Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel?

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Analytics can be as much of a black box as engineering, which is why hiring managers need to look past the skill list on CVs to find more effective ways to sort candidates, writes Chuck Soha, managing director at StoneTurn. Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview? How can I ace the visa interview? Team slide.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Candid

JUNE 5, 2024

Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. Use digital storytelling techniques. Candid uses TikTok and YouTube , delivering short videos on key concepts and skills.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

They thought engineers should be judged by their ability to code and do the job on a daily basis, so they started a company to create a different kind of engineering job interview. The two founders met at an internal hackathon at Google, bonded over their shared experience around technical interviews, and decided to do something about it.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques! April 3, 2012) : A huge part of landing your new job is winning the interview. We need your help to get The Stride Center students interview ready!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2012

I’ll cover the basics of content curation – what it is, why is it important for nonprofits, and how to use curation as part of your content strategy. I’ll also be talking about how good curation skills can build staff expertise and avoid the pain of information overload and including some simple frameworks to get started.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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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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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? What was your approach? Did it work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2013

Here’s a recent interview with her in the Atlantic (by way of Rheingold). Do you us mindfulness techniques like meditation, taking walks, or other ‘low tech” methods to help you focus or do you rely on “calming” technology tools? ” Distraction by shiny objects is not new.

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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. The other skill building session was a session on working SMARTer on social channels – What are the time saving techniques?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. He also notes that he doesn't log with markers, but edits as he is listening to the interview. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one? . By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success. Interview questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. Moreover, adding context is another curation skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Yesterday, I was able to interview Greg to learn more about his massive social experiment called EssentialLive to get many people to try Essentialism for a year. It isn’t just about setting New Year’s resolutions or adding a new productivity technique to try. ” says Greg.

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Forum One

MAY 23, 2024

I want to share a few of my favorite techniques for making sure that you’re identifying and adapting to the evolving needs of your audience while designing. Passing the design ball” on projects similarly builds skills amongst team members. But how do you build trust like a team? They can even be done virtually!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal , Laura shared why she is releasing the curriculum and the basic frameworks. To provide any giver—donating any amount of time, money, experience, skills or networks—with free access to research, learning and experience I’ve developed over the last two decades as a strategic philanthropist.

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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. Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:01 PM Labels: Leadership Books , Leadership Skills , Management , Motivating Employees 1 comments: davidburkus said.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

AIs Emergence and Homogenization In that talk, Liang coined two terms to describe foundation models: Emergence refers to AI features still being discovered, such as the many nascent skills in foundation models. But like transformers, the new technique soon caught fire. See chart below.) The field continues to move fast. million users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. Then you interview people on different sides of the scale.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

In one of the latest developments, Domestika — a popular site that creates and sells online video tutorials and courses covering a range of visual arts and related skills, building a larger community around that content where members can also interact and learn from each other — has raised $110 million in funding on a $1.3

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The thesis of the book is that as technology becomes more pervasive in our work and personal lives, interpersonal skills become more essential. The book also outlines principles and techniques for impact measurement. It includes checklists, interviews, case studies, and lots of illustrations and infographics.

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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. They affect employees, managers, business owners, and customers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. You can download the complete report here. Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

CEO Nathan Kundtz explained in a recent interview with TechCrunch. Generally, this is accomplished using generative adversarial networks (GANs), an AI technique that uses competing neural networks to simulate and refine synthetic data. That means these competitors are taking an existing data set and engineering more of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Wendy Harman was the inspiration for workshop curriculum on social media listening skills.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

One PwC report found that teaching employees additional skills can save a company between 43% and 66% of layoff costs alone, depending on the salary. billion into an assortment of startups focused on “skilling” employees between February 2021 and February 2021, according to Crunchbase data. ” Image Credits: Obrizum.

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