Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

I suggest using these as a brainstorming exercise with your team (executive management; development; board or whoever your key stakeholders are) to develop the raw material you’ll need to create a future-facing strategic plan that speaks to the times in which we’re living. Do this via survey, focus group, or one-to-one interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change.

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Network Build Strategy Learning 98

Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

Train like a champion, diet, exercise, or take performance-enhancing supplements? These types of tools are mostly built on top of GPT3 (General Pre-Trained Transformer) which is a machine learning platform that enables developers to train and deploy models that perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Studies confirm that creative activities – painting, drawing, dancing, playing music, theatre, or singing – can improve employee productivity and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 113

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Allan Gunn from Aspiration and his legendary facilitation skills and knowledge.

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Experiment Learning Create Exercise 119

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

Story 52

Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Interviews with 9 other foundations that conduct OE grantmaking (April-May 2012). Interviews with approximately 30 grantees (April-June 2012). This exercise has led us to the next step in our strategy review process- a draft that outlines key elements of our refreshed strategy.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Though it may have been nerve-wracking in the moment, I loved having to interview with so many organizations and having to think on my feet. Starting out, my main focus was recruiting community members to become change makers and role models in children’s lives—also known as Big Brothers and Big Sisters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

One of the techniques that they used that I loved was to provide a graphic template for your personal learning journey to internalize these skills. Here’s an interview with Rachel about the techniques and a blog post the tools. This is especially important if there are small group exercises.

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Facilitation Technique San Francisco Storyboard 109

NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Note: the speakers today are being introduced and interviewed by journalist and emcee Nadira Hira , on Twitter at @nadirahira. Leadership is a muscle that we all have, that we can all exercise. This model ensures that there is ''skin in the game on both sides'' and that the professionals'' time is being valued.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 48

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . I want the best for you, this is a little bit more interpersonal skills, of course. Well, what it means is that you’re communicating, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. There was a wonderful interview with Jane McGonigal and Kelly McGonigal about their work.

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Brain Mind Offline South Africa 105

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

Storytelling 40

Storytelling Chapter Story Teach 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Storytelling is a skill. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Teach Story Storytelling Chapter 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Exercise more. Be a good role model 46. 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? . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy's guidance.

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Chapter Interview Mentoring Exercise 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. The report out was a competition.

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Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

A mentor always exercises the power of suggestion. 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? That is, what are their self-interests versus what the company can offer them. They pose alternatives.

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Mentoring Tips Kansas City Kansas 56

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2011

In addition, each chapter in the book ends with a list of Action Exercises to help you implement Tracy's guidance.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2010

• Meditate, pray, relax, exercise, hike, laugh or whatever brings you peace. 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? . • Smile and talk to strangers that you meet.

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Advice Kansas City Mentoring Tulsa 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. 2) Networks are participatory.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So the program director, their resume. ” Yes. Is it measurable?

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Measure Report Process Impact 83

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I interviewed Steven on my podcast, Smart Communications Podcast, about his book. And one of the exercises you can use to figure that out is this kind of bullseye graphic, which is in the book but you can easily draw it on a piece of paper. And, Steven, please chat out the link to your book for everybody too. So, yeah, I totally agree.

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Build Video New York City Communication 124

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

And those were actually some of the best strategic planning surveys and interviews that I were able to do, was really being more entrenched in the community and having colleagues and friends that were of the Hmong and Lao background to really welcome me into those spaces to be able to do this work. You know, what skills do I have?

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. But, I had people who gave me skills. Little by little, I feel like I got this huge set of skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. *

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

I have hundreds of people who use these models that I’m showing you today to get better results. It’s a skill because when you have influence, you have everything. I love this model because, for me, it explains a lot why when you try to implement change it doesn’t exactly stick. I’m very skilled in this.

Product 71

Product Video Donor Structure 71

Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. But Reich’s new book also shines some bright spots, including his descriptions of techies who have used their skills to contribute to the common good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that? And then we're also giving a ton of art skills: dance and hip hop and banner painting and we record a CD every year in a ten-day period.

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