Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions. I had an opportunity to interview Meico about being a Mindful Techie. Here’s what I learned: How did you get started working in the nonprofit sector?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Fortunately, Wiggins’s new book, The New CEO , fills that educational gap by teaching you the 10 components that make for a successful CEO transition – whether you are a newly announced or newly appointed CEO. Be honest about the culture—how you assess it, work to shift it, and ensure it does not derail your transition.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. Eisenmann features all his research findings and expert advice in his new book, Why Startups Fail. Some of the advice on how to succeed as an entrepreneur can backfire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

The book is based on a five-year research project where Janus interviewed hundreds innovative nonprofit organizations. Her book is based on traveling the country and visiting and interviewing dozens of social entrepreneurs who started nonprofits such as Teach for America, City Year, DonorsChoose, charity:water, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. I taught in the Bronx for two years through Teach For America while working toward my M.A.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

And you do that by: Creating the right image for yourself Increasing your public profile across your organization Exerting influence by driving change and inspiring people In an exclusive interview, Garfinkle answered these questions about his book: Question : How does a humble, introverted reader gain comfort to embrace your suggested actions?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2008

She is on the National Advisory Council of DonorsChoose , teaches interview and resume skills to low income individuals with StreetWise and The Opportunity Network , knocked on doors during Hillary Clinton's campaign, and is an Advisor to The Extraordinaries. There is plenty of work that needs to be done in society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. That’s why I’m sharing the tips, tricks, and insider advice to transform you into a data nerd. Collecting and using data is hard work! Why get good at Excel? Ask for help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. Then, if all works well, I will bring in Robin for a discussion. That’s why I invited Robin Good to skype into my session.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

My senior year of college I knew that I wanted to do work that made a difference, but I didn't know what kind of work that would be. I was a sociology major, but wasn't attracted to social work. I'd worked at a DC nonprofit the summer after my junior year that focused on policy work, but that wasn't a fit for me either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Interview with Donald Marinelli - Parents and their kids - web2.0 He gave an entertaining talk about how technology has made this generation very different, his center's work, and why it was important for arts people to get involved with technology. "I have a work study student to turn on my computer. He was hilarious.

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APRIL 22, 2021

Through that work, we’ve seen the common questions that associations face when it comes to hiring an eLearning consultant— and now, we’re here to answer them: What is an eLearning consultant? To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Drawing on extensive research, including a comprehensive, original workplace survey and in-depth interviews with Millennial managers, Millennials Who Manage , offers teaches Millennial readers how to overcome workplace perceptions and become great leaders. My advice is to accept the inevitability of both.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The principles she shared come from her background as a journalist and current work as a producer. During interviews being presents means even allowing silence so your subject can move at a pace that is comfortable for them. However, don’t be afraid to start with the end of the story and work your way to the beginning!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

But the best part was the chance to work with Ellie Schindelman , director of education, who is a dynamic trainer – on the design of the program. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

How much of what you read in books and on Blogs about how to lead Millennials do you believe is good advice. Good advice. I love hiring athletes because high-level sports teach two core leadership skills: professional will and curiosity. It doesn’t feel like work. Why or why not? What inspired you to co-author your book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

The past five years I have been teaching Spanish at an Elementary School and serve as the school???s I wanted to combine my two passions in teaching: Foreign Languages and Technology. t feel I can ever balance my online life with being a parent and working full time the way I would like to. s webmaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

I presented a master class on The Networked Nonprofit as pre-conference session, a mini-workshop on the Happy Healthy Nonprofit , and a plenary session on engaging donors moderated by Macelo Jambeiro, a talented digital strategist that works for an agency called Alder & Lang and previously with Change.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

And future leaders need to try new things, foster innovation and learn from what works and what doesn’t. Personally, it’s something that I value greatly about working in the nonprofit sector. I went through a staff interview before I was hired as an Executive Director. And here’s reality. People do make mistakes. The problem?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also engage with alumni about their professional work experiences, especially if it is directly connected to your program. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Images work for engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I met Laura at Boston Podcamp very briefly and grabbed her card so I could catch up with her for an interview for Blogher. For the first time in a long time, I was concerned about finding work. ve presented my 15SecondPitch workshop at: Streetwise Partners and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. This year I???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge. After all, teaching others improves retention and helps consolidates one's own knowledge. One piece of advice that I learned from Cliff Atkinson's book was to think about your presentation key points as tweets so people can retweet them. look here ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 31, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. The Lodestar Center has two -- Anne Byrne is the other Professional-in-Residence who works with me. I’ve done some work with it. Pat Lewis Sr.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

Today's transcript is from my interview with the founders of Back to Earth , an organic catering and outdoor adventure company. One of the things I've enjoyed the most about interviewing people for this podcast is seeing the similarities and connections that arise between people. I hope that you enjoy their interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." It is called " The Art of Social Web " Coolcat Teacher blog gives a wonderful post about how blogging is a work in progress - she concludes blogging is more like football than a once in a lifetime performance at Carnegie Hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

In June, I will start full-time at the social marketing firm based in Washington, DC where I've been completing a fellowship, working on the client team representing the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Academics and work aside, my passion is working with and on behalf of nonprofits. Tell me about your thesis.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

When I first started investigating superstar Convio administrators for the purposes of my Connection Café interviews , Brian’s name was mentioned time and time again. If you really want to understand something, teach it to someone else. Brian for CMH: Redesigning how our TeamRaisers work was fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

.  I asked folks who was doing interesting social change work with Aloha spirit.      I was to track her down for an interview. And if you are skilled you know how to respond to it in a way that works for you. Cynthia is convinced surfing can help Hawaii's at-risk youth. 

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Gender equity work in math and science isn’t exactly woo-worthy. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. I knew that coming to the organization and I had this look and the website to work with. What’s so special about the GMSP? How dov you reach today’s girl?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Below is an edited transcript of my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jose in late August. What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We don't work with start-ups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. So, I changed delivery tactics and it worked! Note to self: Need to have a back-up small group exercise that I could do when the game won't work). Then have the group work on coming up with those. (2)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Recently, I discovered Sarah Davies of FreedomforIP and after listening to her elevator pitch online from the IgniteSeattle event, I asked her for an interview. I like to build things and take things apart to see how they work. I've found that my generation has a habit of teaching ourselves new technologies, and I am no exception.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

She sent me the names of four women from Up with People with descriptions of their work and why she thought they were Solutionary Women. One of the women, DeeAnn Resk, is originally from California and used to work at an international development office in Washington D.C. What do you enjoy the most about your work with Up with People?

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