Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

In almost every case these men and women took prudent risks, were oblivious to criticism, and exercised a laser-like focus on their objectives. He immediately grasped the implication of combining the relatively new art form of lithography with political satire. And they had a plan, and they worked the plan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2015

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. The book includes many exercises and examples, along with QR codes to access videos with additional content that can be viewed on your smartphone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

And it links you to a website where you alone or in a group can supplement your reading with some interactive exercises and resources. Either the state-of-the-art changes too quickly for a book or an MBA program to keep up with. In addition, the book provides an excellent glossary of most used terms within business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

The number of feeds in your reader can grow like weeds and new sources come along that are worth following.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Artistic & Culinary Experiences Both art and food have a way of transcending differences, removing barriers, and rallying diverse groups around a common cause. An art festival where local artists can show off their pieces, explain their work to attendees, and donate a portion or all of the proceeds to your nonprofit. A road race.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

One of the classes was focused on “ Small Professional Online Networking ” and includes an exercise where participants analyze, de-layer, and build the “core” of their professional network.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They will also have people up and moving around doing thoughtful, interactive exercises, usually in small groups to facilitate discussion and collaboration. They incorporate engaging team-building exercises and icebreakers to break up the day with some laughs and to build relationships. They make the day fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes. A meeting hook does the same thing. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. This helped us do a better job of sense-making.

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VQ Strategies

DECEMBER 30, 2020

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1].

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

Priya Parker's wonderful book The Art of Gathering shares the core principles of how to drive. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. The Art of Gathering expanded my understanding of what it means to build a powerful culture of participation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In almost every case these men and women took prudent risks, were oblivious to criticism, and exercised a laser-like focus on their objectives. He immediately grasped the implication of combining the relatively new art form of lithography with political satire. And they had a plan, and they worked the plan.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

We are posting short museum-based exercise videos each week. While it's a silly project, #museumfitness is also a small attempt to break down unproductive divisions between "art people" and "sports people." To celebrate the confluence between these passions, some buddies and I have started an instagram account called @museumfitness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The workshop had seating in a U-shape, so people did not have a desk to write on and I had some worksheet exercises for people to do. It would have been useful for me to pack a few clipboards to make it easier for people who use wheelchairs to complete the written exercises. Just added these to my trainer kit).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. In some exercises, such as the closing circle, the notes might be taken by hand so they ideas are captured. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 18, 2023

Offer fundraising training to development staff, senior administrators, and board members to help demystify the art and science of resource development. Having supervisors serve as traffic cops will diminish both the fundraiser’s sense of self-esteem and capacity to work entrepreneurially to maximize results.

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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). I have used online polling mostly on Webinars to learn more about audience characteristics at the beginning of the session and as reflection exercises in between sections of content.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

(NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. Working with the Knight Foundation, Mural Arts, Committee of Seventy and other key nonprofit partners, HMC created a completely new way to look at, and impact, voter turnout and experience here in Philadelphia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. The body break I used in the Arts Leaders training in the photograph above is called “Follow the Leader.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. The book includes many exercises and examples, along with QR codes to access videos with additional content that can be viewed on your smartphone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It has been a pleasure to co-design this session with knowledgeable and smart colleagues who are as obsessed with instructional design and interactive exercises as I am. The Art of Good Closers. Incorporating Movement Into Exercises. Interactive Exercises. Full Group Interactive Exercises. Learning Styles.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Donor-Centered Leadership (Amazon link) Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money: A Cookbook of Easy-to-Use Fundraising Exercises by Andrea Kihlstedt and Andy Robinson Whining about our boards. How to Write Fundraising Materials That Raise More Money: The Art, the Science, the Secrets by Tom Ahern Writing persuasively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

Feng Shui is an ancient art and science developed many years ago in China. While the room was set up as theatre or “military” style, there was enough room for people to do small group interactive exercises without feeling chained to their seats with attention totally on the instructor.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Payne’s colleague at Longwood University, Director of Donor Impact Drew Hudson, said no algorithm can beat the old-time art of chitchatting. Data mining exercises can inaccurately assess capacity and no AI drill is going be able to identify a donor’s affinity accurately,” he said.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As an initial brainstorming exercise, consider what your guests’ interests are. Paintings and art. The first step to curating the best silent auction items for your event is to create an initial list of things you know your bidders will love. Are they wine enthusiasts? Do they spend a lot of time in the great outdoors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Purpose Check: The last part of the exercise should circle back to the objective and discussion that asks does the strategy we created help us reach our strategic goal or not? Right now the cards have questions and this group was asking for experiential advice on the cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Arts and Social Media. Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. Benchmarking, whether an informal or extensive research study, can be an incredibly valuable exercise because the numerical analysis can help you craft realistic measurable objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Yesterday, I presented a workshop called " A Crash Course in Social Media for Arts People " hosted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. Crash Course: Social Media for Arts People View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: arts ).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 14, 2016

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. The book includes many exercises and examples, along with QR codes to access videos with additional content that can be viewed on your Smartphone.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

Some of my favorite teaching moments this year were when we were getting to know our participants in icebreakers and grounding exercises and after we created space for them to network and interact with peers around the country.” Krista Berry Ortega Programs Manager, West. “I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2017

While I love using magic markers and sticky notes or tossing a ball in icebreakers and exercises, don’t only use activities that require having materials or equipment on hand. Here’s an excellent resource with tons of great icebreakers and exercises that can be adapted for staff training. (3) You can always adapt or improvise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2013

Having a productive convening when bringing people who may not know each other together for the first time, but have a common interest is to provide time for participants to get know each other. The “ice breaker” exercise was for us to draw a map of a network we’re currently working with it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Come work in the fields, grow organic vegetables, do leadership exercises, and eat healthy food. Read more online and buy your own copy today. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Art and Beauty The highlight of Madrid for me was going to The Prado. It doesn't get more beautiful than that! ** Good food, exercise, sunshine, relaxation, time with loved ones, art and beauty. Time I don't remember the last time I had a two-week vacation, but wow is it different than a weekend away. Highly recommend.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

Let’s face it; every day we use our smartphones and mobile technology to get through daily and simple tasks, from finding information, to exercise, to learning new languages, even finding the nearest grocery store. While growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio he learned to his passion was within the arts and photography.

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