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Mindful News Consumption Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One communications director shared that she scans the headlines every morning and only goes deep into stories that are relevant to their communications strategy and limits her time. She is also very mindful while reading the news to monitor her reactions and emotions. Here’s a humorous take on this from the New Yorker.

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Creating a Space for Nonprofits to Connect & Share Insights

Saleforce Nonprofit

Is there expertise we can share? This big little idea was simply to hold space for CDOs to talk about what’s stressing them out and share experiences, ideas, and lessons learned with others who are facing the same challenges and finding their way through. “I have enjoyed being with like-minded leaders on a consistent basis.

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Mindful or Mind Full Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My talk is a call to action to nonprofits to be more intentional and mindful in how they curate and consume content from social networks. I’ll be talking about the art and practice of good curation and also share some techniques for staying focused while doing working on social media for practitioners. Resources.

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How to Support People When Sharing Their Individual Stories

The Storytelling Non-profit

We need to collect and share individual stories that highlight our organization’s impact and show the difference we’re making in the world. Yet, in this context we are holding space for people to share some truly special or important moments in their lives. As you can see, I was nervous about sharing this story about myself.

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A Mind on Design: Things to Avoid When Building a WordPress Blog

Byte Technology

Indeed, millions upon millions of individuals take to the Internet every day to share their thoughts, opine on a particular subject, share information specific to a certain theme or industry and even just rant and rave about any old thing. But what makes one blog better than the next? are all topics you should avoid divulging.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] Does Sharing A Campaign’s Fundraising Goal Drive More Donations?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s a good idea to announce and share a financial goal for their fundraising campaign. . As you’ll see, sharing a goal can motivate people to give and might be a compelling enough reason to try it out for your campaign. .

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#13NTC Session: Mindful or Mindfull Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post serves as a resource page for a session on mindfulness with Rob Cottingham and Jana Byington-Smith. To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. Mindfulness' Additional Resources.

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