Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

It’s a results-driven guidebook that teaches you how to recover quickly from adversity, thrive on stress, preform on the emotional edge, and create a motivating environment (instead of trying to motivate people). This is an excellent book for leaders at any stage in their leadership career. 12 – Leaders have balance.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Conversations with essential vendors – Contact your provider and explain the situation. The need for local pest control, insurance, copier lease, or related services may change, therefore you should re-evaluate annually. Lots of people running nonprofits glaze over when it’s time to review financial statements or work in Excel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Leadership skills are only just about our inner-selves, it is also how we relate to other people and manage those relationships, especially in the workplace. One of the workshop exercises was to teach leaders a process they can facilitate back in their organizations to begin the discussion about how to activate a culture of well being.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. At this time on a Sunday, most donors will be finished with their weekend errands and are likely available for a conversation.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When evaluating the effectiveness of eLearnings it is vital that we keep in mind exactly what we are trying to accomplish; then craft exceedingly mindful learning experiences to ensure the highest possible return on our investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. Online technology has increased our capacity to maintain weak ties with people, and has value. ” Would you ask or do a favor for this connection?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s a results-driven guidebook that teaches you how to recover quickly from adversity, thrive on stress, preform on the emotional edge, and create a motivating environment (instead of trying to motivate people). This is an excellent book for leaders at any stage in their leadership career. 12 – Leaders have balance.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

They “consume” or “buy” who you are, what you do, the values you stand for, and how you approach your work and treat the people you work with. It’s not about pandering to people with money. It’s about lifting people up—because a rising tide raises all boats. Yes, your nonprofit is a brand. And, yes, your donors are consumers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 9, 2019

It’s a results-driven guidebook that teaches you how to recover quickly from adversity, thrive on stress, preform on the emotional edge, and create a motivating environment (instead of trying to motivate people). This is an excellent book for leaders at any stage in their leadership career. 12 – Leaders have balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. I was immediately thrown into a situation of dynamic teaching and learning. Social Media Trainer's Bag of Tricks View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

People haven’t reinvented school yet. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills – change their behaviors through games. That’s teaching.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2018

It’s a results-driven guidebook that teaches you how to recover quickly from adversity, thrive on stress, preform on the emotional edge, and create a motivating environment (instead of trying to motivate people). This is an excellent book for leaders at any stage in their leadership career. 12 – Leaders have balance.

Life 40

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 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. My professional role includes three aspects: teaching, research, and service. Meet the folks who are here to help you and your nonprofit succeed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The people with skills are out there. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. The Feng Shui of Good Teaching. ” In that spirit, a few thoughts. Even harder to incorporate “going meta.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup."

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Bring your CFO and/or board treasurer into the conversation too. Board Evaluations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection. I would add another way to add or get value and that is join the conversation in the comments of follow curators and ask them your questions. Critical thinking is the process we use to reflect on, access and judge the assumptions underlying our ideas or other people’s ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. org before?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 23, 2014

number of people served) to impacts (e.g. what difference it made in those people’s lives and the community as a whole). Moreover, this is part of a larger ongoing conversation within our society. We cannot do this in a vacuum- we must begin with a broader culture of evaluation and creativity within each organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

In my training work with emerging nonprofit leaders , teaching how to ask powerful questions and hone your listening skills is part of the leadership development curriculum and workshops. Do nonprofits and foundations listen to the people they seek to help and act on what they hear? More is Not Always Better—Evaluate Frequency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Those of us who have planned, executed and evaluated these types of contests for good on behalf of major brands have done so with the best intentions and not to “cause wash” — i.e., buy good brand karma under the guise of philanthropy. Just evaluating all the submissions can take many, many people hours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. We had a rich conversation about overall design – the process of vetting participants, participant expectations, and their commitment to do the work. Honor the more advanced participants and make them teaching assistants.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

People haven't reinvented school yet. Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. That's teaching. So how do you do that?

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NTEN

APRIL 26, 2012

These quotes and the rest found in this post are from the NTC evaluation.) Getting to know so many wonderful people in the non-profit sector - it simply amazes me everyone's so passionate about what they are doing! It’s also a success that you see and know there are really people out there grappling with the same issues you are.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook. Knowledge is a lofty word.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

If trust feels weak on either side of that equation, it can help to foster regular conversations about it. Most EDs are driven people who want to make a difference, so they value thoughtful, constructive input on both sides of the spectrum. How else might you begin to cement a solid relationship between your ED and the board?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. Bob concurs. &# DoSomething.Org understands the value of data-driven social change and has backed that up by creating a “data team&# of three staff people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. How to begin to have conversations to understand it.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Besides the fact that people just don’t seem to do that anymore, it’s made me reflect on a lot of things. I actually called people on the phone to get information for my work.). Think beyond nonprofit borders , ensuring you have all the people at the table who can really help you accomplish your objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

We spent a lot of time identifying grantees and other funders, but also people who be “thought catalysts” or subject matter experts in “21 st Century advocacy” to bring into the room. How might we better invest in young people and/or other key folks so they stay in the movement? Of course, there were some prizes involved!).

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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. I lecture in academic courses occasionally, and I do community teaching. If you ask a group of people, “Have you been touched by philanthropy?”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me. Really a lot.

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Gyrus

MAY 17, 2016

5 Key Factors Differentiating Training and Development Purpose Training teaches employees specific skills and knowledge required for their current role. Conversely, development is a long-term process. Balancing ILT and eLearning Re-evaluating the mix of in-person and virtual training post-pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

There has to be a tradtional set of volumes -- To get people talking across disciplines and sectors: Credibility Identity Ethnicity Ecology of Games Unintended Consequences Civic Engagement Will announce different topics. Public conversation about what games mean and contribution to the general good. Written essays from kids.

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