Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. Content curation is the organizing, filtering and making sense of information on the web and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. 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. If you have not read it, please do.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Importance of Training ROI Understanding the ROI of your training programs helps you make informed decisions about where to allocate resources. The more engaging the training, the more likely employees are to retain the information. This flexibility can lead to higher completion rates and better retention of information.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Importance of Training ROI Understanding the ROI of your training programs helps you make informed decisions about where to allocate resources. The more engaging the training, the more likely employees are to retain the information. This flexibility can lead to higher completion rates and better retention of information.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. 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. If you have not read it, please do.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. The entire focus of our social message is to know your audience,” Elaina told us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 1 The report was based on 310 survey responses and 30 in-depth interviews with people identified as next gen donors. Will the next generation really create new institutions and models? Teaching philanthropy to children: why, how, what. Welcome to Research Friday!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. More sophisticated methods of evaluation include random controlled trials (RCTs) or the use of a logic model. 7 With the large number of nonprofits that offer similar services, individual donors are striving to make more informed decisions before investing their charitable dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. We can only hope that we later have the time, information, and bandwidth to make new, better decisions. Information technologies and social media are here to stay.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. 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. If you have not read it, please do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

The webinar content is important, but it is only part of the instructional design task. Once you’ve identified what people will learn from the webinar, think about your content in these three different categories: Self-Directed Reading: Materials and Information that participants can read and review on their own.

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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. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. That’s the theory at least. Begin Connections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information. 2. The example above, from Shulamuth School for Girls in Brooklyn , received over 70 comments with the conversation being about “where is so and so now” and others providing information their classmates.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2016

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Paul's new book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies. It didn’t take long). Storytelling is a powerful tool.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2007

This summer I've been interviewing the innovators behind the 21 Projects that went to the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) this year (I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared). I was particularly touched by my interview with Deron Beal, the Executive Director and founder of the Freecycle Network , so I thought I'd share it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Iftikhar Soomro and Seema Zameer — all of whom understand capacity building programs.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Common tasks of the community manager include: Guiding and informing all content planning, goal setting, and feature development. Modeling appropriate site use and enforcing the “Terms of Use” as appropriate. Model Wanted Behavior. Modeling wanted behavior is one way to help users learn how to behave on your site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

Today's transcript is from my interview with the founders of Back to Earth , an organic catering and outdoor adventure company. One of the things I've enjoyed the most about interviewing people for this podcast is seeing the similarities and connections that arise between people. I hope that you enjoy their interview.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

She encouraged focusing on what facilitates the building of strong organizations that can house successful programs, and "raising up patterns" of what is working operationally for organizations, and disseminating that information. Barriers to entry: The government prescribes a lot of requirements (i.e.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Use the list to augment or inform your own strategy. They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. People like to consume information that validates good feelings about themselves.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 25, 2022

Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact. Tech nonprofit” is an emerging term that refers to a tech startup that is building software or web applications using a nonprofit model for social impact.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As someone interviewing for a top job, how can you detect warning signs of organizational system decay *before* your professional credibility is on the line? If nobody’s even tracking that information, be prepared to be in “start-up” mode, with all the long hours and frequent diving-catch plays this mode entails.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2006

They were brought together by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future program to talk about how to make Oakland a model city that uses the growing green economy to lift its low-income residents out of poverty. are going to make Oakland the new Silicon Valley for green capital."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Her articles are informative, well written, and provide good context. As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !)

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

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

What I see the most often in this section is that grant writers include a flowery narrative with a lot of information about problems. So instead of just talking about the wide needs as if it’s a fact, include: testimonials, statistics, reports, articles, interviews, etc. Without this, your entire project will fall short.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Below is an edited transcript of my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jose in late August. What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We interview the teams.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

So, Tracy teaches you how to make your employees happy by: Organizing their work from the first step in the hiring process through the final step in their departure from your company so they are happy with you, their work, their coworkers, as well as in their interactions with your customers, suppliers and vendors.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

60) Search « 5 Quick Steps to Better SEO | Main | Tech & Style Tips for Conducting Blog Interviews » Tuesday Mar 10 2009 Top 10 SXSW Interactive Panels Your Nonprofit Should Attend Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 05:27PM | by Allyson Kapin Are you planning to check out SXSW Interactive this year?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.”

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But the closer you can get to that model, the better. You’re going to give them some information about why you care about this cause and why you want them to donate to it. Noble Paws teaches people with disabilities to run their own dog team, which was a very unique idea in Alaska. That’s really the key – personal relationships.

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