sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model. Is it just a fad?

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 17, 2024

Are the good times for nonprofit fundraisers, if not back, at least on the horizon? During boom times, fundraisers (as do most marketers) are more likely to increase attention on acquisition efforts and reduce their focus on retaining donors. And a few mentioned AI-enhanced door stewardship efforts and predictive modeling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If If you are ready to embrace change as a central element of your growth strategy, this book is for you.” Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sadly, many current change efforts that try to incorporate knowledge work for social good end up with disjointed or burdensome lists of isolated activities that really aren’t very engaging or valuable. Knowledge, however, is socially constructed and located specifically in place and time. Fast forward to today…. Data is a decision.

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sgEngage

MAY 28, 2024

But there must also be a different way to understand the nonprofit CFO role, by asking what questions plague the minds, hearts, and souls of today’s nonprofit CFOs. One of the questions that you should always ask when you’re interacting with your program and development teams is, “How can finance help your department grow and maximize impact?”

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sgEngage

MARCH 3, 2023

If you are still hosting the data and applications that you’re using to run your core operations and development efforts—from your accounting software to your donor relationship management and fundraising systems—on premises, you are not setting your future organization up for success. Their business models depend on this.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Business Considerations: Elements like budget, licensing type, training needs, and change management are also essential considerations in CMS selection. Licensing Methods The licensing model of a CMS plays a pivotal role in long-term costs. Maintenance Costs: Over time, every system requires maintenance.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Let’s take a closer look at the benefits your organization can experience when you begin data warehousing: Streamlined workflows: A data warehouse allows your nonprofit to save time and effort. Effective impact measurement and reporting: Nonprofits rely on data warehouses to track and measure their impact over time.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

At a time when as many as one in three bachelor’s degree recipients in the U.S. This leaves students questioning if they can make more money more quickly—and avoid student debt—by entering the workplace with a certificate instead of a college degree. Can higher education keep up with such precipitously evolving demands?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

They should then immediately follow that question with: “Should they be a qualified professional?” Too often, amateur accidental techies -- nonprofit staffers who have taught themselves technology skills -- find themselves in over their heads trying to develop databases, but forgetting to do business process modeling or change management.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return. When a learner accumulates a sufficient balance of CE credits over a certain span of time, she achieves maintenance of certification. Peak of Inflated Expectations. We are all for it.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2016

Background resources on technology change management and how tech training can support adoption of technology at your organization. E-learning videos and handouts on adult education best practices and learning models. TechSoup's new learning platform provides you with just-in-time training. Why Online Training?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

As Charlene Li pointed out, " Change management processes take years - you don't change over night. I've seen this model with nonprofits and I'd add that the other downside is that the implementation isn't strategic. I've also seen this model in nonprofits and it isn't effective when silo culture gets in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'm defining failure as a social media strategy or program implementation that wasn't perfect or didn't work as well as you expected especially the first few times you did it. We don't value the learning and use that insight to improve the social media strategy the second or third or fourth time around.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

The data now proves non-centralized teams run considerably more effective digital programs than centralized teams in which most, if not all, digital work is managed by just one team. In 2014, centralized and hybrid models were also nearly tied for first at 40% and 38% respectively. no leader) have mostly disappeared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. A conversational approach is not an expert or a group of experts talking the whole time.

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Neon CRM

JULY 12, 2023

How do you know when it’s time for your nonprofit to find a new CRM solution? What kinds of questions should you be asking your team members and potential vendors? If you’re looking to switch CRMs, you probably have a million questions. Those concerns are not providing an organization with a good sustainable growth model.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A, and like Kishshana said a minute ago, we’d love to hear from you. And I don’t know how she has time for all this stuff. Steven: All the time. My first time in really understanding what that meant was in 2008. So use the chat, the Q&A.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2010

Sunday, May 9, 2010 Ask These Five Questions If you are leading a business or a nonprofit organization, take the hour or two to read Peter F. Druckers book, The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Organization. Other times, an organizations results dont fully meet what the customer values most.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010 5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers I really like author Paul R. Timms advice to stop asking your customers the "typical" questions and instead ask them open-ended questions. These open-ended questions will let your customers really express their ideas, opinions and needs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 How Do You Answer These Leadership Questions? Open Leadership author Charlene Li reminds leaders to periodically ask themselves these "open leadership skills assessment" questions: Do I seek out and listen to different points of view? Do I actively manage how I am authentic?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performance Review Here are five important questions you, as a manager and leader, should ask during employee performance reviews: What have I done to help - or hinder - your job performance? 5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Welcome Ideas At Any Time From Anyone Great ideas for your business can come at anytime from anyone on your team. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 12, 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010 The next time you stay at a Marriott hotel look in the nightstand drawer for Marriotts booklet that highlights its milestones and tells the Marriott story. ► August (20) ▼ July (5) Share The Bad News Run Better Meetings The next time you stay at a Marriott hotel look in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2012

Book Giveaway: I’ll buy a copy of Marketing in the Round for the commentor who answers this question: ”How could Marketing in the Round help your nonprofit get more out of its marketing efforts?” The book describes “marketing in the round” as working in a hub and spoke model as illustrated above.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

While we used to use change management strategies to help soothe the fears of those who would reject the new database, now we need something slightly more radical: entirely new organizations. I'm a long-time fan of Maddie Grant , so I was excited to see her and co-author Jamie Notter tackle this very topic in Humanize.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I'd managed for ages by then, and I'd certainly put in place change management. Many museum staff realize that the model of more-with-less is unsustainable. We've heard the question, who should pay for art ? Reducing the amount of work everyone has so that most people can leave work on time? By Robert J.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employee As a leader, the time will come when you will have to speak with an employee about his or her poor performance. Perhaps that time is now as you conduct year-end performance reviews. Give him time to make his improvement. You made your point.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. Give feedback in a timely manner and make it individualized and specific. Be willing to change your decisions. Make conversation with your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. Rating someone based on a short time period instead of the entire evaluation period 8.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010 Lets Build A List Lets build a list of the most important attributes of a good leader, and lets only use one word (or a hyphenated word) at a time to describe each attribute. Ill ask a similar question in some of the leadership groups on LinkedIn and then will publish all our words in one list to share with everyone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Proper mentoring takes a commitment from both parties and it takes time to develop and to reap the rewards of the relationship. When seeking out a mentor, think about these questions: 1. Does this person have the time needed to properly mentor me? And, do I also have the time to devote to a mentoring relationship?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Brown recently wrote in Smart Companies Thinking Bigger magazine, that you should “ask a group of current, former and potential customers the following questions:" If you’re a current or former customer, why did you start using us? What have we done in the past to make your biggest challenges more difficult?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2011

5 Open-Ended Questions To Ask Your Customers How To Produce An Effective Company Blog Leadership Tips From Good Boss, Bad Boss How To Write A Business Plan In About One Hour ► October (11) How To Write Your Company's Core Values How To Be A Green Leader Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Be A Manager Who Makes Decisions A manager who cant make a decision or who cant make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the managers team. 5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

To do that, you need to ask specific questions that may not be ones you currently include in your exit interviews. Fortunately, Richard Finnegan, shares in his new book, Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad , four key questions you should include in your exit interviews: Why did you decide to leave us?

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