the de facto. What are your favorite. If you can. in those conversations."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. And there are three reasons I’d really value your participation: I want to suck your brain and revel in your inventiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2008

He talks about the impact of too much information on the human brain and considers how the human brain may evolve over time as the Internet matures and the amount of digital information increases. Some neurons in my brain made me connect back to Shenk's book I attended NDN's New Audiences, New Tools Forum. He said no.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. One of the most common gamification techniques is the progress bar. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. 1) Visual Storytelling. The best weapon against apathy is a compelling story.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We may like to share information via Twitter, but the information we share comes from the morning's newspaper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

Colors direct our eye movements, and therefore our brains and attention. Here’s my Twitter list of dataviz enthusiasts worth following. Try the layering technique or the slow reveal. Dot plots are like bar charts eyes are drawn to the circles at the end of the bars. Colors can make or break a chart.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

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. Holly and the rest of the NTEN team (including all the volunteers) did an incredible job inspiring of over 1800 people for three days. The conference was amazing! 6 Takeaways from #12NTC. 1) Email is Hot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Royal Opera House is crowdsourcing the storyline for an opera on Twitter in a month's time. (Hat Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. Photo by 1066.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok are great for engaging with younger donors. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. As you build out your online fundraising strategy, don’t forget to build in appreciation techniques that you can use to steward supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

You can also do that on Twitter. Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. So don’t be shy. We’d love to hear from you. Why do we need it?

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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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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok are great for engaging with younger donors. When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. As you build out your online fundraising strategy, don’t forget to build in appreciation techniques that you can use to steward supporters.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I like to employ a lazy Susan management technique. 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? Twitter | LinkedIn | The post [VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on Twitter. 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. Our prefrontal cortex of our brain is where. So you can use either of those. No problem. Don’t be shy.

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