Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 20, 2021

All these steps will help you take on more responsibility, expand your impact, and reap the benefits. The Working Job Description we present in Chapter 4 is a novel and very useful tool for integrating all this information into a clear, one-page message about the person, the job and the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. His methods make use of some of the online software that helps you keep track of time.

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Literacy Chapter Teach Skills 112

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2023

Fortunately, Gallo shares in her new book, Getting Along , practical insights, tools, and techniques for how to get along with each type of difficult co-worker you’ll likely encounter. Gallo devotes a book chapter to each of the eight archetypes. So, it's well worth you taking the initiative. Be—and stay—curious.

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Work Chapter Relationship Technique 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. NTEN has also used a similar crowdsourcing techniques to shape the NTC conference agenda. How else might you use crowdsourcing techniques for a face-to-face conference?

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Conference Childhood California Technique 95

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Capsulizes "Tips to Remember" for you at the end of each chapter. Honesty and Integrity. Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. Compassion.

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Culture People Create Companies 99

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

First, some housekeeping: Thanks to our new corporate parents , TechCrunch has the day off tomorrow, so consider this the last chapter of The Exchange for this week. A big thanks to the TechCrunch crew who covered the startup deluge live, and Natasha and Christine for helping build out our notes during our last few Twitter Spaces.

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Track Newsletter Trend Chapter 95

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Allen and Mitchell Kusy , is a very compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. What you'll find is basically 50 one- to two-page chapters , each highlighting a leadership tip. The Little Book of Leadership Development , by Scott J.

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Chapter Leadership Tips Team 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. This is similar to the pomodoro technique.

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Reflection Technique Teach Measure 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Campaign Online Chapter Channel 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

The piece provides some practical recipes that can help build collaboration muscles while getting stuff done. But, does your entire organization treat it this way? Is culture of philanthropy embedded in the way that everyone does their work? But, does your entire organization treat it this way? … Read More

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Philanthropy Culture Create Chapter 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S.

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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?” Flanking Techniques: This approach can be used when there isn’t a customer base or media engagement is negative.

Marketing 101

Marketing Campaign Integration Develop 101

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

My goal is to help you reduce the time you spend in a negative state and increase the time you are positive,” explains the book’s author, Anthony Iannarino. Your inner voice isn’t always helpful. The Negativity Fast is an inspiring new approach to improving your outlook, leadership techniques, resilience, and productivity.

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Technique Chapter Exercise Lesson 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2009

I just finished up the Social Media Strategy Game workshop with EPIP Chapter leaders. The game uses a deck of cards to help a group to brainstorm a social media strategy. The techniques of face-to-face networking strategies are very much transferable to online tools. EPIP Slides View more presentations from kanter.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

More specifically, he shares simple actionable techniques for staying ahead in an accelerating world and massive amounts of information – for many of us, information overload. Filtering : discerning which information best serves you helps surface valuable signals above the pervasive noise. It’s all about choosing to thrive on overload?rather

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Exercise Relationship Chapter Technique 73

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Nick Sonnenberg Play special attention to the Three Key Takeaways and Pro Tips that expertly summary each respective chapter's teachings.

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Team Work Help Tools 69

NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI can help your organization avoid a technology purchase that is a huge mistake or avoid not investing in a technology that could return many dividends. The ultimate question you need to answer: How does the technology help staff get their work done or how does it improve our ability to serve clients? Focus On Value. So, stay tuned.

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Measure ROI Technology Nonprofit 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. So I thought I’d share some details on how the exchange worked, and some insights the group learned that helped them increase their impact. What impact did all this have on communities?

Goal 101

Goal Knowledge Share Giving 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The NY Chapter of the Red Cross offers Ten Tips in this YouTube Video. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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Social Media Nptech Ning Social 91

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2014

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. What you''ll find is basically 50 one- to two-page chapters, each highlighting a leadership tip. Some tips seem easy and no-brainers.

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Leadership Tips Chapter Authoring 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). What do the experts say? I found this video interview of Robert Scoble with Howard Rheingold about Scoble’s curation techniques and tools.

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Content Children Social Media Twitter 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Results Data Nonprofit Social Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Participatory Nonprofit Leadership Skills 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Interest: The nonprofit works with the influencer to co-create or share educational content that helps the influencer’s network understand how to use the program or build skills. Lee Odom recommends a few techniques for finding influencers based on keyword research in this post. Influencer marketing is a long game.

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Social Media Influence Media Strategy 118

TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

To chase after it, the duo tells TechCrunch that Kolkata is about to embark on a new chapter of its business: after spending years bootstrapping with revenue from their agency business, Kolkata Chai is taking on external capital for the first time. The Sanyal brothers estimate the national tea market represents a $12.7

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, reading Eduardo Briceño ’s bold and highly applicable book, The Performance Paradox , will help you break free of chronic performance. Question: How best should leaders help ensure their employees spend enough time in the Learning Zone? Part 1 of the book is called “Driving Individual Growth.”

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Learning Free Culture Reflection 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Your posts on Birthday Wishes definitely helped give us the courage & a blueprint to dive in, but it is only one rung on the ladder of engagement. . Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection. Stay tuned to Acumen Fund's blog for more news on this soon!

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Causes Build Social Media Demonstration 89

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Capsulizes "Tips to Remember" for you at the end of each chapter. Honesty and Integrity. Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. Compassion.

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Culture People Create Chapter 59

See3

APRIL 9, 2024

Each persona has demographic information that helps make them real for the viewer, including things like age, race, gender and even a name. These personas were developed into print materials — including a deck of cards, posters and a flip book — which all help put Make-A-Wish’s audience top of mind for their communications staff.

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Audience Story Chapter Storytelling 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” That reinvention led him to that 1973 hospital security director job.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods. I like the concept of self-awareness as “curiosity in the moment,” and how it can help break bad habits. This can help you figure out how to replace the bad habit with a better routine.

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Work Journal Awareness Track 64

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

In addition, if you’re personally facing these challenges, you can use the book to better understand how you can ask others for help and support. The key is to use our voices and choices to elevate others. But don’t abdicate your power to advocate for others.

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Voice Chapter Exercise Action 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Twitter Analysis Giving Campaign 87

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. What you'll find is basically 50 one- to two-page chapters, each highlighting a leadership tip. Some tips seem easy and no-brainers.

Leadership 52

Leadership Tips Chapter Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

They will help when they are invited to. But one of the most important lessons is this: once you’ve figured out how to tap the surplus in a way that people care about, others can replicate your technique, over and over, around the world.&#. Each chapter is takes us through a look at the future by examining the past.

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Social Media Participatory Lesson Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

In addition, it is helpful to watch newsfeeds and hashtags on Twitter while the news is breaking to capture and share other visuals that may spontaneously burst into social networks. (Here’s an example of some of the creativity that erupted after the Supreme Court decision was announced.). Click to see the full infographic.

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Social Media Media Social Content 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Capsulizes "Tips to Remember" for you at the end of each chapter. Honesty and Integrity. Leading by example and encouraging open and honest communication. Compassion.

Culture 52

Culture People Create Chapter 52