Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Nov 21 2006
Are doing good and money at odds with one another?
Money may not make us evil, but the very sight of money may be able to affect our overall pattern of thinking and our general performance in life.
If this whole subliminal money thing affects people so much in every task, it presents an interesting situation for charitable organizations, whose goals often include recruiting volunteers, but also soliciting donations and goods. The thought of using money needs to be tied to the thought of doing good in this case. The aforementioned study suggests that at least some people are not very good at focusing on both those things at once. Maybe organizations need to develop two different types of soliciting techniques when it comes to keeping their work alive—one track focusing on recruiting volunteers who give time on tasks and another track focusing on bringing in donations of money and goods. And they might do best by using separate types of personalities to handle each of those tracks.
posted at: 06:53 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
Money may not make us evil, but the very sight of money may be able to affect our overall pattern of thinking and our general performance in life.
If this whole subliminal money thing affects people so much in every task, it presents an interesting situation for charitable organizations, whose goals often include recruiting volunteers, but also soliciting donations and goods. The thought of using money needs to be tied to the thought of doing good in this case. The aforementioned study suggests that at least some people are not very good at focusing on both those things at once. Maybe organizations need to develop two different types of soliciting techniques when it comes to keeping their work alive—one track focusing on recruiting volunteers who give time on tasks and another track focusing on bringing in donations of money and goods. And they might do best by using separate types of personalities to handle each of those tracks.
posted at: 06:53 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
