EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Nonprofits with well-designed, highly functional websites will have a definite advantage when it comes to reaching, engaging, and retaining more donors in years to come. Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. These stories reflect more than 222 interviews with leaders–172 leaders interviewed for the original True North book, and more recently 55 interviews for the new book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Blencoe : I wrote the book because I felt there was a need for a book about management techniques that was short and interesting to read but also had depth. I think the management techniques that are discussed in the book are extremely important for several reasons. Blencoe : I definitely love to write.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. The book is a quick and handy resource for any leader, manager or Human Resource professional.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Refine a model or make definitive judgment. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews. Have a clear, linear chain of cause effect. Based on a logic model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Facilitation Technique San Francisco Storyboard 109

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. And I think that’s definitely true. I think most people who want to learn to be better storytellers want to do so in a respectable way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. And I think that’s definitely true. I think most people who want to learn to be better storytellers want to do so in a respectable way.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. You will save yourself a headache you definitely don’t need by simply slowing down and making sure you bring the right people into your organization. Have several interviews before you offer the job. . Here are some recruiting tips: .

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Nonprofit Advice Studies Skills 90

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

That alone, I don’t know how you do that and then all your other awesome, you know, fundraising and client work, but it definitely has helped out a lot of organizations raise over $1 billion, and is just a delight to listen to. That was the most recent one. . – [Steven] That was really cool. Perhaps you’re offering empathy.

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People Community Video Podcast 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

You definitely want to be “Live Tweeting” during the event and encouraging participants to do the same. It is also a good technique to easily capture the digital artifacts from the event to prepare the after story. Here’s some tips and best practices for live tweeting. Shonali Burke has a terrific tip.

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Social Media Integration Tools Tips 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. The definition of links or how you’re connected is defined however you want in social network analysis. The above visual is a social network. Organizational reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

We used a broad definition of crowd sourcing, simply stated as: Getting ideas, content, volunteer tasks, money, or other things from a wide swath of people. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? What I do the same?

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Reflection Sample Script Map 98

Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Usability Tests : Types of usability tests you can conduct, participant recruiting, task definition and creating a prototype.

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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 Model 98

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. And I think that’s definitely true. I think most people who want to learn to be better storytellers want to do so in a respectable way.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 46

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it''s too late?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it's too late?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

That's me interviewing Jonny Goldstein after he interviewed me. I asked him about shooting techniques. It's part of my series of video blogging famous video bloggers on technique (so far have interviewed or captured them in action -- Nick Booth , Steve Garfield , and Robert Scoble ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change.

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Story Platform Build Organization 90

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. And I think that’s definitely true. I think most people who want to learn to be better storytellers want to do so in a respectable way.

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Storytelling Chapter Story Teach 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. And I think that’s definitely true. I think most people who want to learn to be better storytellers want to do so in a respectable way.

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Teach Story Storytelling Chapter 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it''s too late?

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New York Baltimore Teach Mind 64

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? A: Definitely. You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Learning how to listen using a couple of social media tools and the active task of listening is something that can be easily learned in a few hours and if an organization invests 1-5 hours per week in this task it will definitely return value to strategy development. What are some advanced techniques for listening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. This requires carefully thinking about comment moderation techniques and part of this includes articulating a clear policy about use of moderation. Great Darren Rowse Problogger Interview by Guy on Sun. Again, your blogging platform will have this feature.

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Comment Difference Spam Ning 50

CauseVox

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Fundraising techniques, such as peer-to-peer, crowdfunding, and special event fundraising (especially if you’re looking at how to move your events to virtual). Share compelling stories – Show, don’t tell your viewers by providing testimonials and interviews that illustrate journeys from trial to triumph.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits? What are the best resources, including blogs, books, and articles?

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Museum Campaign Flickr Arts 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert. My definition is that your knowledge lives in the clouds. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. .

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Social Network Analysis America Network 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. There are definitely some shades of gray. It isn't black and white.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Causes Build Demonstration Reflection 89

Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. What would the difference of these definitions be? . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Skills Leadership Build Kansas City 40

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. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While there are many differences in nonprofit versus for-profit design, there are a lot of UX techniques we can borrow from one another. Most of our user research techniques are likely the same as what’s in any designer’s toolkit: surveys, interviews, analytics review, usability tests, etc. Borrowing For-profit UX.

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Profit 37

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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