Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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JULY 12, 2023

Empower your volunteers by offering the chance for members to teach in your learning program or speak at your annual conference. Mentor/Mentee program. Offer additional professional development options so volunteers can upskill. Speaking opportunities.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

These include Junior Achievement, Georgetown University, BizWorld, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Startup Weekend, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and many more. The Young Entrepreneur Council may be familiar to you if you’re a regular TNW reader. Image credit: Pond 5.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. And I think where Millennials make the greatest impact is when they realize their capabilities to teach and that there’s an audience that wants to teach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Classroom Teaching Redefined: A Revolution in Today’s World Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems The traditional classroom setup has been around for centuries and hasn’t changed much since the dawn of time. With the demands of the 21st-century workforce, classroom teaching is going through a revolution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Classroom Teaching Redefined: A Revolution in Today’s World GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The traditional classroom setup has been around for centuries and hasn’t changed much since the dawn of time. With the demands of the 21st-century workforce, classroom teaching is going through a revolution.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Classroom Teaching Redefined: A Revolution in Today’s World GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - The traditional classroom setup has been around for centuries and hasn’t changed much since the dawn of time. With the demands of the 21st-century workforce, classroom teaching is going through a revolution.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Nimble AMS

MAY 13, 2022

TECH TIP: Teach in-demand skills and provide industry-specific certifications through Salesforce’s Trailhead , accessible with Nimble AMS. Springtide Research Institute discovered only 38% of Gen Z respondents have mentors, though 82% believe mentorship opportunities are vital to their professional and personal success. Volunteering.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team’s hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. After two and a half years of mentoring on nights and weekends, Novati decided to turn her passion into a career. She and her husband, Michael, founded Formation with a couple of goals in mind.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Teach something new to your team 24. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Praise when compliments are earned 19. Be decisive 20. Say "thank you" and sincerely mean it 21. Send written thank you notes 22.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So, I thank my dad for teaching me the following business and life lessons : Listen - Growing up, I thought my Dad was perhaps shy or quiet. He loved even more to teach. Mentoring is equally powerful. Thank you, Dad, for teaching me these valuable lessons by setting such a good example. He loved to learn. I miss you.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

So you want to teach yourself SEO? Here are the steps of teaching yourself SEO in 6 steps: STEP 1 – Find a resource for beginners. STEP 3- Find a Mentor. Finding a mentor might take a bit of time, but it will be one of the most crucial steps. Be creative about it, but make sure to find a mentor.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 13, 2011

David Burkus often provides valuable comments to my various Blog postings, and he's a person who effectively uses a board of advisers, instead of mentors, to help him achieve success. Here is one of my Blog's most popular posts from last year.now with updated information. David has written his own new book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 27, 2013

Teach something new to your team 24. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Praise when compliments are earned 19. Be decisive 20. Say "thank you" and sincerely mean it 21. Send written thank you notes 22.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The authors, Richard Boyatzis , Melvin Smith and Ellen Van Oosten , teach that the most effective way to help people learn and change is to connect to a positive vision of themselves, or to an inspiring dream they’ve long held. And, this type of coaching is different from mentoring, which can sometimes last over decades.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Of course they need to be able to teach coding, but what’s far more important is their ability to empathize and relate with the student.” Strive’s employees, including its founders, still need to teach at least one student.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. In Cambodia, we are also teaching Canva, but I was all out of t-shirts. I am serving as the Master Trainer and facilitator for the event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Teach something new to your team 24. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Praise when compliments are earned 19. Be decisive 20. Say "thank you" and sincerely mean it 21. Send written thank you notes 22.

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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. Those experiences not only informed my teaching, but it became a personal passion to bring foundational data skills to all.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Tableau

JANUARY 18, 2023

Britt Staniar Senior Community Program Manager, Recognition Programs Catherine Gosparini Senior Community Program Manager, Developer Program Sarah Molina January 18, 2023 - 8:24pm January 19, 2023 Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community.

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sgEngage

JUNE 17, 2024

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. Do adjunct professors at your institution have the flexibility to teach remotely on days when their personal life would dictate it?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 17, 2011

After six years of blogging, and teaching others how to blog, I've been playing around with the idea of what it means to be a "generous blogger." Mentors new bloggers. You don’t get to say no, no matter how much you may want to.” – Eli Stone Friday is Have Fun, Do Good's 6th anniversary, and my 42nd birthday. The generous blogger.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

For Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBSA), personalization for each young person (a “Little”) and their adult mentor (a “Big”) is critical to its mission. The pandemic forced BBBSA to quickly transform deep, in-person connections into virtual relationships. About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

I shared my story and my experience in doing some online blog mentoring project with young women in Nigeria through my colleague Ore Somolu. I focused on showing them Twitter because there were so many examples of women leaders here in Rwanda and other countries in Africa using it for networking and professional development.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

I helped coach them along the way, as a good startup mentor will do. We need to teach kids to not fear risks, and we shouldn’t reprimand students for failure. But, it was largely their ideas that got summarized above. So, my pitch to our school administrators: Stop “babying and spoon-feeding” our kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2012

Millennials education teaches them to be the king of the castle, not the grunts to get the coffee. Babyboomers need to mentor these young people and treat them like equals, not grunts. Leadership comes from trusting people. Should that Millennial fail, teach them a learning lesson. When Millennials graduate, it hits them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Thing is, if I'm honest with myself, I know that the most sustainable way for me to make the world a better place is by using skills I love, like writing and teaching, which can be quiet work. Be a mentor, or teacher to other writers. Anyone else feel that way? Write a story for your community newspaper, or blog. Write an op-ed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The founder estimates that only 8% of teachers are accepted to teach on Coderhouse’s platform, resulting in nearly 2,000 active teachers with the company today. Right now, there are more than 400 instructors/mentors that teach over 700 courses across 100,000 techniques and competencies needed for jobs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

Alex Flores , Teach For America. With the new name “New Pathways For Youth” the organization wanted to rebrand itself as a movement that gives Phoenix area youth a new opportunities by providing them with positive adult mentors. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2011

Teach something new to your team 24. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Support mentoring - both informal and formal mentoring 62. Praise when compliments are earned 19. Be decisive 20. Say "thank you" and sincerely mean it 21. Send written thank you notes 22.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Teach your staff to fish: People aren’t born knowing how to build a major donor pipeline and expertly move folks through this pipeline. Unless your staff member has done this effectively before, and was mentored by someone who knew what they were doing, they’re going to naturally be resistant. Provide training and/or coaching.

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