Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 18, 2022

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. Once everyone has a chance to see everyone else’s stations, the original team looks at and synthesizes the additional input. We worked in small teams. Bull’s Eye.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. First, there is a design and planning phase. Step 1: Removing Resistance.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It is finding what works for your team, managing change, and maybe even changing the culture. As fundraisers, we spend so much time trying to connect prospective donors to the mission of our organizations, but we don’t always remind our teams how their own work is vital to the mission. Keeping officers motivated is tough.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Crises offer an opportunity for nonprofit professionals to step into leadership roles and requires those already in leadership to manage effectively to ensure that the board and the executive leadership teams are engaged. According to Crisis Planning in the Nonprofit Sector: Should We Plan for Something Bad If It May Not Occur? ,

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See3

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

I don’t have a complete articulation of what that is yet, but two things got my attention recently that feel different. phenomena of portable content and user generated content is just the transition to something deeper.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Begin with a phased approach. The team at Association Analytics is here to help you make data analytics your number one priority. Paint a picture that your audience will recognize themselves in.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

But after a busy weekend for the team, Cellino walked away with the prize anyway. Meanwhile, at the National Eye Institute, a team of scientists led by Kapil Bharti have been manufacturing induced pluripotent stem cells from patient blood samples, and have shown, in animal studies , that these cells can integrate with the retina.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

He then quotes Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce.com, who has described this phase of the IT revolution with the acronym SOCIAL: “ S , he says, is for speed — everything is now happening faster. With this in mind, I propose a different articulation of the acronym SOCIAL: S is for society. O , he says, stands for open.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 20, 2024

During this crucial phase, organizational leaders and stakeholders come together to define the aim of the campaign beyond just raising funds. A rough “case for support” is drafted, articulating the need for the campaign and its benefits to potential donors and the community at large.

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sgEngage

APRIL 6, 2022

Komen, Event 360, Peerworks Consulting, and our own Cathexis Partners team as part of the virtual conference, It’s a Peer-to-Peer World. Articulate your goals. . Start by articulating your virtual campaign, in-person and/or hybrid event goals so you can then create your email communications plan to support those goals.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. Coming together in this way enabled the team to also name some shared parameters that could be used as a decision-making framework to better engage the board and even the broader community. Philanthropy loves “new” things.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 9, 2024

The name change to Momentive Software, according to an announcement, is to articulate helping organizations streamline business processes and heighten funding awareness to fuel mission growth. Additional details surrounding the brand rollout were not announced. “We

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

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Mentoring Work Articulate Authoring 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

Mentoring 52

Mentoring Articulate Authoring Relationship 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2020

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

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Mentoring Articulate Authoring Relationship 52

Candid

MAY 20, 2021

This is part of the reason that many nonprofits have completely shut out the idea of a capital campaign over the past year, let alone growing their development teams. Articulate a simple, clear, and compelling case for support that ties together your needs, your community, and the impact that increased capacity will have.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

But dealmaking is idiosyncratic: a few investors might be content to make a deal over coffee, but early-stage teams still need a sturdy pitch deck or memo they can leave behind. This should include how you identified the problem, the value of a solution and why your team is uniquely positioned to solve it. Notably, this goes both ways.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2017

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Content Strategy : How the content inventory and audit serve as the foundation for the content strategy and a description of other deliverables that we might produce during this phase. If your organization needs help with a website design, check out our team portfolio. Information Architecture.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It may also be a bit intimidating—creating work we are proud of that WOWs our team or client and checks off all needs can be challenging. . We ask the team to identify the most important message the illustration must convey and work to understand who needs to receive this message. Understand the client’s vision.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2014

Purposes for the Visual Design phase include: Agreeing on a creative vision and personality for the web presence. Some organizations come to us with a very clearly articulated brand that has accompanying logos, fonts, colors, photography, copywriting and more. The visual design details the final look and feel of the website.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Articulate Authoring Relationship 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Articulate Authoring Relationship 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Articulate Authoring Relationship 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2017

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike.

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Mentoring Articulate Authoring Relationship 40

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Indeed, while many firms say they’re still in the information-gathering phase of what could become a sweeping new trend, others are diving in headfirst. TC: Can you talk about your “promote,” meaning how the economics are going to work for your team? AJ: Ours [terms] are very standard to the typical SPAC.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Articulating content priorities for your homepage and other key pages/sections of your web presence. The data we gathered via Analytics during the User Research phase and during Stakeholder Discovery is key to assessing content performance. This phase is where the new web presence starts to take shape with a Sitemap and Wireframes.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 17, 2014

During visual design, we treated each breakpoint individually to ensure we articulated the ideal look and feel for each screen size. To maximize event participation, we ensured the find-a-walk and find-a-team search forms and search results were displayed appropriately on any device. Designs for each Break-point. Search Results.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 10, 2022

At the beginning of the project, outline why your nonprofit is making the change and communicate that with your project team members. It impacts every phase of transition, from articulating a vision to easing staff through disruption and helping project team members adapt to the new status quo. A “Why” Statement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. I wrote about the practice of Team Tweeting here. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms. Monica Wahengbam.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I am not new to the idea about what it means to lead when the tide has shifted, but what I really had to come to understand over the last several years was what it means to really lead and manage your time and manage your team when your reality continues to change and the only thing that feels constant is change. Oh, my gosh.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2013

Having a leadership team aligned across an organization articulating the purpose, value, and rationale for a project goes a long way towards getting stakeholders and end-users pulling the proverbial rope in the same direction. Has this team clearly defined and agreed to desired project outcomes? Defining Requirements.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

When they’re based on solid user research, personas can be great tools for helping your design team and internal stakeholders truly understand your audiences. Purposes for personas include: Help synthesize and articulate what we learn about constituents through user research. Build consensus around target audiences. Deliverables.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? For example, you might seek board members who have former leadership experience, work well within a team, and are impeccably organized and punctual. Since your nonprofit is just starting, you don’t need to worry about building a huge team. Hold interviews.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Your team, subject matter experts (SMEs), and eLearning consultants work together to author content for your courses. Let’s begin with an overview of course authoring software before diving into the tools your team can access. The type of authoring environment that will benefit your team’s process.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This post will cover key considerations after you’ve thoroughly defined the project, secured sponsorship, and documented risks: getting the right people and team structure in place, managing changes to the project, and preparing the user population for a successful go-live.

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