Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

It is based on thorough research and conversations with more than 100 visionary leaders from all over the world. Also, each changer is self-contained and includes proven techniques that can be easily and immediately applied. Each chapter contains practical strategies for using AI to expand your leadership capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Sense-making is the ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed – and in a world with so much information, it is a critical workplace skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets? In addition to analytics, you will also need to get feedback from actual users of the site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. The most important listening literacy skills are. Use Some Creative Thinking Skills. What else makes up listening literacy skills?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online conversations. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You may agree with this or not, but I think it’s safe to say that the skill of listening online is one that all nonprofits should learn – it’s essential for anyone who wants to harness the power of the social web in their online strategy. Failure is imminent if you don’t learn how to master this skill. Have I left anything out?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Here, I'm offering three specific and simple techniques that can help you become better at staying focused, and also recover more quickly when your mind drifts into unrelated territories or someone interrupts your focus: First Technique: Use a Countdown Timer. Second Technique: Micro-Planning™ Each 40-Minute Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Fluency in social media skills. Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

(You can register and download the issue here for free and listen to the webinar recording here ) The main idea is that good curation skills can build staff expertise and avoid the pain of information overload. The list of skills might, at first blush, feel like a lot of extra work. It isn’t once you’ve established good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others. An ability to understand and interpret emotions can help employees have better conversations.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 23, 2024

Communication and Leadership Skills Development with LMS GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Effective Communication Training (ECT) is an approach focused on improving an individual’s ability to convey and understand information from others. An ability to understand and interpret emotions can help employees have better conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Identify Specific Network Weaving Techniques To Integrate. I’ve been having this conversation with several groups lately, Network of Networked Funders and Network Weaving Sandbox , comprised of individual who are intentionally approaching their work with a network mindset. 3. Where are the gaps? Visualize Your Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of August 16th).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I have a repertoire of icebreakers and always like to discover new ones. I noticed that Jen Bokoff from the Foundation Center was re-tweeted a photo of an icebreaker she used at her conference session on facilitation techniques. She kindly offered to cross post her blog post about icebreakers here. Icebreakers Can Be Fun!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. 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? And, the eBook is free!

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data – so we don’t look at it.” The skills are out there. ” I hear this too often from nonprofits. from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Co-Create: At this higher level, the conversations lead to co-creation. What are the techniques and methods for moving people up the ladder? Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Measuring the effectiveness of your marketing efforts: Set yourself up to track your marketing efforts success by measuring key performance indicators (KPIs) like return on investment, click-through rate, conversion rate, and more. Creating a better user experience (UX) on your website could increase conversion rates by 400%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

At the end of the month, I’ll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call “ Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit ,” an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to learn tips and techniques for scaling social in their organizations.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My predecessor, Stephanie Richardson, summed it up nicely : “When we think of Data Culture, it really is about bringing people along for that transformation, and not only enabling them with the right technology, but also with the skills, the support, the community, the learning—all of those things that go with trying to change someone’s behavior.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Content curators have integrated this skill into their daily routine. Professional development used to be about getting trained or acquiring a specific skill. You don’t need to do it for hours, but a little bit everyday will help you develop and hone the skills. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

And, if you've been a leader for a long time, how about taking a few minutes to run through the list and scoring yourself on how well you carry out each leadership skill? Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Don't delay tough conversations 65. Don't micromanage 2. Don't be a bottleneck 3. Focus on outcomes, not minutiae 4.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They go above and beyond to drive thought-provoking conversations about data across all social channels. You’ll find them talking about topics like Data Culture, Business Intelligence, Data Skills, and more. Being a Tableau Ambassador allows me to help others learn Tableau and empower them with analytics and data visualization skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I’ve written about these techniques here ). Do you have a preferred method? What do you want to learn from working together?

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Search engine optimization, PR, paid marketing, emails, social — marketing and communications is crowded with techniques, channels, solutions and acronyms. Leveraging this material with best practice techniques enables any startup, no matter how limited its budget, to run an effective marketing campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Technology can be a huge barrier for inclusion if we don’t consider the digital divide of skills, tools, and Internet speeds when selecting platforms and tools for meetings. Consider what tools and techniques, digital or otherwise, can be used to maximize their interaction with the in-room attendees.

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The Verge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Reich, an electrical engineer himself who owns a software company, had a better ability than most to assess if Grand had the skills to pull off the hack. After a single conversation, he knew they’d found the right person. “I Then he spent three months doing research and attacking his practice wallets with various techniques.

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The Next Web

MARCH 30, 2013

The right developer on the other hand can start you off on the correct footing, pivot any incorrect tech choices, network to pull in more skilled coders and motivate them to do their best work. There has been plenty written about interviewing developers ­ and the pitfalls of when traditional interviewing techniques are used on coders.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 24, 2025

From innovative fundraising approaches to data-driven donor engagement, the conversations happening at this years top nonprofit events will shape the future of our sector. Collaborative workshops cover everything from membership strategies and innovative communication techniques to adapting for-profit technology in the nonprofit space.

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