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. 1. I read the manuscript over the summer so I could blurb this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. I admit that I mostly read non-fiction, but if I only read social media or geeky books that would be too narrow. There are countless books that tell you how to avoid mistakes. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I am excited to announce that I am working on my next book, tentatively titled “The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.” I’m honored to be co-authoring this book with Aliza Sherman to be published in 2017 by Wiley. Aliza is also a prolific writer and author, having published ten books.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So, you can imagine how delighted I was to read George’s and Zach Clayton’s new book, True North, Emerging Leader Edition. 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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2013

I do know a great research technique that you can do yourself to get some insight: User Interviews. Steve Portigal recently released an awesome book called Interviewing Users – How to Uncover Compelling Insights that will help guide this process for you. Allow time for debriefing after each interview.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2013

Read Greg Blencoe new book, The Supermanager. It''s a valuable, quick, easy-to-read book for a new manager or leader, and a solid read for existing leaders and managers who just need a reminder of Blencoe''s Supermanager''s Seven Principles. Blencoe was kind enough to share with me insights into his book.

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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. Able to sense danger before it''s too late? and don''t quit!

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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. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. Pomodoro : The pomodoro technique is a time management methodology created by Francesco Cirillo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2016

Aliza Sherman and I have been very busy these last few months working on our new book “The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.” ” We’ve been researching, interviewing, and writing, plus testing out a lot of our ideas. Register for Free! .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Visual Meeting Workshop by David Sibbet and Rachel Smith - Based on Sibbet's book Visual Meetings. One of the techniques that they used that I loved was to provide a graphic template for your personal learning journey to internalize these skills. Here’s an interview with Rachel about the techniques and a blog post the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

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. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book?

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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

MAY 24, 2013

Peter greeted me at the airport and as I got into the car I noticed a copy of Rheingold’s book NetSmart in the back seat. ” The article profiles the work of Alex Pang , a Stanford University technologist and author of the forthcoming book, “ Distraction Addiction.” Or a combination? Mindfulness'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

The author of the book, Giving 2.0 , has just released all her teaching notes and syllabi, along with philanthropy library. I first heard Laura speak when she launched her book , Giving 2.0, After the book launch, I asked her if she would consider writing the foreword to our book and she said yes!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed? farm operators are women?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Check out some of projects that NTC volunteers will participating in: Digital Scrap Booking with San Francisco Seniors (April 2, 2012) : Digital archiving is an awesome way to make sure memories keep going. Mock Interviews: Help A+ Certified Tech Perfect their Interviewing Techniques!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods. It is a simple technique: 1) notice the habit; 2) Ask yourself what you are getting out of it in the moment. Habit change research was one of our favorite rabbit holes to explore. Wendy Harman, Daily Questions.

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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. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. Beyond the First Click is a project of Capulet, Change.org and the Mobilisation Lab at Greenpeace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

I stopped in London on my way back to the US from Kenya for a couple of book events. I shared an overview of the central thesis in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , and we took a deeper dive into social culture , learning from mistakes , simplicity, and transparency. Book Giveaways. Jaz Cummins with her copy of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2016

Yesterday, Aliza Sherman and I shared some insights from our forthcoming book “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit ,” a work in progress. During the one-hour free webinar hosted by Wild Apricot , we share some ideas, got feedback, and identified additional people and organizations to interview for the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2010

I remember when she started blogging and she was one of my first “ blogger interviews.&# Joitske is an expert in change management and technology adoption and is a trainer who was taught web 2.0 techniques all over the world. Can’t wait to hear what she thinks about the ideas in the book!

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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. Here are some techniques you can incorporate into your training and staff meetings that will help with learning and retention. Photo: Americans for the Arts. Movement is better than sitting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

For this screencast, I conducted several interviews lasting approximately 50 minutes. about his editing process for a screencast that uses this interview technique. He also notes that he doesn't log with markers, but edits as he is listening to the interview. I recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Patton who is often referred to as the “Grandfather of Developmental Evaluation” and any starting point for understanding the methods begins with his book, “ Developmental Evaluation.” ” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Yesterday, I honored to fill in as MC and interviewer for Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the Nonprofit Fundraising Masters event. (Darian was welcoming his first child, a boy, into the world!). Lynne Twist said something that we heard before while researching for the book, “Burnout is b t!”

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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. Realizing the book is as relevant today as it was five years ago, here is my post from 2014: Want to be a leader who is tough? Cool under fire? Able to sense danger before it's too late?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2017

They also interviewed a former Google product manager turned interface design ethicist, Tristan Harris , about how tech companies are intentionally creating a large scale epidemic of people getting hooked to their smartphones. Five years ago, Howard Rheingold wrote a book called Netsmart, that presaged the attention economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention. Parr spent over two years researching and interviewing people for this book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. Paul's Sell with a Story book includes : Model stories Skill-building exercises Enlightening examples from Microsoft, Costco, Xerox, Abercombie & Fitch, Hewlett Packard, and other top companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. In the book, we talk about the using low tech tools like crayons or post-it notes to map out your network. Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. I think there are many timeless lessons that still apply to current strategy that can be gleaned from looking backward.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

This is where Jason Lewis steps in to provide valuable insight during his interview in episode 89 of The sgENGAGE Podcast, Developing Fundraising Talent. Arms-length fundraising is term coined by Jason in his book. The repeated technique creates a distinctly transactional relationship of diminishing personal value.

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