Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. It didn’t take long).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. These stories reflect more than 222 interviews with leaders–172 leaders interviewed for the original True North book, and more recently 55 interviews for the new book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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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. Round Robin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. The goals for the Giving 2.0 3) Giving 2.0:

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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 22, 2007

It's here On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Beth Kanter describes the strategies she uses to teach digital immigrants in non-profit organizations how to use Web 2.0 Tools and techniques are abundant, but there's truly an embarrassment of riches. strategies to communicate and collaborate more effectively.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. If you have not read it, please do.

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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. Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. If you have not read it, please do.

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Story Storytelling Chapter Teach 52

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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Seeing this book (circled in the above picture) in the bookstore this week reminded me of my blog post about the book and the author from 2014. Along the way, Divine teaches you how to reaffirm your ultimate purpose, define your most important goals, and take concrete steps to make them happen. Cool under fire? Any idea why?

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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. For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. More about the book here. The book is available on Amazon. You can pick up a copy here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

This year, since content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching , I’ll be doing a conversational presentation on the topic. In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview.

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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. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Any idea why? Mark : It depends.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. If you have not read it, please do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Recent research and teaching practice shows that the lecture is a less effective teaching tool. There are different formats that you can use to make it more interactive: panel discussion, or interview experts. You should have a mix of approaches in your webinar. Incorporate Different Delivery Options. Large: Over 50 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Some participants acknowledged that they "Twitter resisters."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Interview with Jonathon Colman. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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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. organizational change, and technology.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Any idea why? Mark : It depends.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. It didn’t take long).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. Games are even more engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Here's what I'm going to do: A train the trainers workshop with the Cambodian blogging team to share resource information, answer questions, and exchange ideas for teaching young people how to use social media in a developing country like Cambodia. A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

Drawing on extensive research, including a comprehensive, original workplace survey and in-depth interviews with Millennial managers, Millennials Who Manage , offers teaches Millennial readers how to overcome workplace perceptions and become great leaders. They are more open minded and willing to change.”

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

So Mark agreed to answer a few questions for this blog. [Me] Some of the key changes we see are that there are new tools and techniques that allow people with common interests to find each other and form virtual communities around these common interests. How do NetSquared and the NetSquared website differ from TechSoup?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2006

Marshall Kirkpatrick interviewed me as part of his gig at Netsquared. He also interviewed the East Coast Michael Stein , who I see also plays an instrument (violin). " I decided to try it one more time and the third time he greeted me, "I guess you won't go away until I teach you. Great work Marshall!

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

During the event we took full advantage of the Summit's virtual presence to post session notes, encourage ongoing collaboration and discussion with discussion boards, blog entries, and live chat, and to feature conference media such as podcasts, video montages, and photos. You'll end up with more solid engagement and higher quality content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

Nedra Weinreich, Spare Change Blog Nedra Weinreich was one of the first nonprofit tagged blogs that I discovered while browsing the blogher blogroll a few months back. " She writes the Spare Change Blog which I think is one of the best out there that focuses on social marketing. Why did you start blogging?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

What are the techniques for conversational weaving? While she was busy facilitating a linux session, Michele Murrain had managed to blog a very thoughtful post shining a light on the Open Content issues (pay for it or set it free). Click to Play - Adam Thompson Interview. What is the best tool for very large communities?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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