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Guest Post by Holly Hight: When Controlling the Message Stifles Community (and Staff Morale)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It’s my job to listen to our members and empower them to get involved. Social media teaches us that the best way to get the message out is to foster conversation. We are taking a few steps in this direction, primarily by challenging our internal culture of message control and creating space for conversation across departments.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chip Conley was the keynote speaker at last week’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp and one thing that he said that has been stuck in my head is: “ You can have a job, a career, or calling “ The latter, a calling, is when you can tap into an internal motivation that fuels and inspires you. It resonated.

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How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. As author David Grossman says, "good internal communication gets the message out, but great internal communication helps employees connect the dots between overarching business strategy and their role.

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Plan Monthly Job Learning Days

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Plan Monthly Job Learning Days Having your employees learn more about what their fellow employees do is invaluable. When everyone knows how each job/position on your team fits together, your team can accomplish so much more. Its best when they meet in their respective offices/cubicles.

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Dreamforce 2021 for the Nonprofit and Education Sectors: A Hybrid Experience

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But the truth is, the Salesforce team did an amazing job of making attendees feel safe. We also heard from International Justice Mission – a great organization with a critically important mission. Make sure to check this session out if you are in the process of making the case of Salesforce to your board. Education Cloud.

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Give Positive Feedback. Don't Praise.

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, reports Nicholas Nigro, author of, The Everything Coaching and Mentoring Book.

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Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Okay, thats really not too surprising during these times of high unemployment.