Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

“Too often, we don’t find out what’s truly on others’ hearts and minds because we don’t know how to ask the right questions in the right ways,” explains Jeff Wetzler , author of the new book, ASK. Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

” Also there is a very practical selling point to providing better tools to university classrooms: “People pay those tuitions to have access to professors and other students, and this is a way to provide that in a remote world,” he said.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 30, 2021

We’re here to talk about recurring donors, oh, yeah, best practices for unlocking the mystery that is recurring donors. But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments along the way. And, Steven, you’re going to be keeping an eye on questions and answers in chat. So don’t be shy.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Our approach: Transfer learning between node types within a heterogeneous graph Here, we shed light on a more practical source domain, other node types with abundant labels located on the same HG. To answer this question, we investigate how HGNNs compute node embeddings to learn the relationship between source and target distributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. If they do, they are typically “resistant” learners, often questioning the value of the technology. This is where content that breaks down the practice into small steps is very useful to participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who needs advice on best practices around acknowledging and recognizing major gifts. . — Seeking best practice. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach? I hope this helps!

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data Science Better Practices, Part 2 — Work Together You can’t just throw more data scientists at this model and expect the accuracy to magically increase. The common practice I witnessed in various places is that each member in the team tries their own “thing”. There’s a Hebrew saying “The pedant can’t teach”. A: Definitely.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Ask questions. How to find or create opportunities to practice. "We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

This week I was honored to teach a Happy Healthy Nonprofit Workshop at the 1440 Multiversity Nonprofit Service Week. This past week they opened up the campus to nonprofits and I was lucky enough to be part of the faculty to teach a workshop. They also teach yoga and meditation classes in this room. The photo was my classroom.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

The progression contains four units : Understanding Yourself Leading Yourself Understanding Others Leading Others Each chapter within the four units provides you: Hands-on Exercises Reflection Questions Post-Exercise Observations "By the time you finish the book, you'll have competed 22 exercises." I still practice them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes. Recently, Wooditch answered these questions for me about failing, succeeding and his book: Question : We are often taught from an early age that failure is the result of a lack of innate ability. We all fail.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

One question that I’ve been asking myself a lot lately is what is the cost of inaction? This video-based coding academy teaches coding skills in a fun, accessible, and engaging format on YouTube and other social media platforms (for free!). This highlights not just a tech industry issue but a broader societal challenge.

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Bloomerang

MAY 22, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who needs advice on how donor-advised funds should be recognized in their annual reports. . The general answer to your question is YES. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

That wasn’t on a practice test — it was his real grade. “He Now, for every short-answer question, Lazare writes two long sentences followed by a disjointed list of keywords — anything that seems relevant to the question. The questions are things like. He’d received a 50 out of 100. He was totally dejected.”.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on the effectiveness of major donor thank you parties. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach? Please submit your question here. Remember, there are no stupid questions!

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As People For the American Way Foundation wrestles with these same questions, we’ll share insights from some recent successes. For example, last year, we faced a campaign that sought to restrict what schools can teach—by appealing to mothers. We brought folks together for rallies and family-friendly community teach-ins.

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Tableau

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Future of Data & Analytics is a new series by Tableau CTO Andrew Beers, where he connects with industry leaders, researchers, and innovators to discuss the biggest questions shaping the future of data and analytics. The past year has been rife with significant challenges, and there are many questions about how to best move forward.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit leader who needs advice on who the best prospects are to ask for legacy gifts. What does this look like in practice? . Have a question for our Fundraising Coach? And this means you have to ask.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Contextual also worked with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to develop OLMoE, an AI system introduced in September that uses an approach called mixture of experts, in which a specialized subsection of the model is called on to answer a given question, leaving most of the other model parameters at rest.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

PEAK Grantmaking ’s vol unteer program success story PEAK Grantmaking is a community of 7,000 professionals working to advance e ffective and equitable grantmaking practices. Empower your volunteers by offering the chance for members to teach in your learning program or speak at your annual conference. Speaking opportunities.

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Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who needs advice on how to shine a light on their legacy giving program by publicizing bequests. . Thanks for your question, and I hope you find this response helpful. — Charity Clairity.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 26, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on how to honor, credit, and recognize their memorial gifts. . Dear Don’t Want Double Trouble, My first reaction to this question is “why not give double credit?” .

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

Teaching AI systems to understand what’s happening in videos as completely as a human can is one of the hardest challenges — and biggest potential breakthroughs — in the world of machine learning. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Facebook is vague about its future plans for AI models trained on users’ videos.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to encourage their Development Director to take meetings with major donors. . Thanks for this question, Charity Clairity. Have a question for our Fundraising Coach?

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This could be practice, memorization, motivation, or something else. An activity where learners must demonstrate understanding of the steps followed by feedback about their choices can help change a practice. Examples, questions, and scenarios that reflect what the learner will encounter. How do you define ‘accessible way’?”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Her specialty is blending communications theory, field research, and practical sales experience to help professionals and non-professionals become more polished and persuasive presenters. One of my favorite parts of the book is where Sjodin teaches how best to use visual aids in your presentations. Sjodin : Great Question!

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

Whether we like it or not, many traditional fundraising practices create an inner circle of supporters. That doesn’t mean that a high ROI is a bad thing, or that these fundraising practices should be retired. Therefore, we recommend taking the following steps to apply DEI best practices for your nonprofit: Lead From the Top.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Resilience: This relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Leadership Development.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 7, 2014

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Our question was this: Are your donors truly anonymous, or are you just not making the effort to collect data properly? The question challenged our client’s established way of doing things. It is time to manage that problem and reduce risk. What’s that proverb?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question come from a fundraiser and donor who wants advice on how to handle poor donor engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m a fundraiser, but also a donor. I know you understand, and practice, this philosophy. And virtuous.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Military Academy’s cadets, he has coached world-class athletes, a Super Bowl MVP, numerous Olympic medalists, professional ballerinas, NHL All-Stars, and college All-Americans – teaching them to overcome pressure and succeed on the world’s biggest stages. Releasing or restructuring your less successful experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

We also discussed use cases, benefits, limitations, adoptions, and lots of practical tips. Create small low risk experiments to answer the question: does this use case make sense for our organization? I was thrilled to have a conversation with Devi Thomas from Microsoft Philanthropies.

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on best practices around recording and recognizing in-kind donors. . What is the best practice in this type of situation? So familiarize yourself with best practices.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2019

I selected this book as best for its innovative format, timely and pertinent content, and how easy it is to put what Paul teaches to immediate use as a leader. However, plan to spend additional quality time crafting and practicing your versions of the 10 stories you’ll tell. Every great leader is a great storyteller. I’d been thorough.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2024

The 10 Disciplines teach you how they can lay a foundation that creates space in your busy life for you to consistently and optimally perform and achieve your inner peace. “I I have helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs achieve significant business success by using a disciplined and practical approach to operating their businesses.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 18, 2021

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., Today’s question comes from a fundraiser who wants advice on ways to stay in touch with potential donors who have major donor potential. . Try asking questions like: What caused you to become interested in this, and why is it important to you?

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