Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2020

But stumbling and even falling is the best way to learn from mistakes and is critical to achieving goals,” says Bill Wooditch , author of the book, Fail More: Embrace, Learn, And, Adapt to Failure As A Way To Success. “We The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In The book, published by Wiley, will launch in March, 2022.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

But stumbling and even falling is the best way to learn from mistakes and is critical to achieving goals,” says Bill Wooditch , author of the book, Fail More: Embrace, Learn, And, Adapt to Failure As A Way To Success. “We The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). 4) Read more books. One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. Reading books does that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In The book, published by Wiley, will launch in March, 2022.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

In my book , co-written with Aliza Sherman , we walk through plenty of warning signs, along with self-care activities to alleviate your stress. If you’re having trouble focusing, you may be suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting at work. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2020

But stumbling and even falling is the best way to learn from mistakes and is critical to achieving goals,” says Bill Wooditch, author of the book, Fail More:Embrace, Learn, And, Adapt to Failure As A Way To Success. “We The book will teach you how to: Conquer the negative emotions that naturally arise after making mistakes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prior to DH, Lim helped create the world’s first series of Culture Books at Zappos.com, where she consulted for eight years. And, it allows time for play/flow/creativity to surface (our brains need time to unplug)! Lim: It allows for more control/autonomy (freedom to create people’s best life).

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sgEngage

JANUARY 18, 2024

The following is an excerpt from How to Thrive When Work Doesn’t Love You Back A Practical Guide for Taking Care of Yourself While Changing The World by Meico Marquette Whitlock and a foreword by Beth Kanter 3 Ways to Thrive When Your Work Doesn’t Love You Back You’re committed to making a positive difference in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

The book is about our behavioral addictions to our smartphones, video games, social media, and email and how to break them. Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. The diagram below illustrates a Ludic Loop in checking your email.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

When Kevin was in kindergarten he had an organic brain injury, which forced him to have to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. Braille books saved her from isolation and she became an insatiable reader. Meet Kevin and “Sophia” (who anonymously shared her story with my team).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Anne Grady, in a recent HBR blog post , describes the harm that repeated stress triggers can create in the workplace: “When you are triggered, the emotional part of your brain takes over. Your logical brain temporarily shuts down, and you lose the ability to solve problems, make decisions, and think rationally.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

I know you understand, and practice, this philosophy. You, because you’re human, are driven to want to light up the pleasure center of your brain with “feel good” shots of dopamine. — Feeling like too much of a Prima Donna, but… Dear Feeling like too much of a Prima Donna, Don’t beat yourself up about feeling how you feel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

If you can buy a book, you can’t borrow it. Marrakesh is intended to end the book famine for people who can’t read regular books because of their disability. Libraries for people who are blind or dyslexic are the primary source of accessible books in audio, large print or braille.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

While geared for journalists and newsrooms, there is a lot here that is useful for nonprofits – and many of the same topics we address in our book. When you switch like that, you use brain cells and that is why we find our selves mentally exhausted before the end of the day. Single tasking – Do one thing at a time.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change. But it is a good task to schedule after blocking off time to work on a complex grant or other task that requires a lot of brain power. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Then share the Google Doc with the Board member.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. I use pen and a note book to take notes! I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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APRIL 9, 2010

The writing process for the book: Expository vs storytelling. Different brains – visual vs words. Three Themes from the Book: 1. As she started putting into practice some great listening practices, she realized that listening was the gateway drug for social media. —— [link]. learning loops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

We wrote about this in depth in the book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. But leave your mobile phone behind and if you are tempted to take it with you re-read Tip 1 and book a session with Mindful Techie who works with nonprofit professionals. Here are a few tips for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. As someone who loves using data for decision-making, I found the health data generated by my Fitbit was highly actionable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. I’ve also done this during a session as part of a small group exercise.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You might want to write three urgent subject lines, three intrigue subject lines, two that combine intrigue and urgency, and two that don’t fall into either category but still pop into your brain. Creating a sense of urgency helps your donor’s brain prioritize your email as something that needs to be opened. Lots of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I did this in real-time as part of my presentation by highlight a e-book from Curata called “Feeding the Content Beast” with a foreword by Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the co-author of “Content Rules.” Content curation takes focus and discipline — being “brains on.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The brain needs a break from the barrage and needs to reset itself to normal operating mode. Overworked new media managers often find it challenging to connect face to face, or they cannot quiet their mind long enough to read a book on the beach or watch a sunset. The will to engage and interact is drained, and procrastination sets in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices. My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need. Here are some of the tools that can help make better habits or break bad ones.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

"It is a driving passion of mine to get people to understand that improv skills can be effectively translated into the business world with powerful results," says Bob Kulhan , veteran improv performer, university professor, and author of the fascinating new book, Getting To "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv. and "Yes, but." "Yes,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2013

She recently authored an excellent e-book on how to use Evernote ). I have noticed that analog and digital methods of note taking or knowledge capture seem to make me think in different ways. I suspect that depending on whether your type or write – it some how gets encoded into your brain differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. I planned for this by incorporating an after-lunch energizer that used movement to get people’s brains going. Or speed-geek, which is similar to speed dating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I’ve been a fan of Dan Roam’s work since his book “ The Back of the Napkin ” in 2008. He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.” From SXSW Session: Shut Up and Draw.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. Do your practices and programs support women?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Practice, patience and time are your friends if you want to improve your writing. Vanessa of today knows that this is merely what my brain wants to do and if I don’t feed into, it will pass, and I can get to work. And some additional articles you may enjoy: 3 Books on Writing Every Fundraiser Should Read.

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