Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Nailing It includes the stories of: Maya Angelou Albert Einstein Steve Jobs Sally Ride Mary Shelley Jackie Robinson …and 19 more Robert L. In almost every case these men and women took prudent risks, were oblivious to criticism, and exercised a laser-like focus on their objectives. And they had a plan, and they worked the plan.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

If I knew how to do a better job, I would have drafted it that way to begin with! You are a person whose job is to carry passion and in-depth knowledge about your particular cause or organization. Your job is to make that process easy and effective. How can I give myself useful writing feedback? Remember: you are not normal.

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Media Cause

APRIL 16, 2021

What to do about agitators, arguers and the misinformed on your email list and social media—and how to manage negative comments. You have a job to do! . Developing a list of common responses is not only a great preparedness exercise in the long-term, but also will save you time and energy when questions and feedback arise. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

And, while there are some limitations because of the webinar platform features, good design will consider these options: Individual learning activity: Reading, listening to a podcast or watching video, on the job application, researching, practicing, and journaling. Tailor the Interaction to the Size of the Group. Medium: Up to 50 people.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

My job as both an organizational and technology leader is to make sure our technology is serving our mission. Here’s an exercise that a technology leader can do to help identify where process is working, and where it isn’t: first, step away from the computer. Have you ever mapped out data flow on paper like Judi?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

How do you write a question for a comment board that will generate authentic, on-topic, diverse, interesting visitor comments? You can make direct comparisons in real-time, and the speed of the exercise means no one gets too precious about their own question being "best." I'm learning things from this exercise all the time.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

To determine if a nonprofit virtual assistant is right for you, try this exercise: Write down all the tasks you will need to do in the coming month. For example, many VAs can handle small design jobs on Canva, but you won’t know for sure until you view their work samples. Do You Need a Nonprofit Virtual Assistant?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 18, 2020

2) Again, if possible, take a full hour lunch break where you go for a walk, garden, bike, or other exercise during the workday. Make sure you have the tools to do your job. If you have the space, set up a permanent workspace for you that has all the tools you need to do your job. Add them in the comment section below! .

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Not all volunteers want to exercise their occupational expertise; some prefer to diversify. Pro Tip : Create a comment box. The comment box is an anonymous way for a volunteer to raise concerns without singling themselves out, and it will guarantee honest feedback. If the budget permits, allow guests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

But for many, those tasks are not necessarily the whole job even if your organization culture is streamlined and simple. Getting exercise, taking breaks, drinking water, and making time for solitude. Most of our work as social media nonprofit professionals is to be present on our online communities, listen, engage, and manage content.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 24, 2009

Exercise is one of the best things you can do since it usually helps you feel better physically and mentally. Working for a nonprofit can be a very rewarding job, but also a very stressful one. Click on the comment link and post away! Watch your behavior, your movement, and your responses. Live simply and live purposefully.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 25, 2015

Here’s how she thinks any nonprofit can train their board members to get the job done. Here’s a powerful morale-boosting exercise/game you can play with your board members to help them create and rehearse their personal story. They need to learn how to “shut up” and let the other person react and comment. Here’s How!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Chip Conley was the keynote speaker at last week’s Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp and one thing that he said that has been stuck in my head is: “ You can have a job, a career, or calling “ The latter, a calling, is when you can tap into an internal motivation that fuels and inspires you. It resonated.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. At one point, Mark commented that they have a "deliberately unsustainable" business model. Most want to provide consistent jobs for their employees so their families can be secure. They're made to plod along.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Permal Shah of Kiva.Org talked about the importance of linking with stories and building bridge between the donor and the results. Permal’s comment made me think about some of my first experiments in social fundraising, where I raised money for the Sharing Foundation to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng S.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Many engaged in the pre-session morning exercise program and the post-session fireside chats. When employees make these connections between countries and different jobs, it gives them new meaning and more investment into their work. Share your experience in the comments. Their level of engagement extended beyond the sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

So, weirdly, my whole job description is to work with other departments to develop and implement their social media stuff--but nobody knows my position exists unless they personally know me (which most people don't). We actually have developed a pretty robust social media presence. But they didn't tell anyone on staff about it!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to send in any chats or questions or comments along the way. Kathleen, thank you for the comments, and I admit that I’ve just been going through this deck and not looking as much at the comments in the chat. Steven, are there any other comments or questions that are coming in yet? .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 14, 2017

It’s a great exercise. If you do a good job with that, they’ll help you with your online fundraising. Share with us in the comments below! Your online donation form is used by many of your older, traditional donors because it’s convenient for them. Just ask them to sit down and make an online donation to your organization.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's no coincidence that Beth Harris' last job was as Director of Digital Learning at MoMA. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. They are connecting you with knowledge and inspiration in more creative ways. the way the best museums do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

I like the fact that I can have conversations with my readers in the comments. Do you write about your job or work? I cover the topics that relate to my job, but not my organization. I cover the topics that relate to my job, but not my organization. Also, the donors can see that they accomplished their mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Learn more about the comments. She was the facilitator for the event and did an excellent job keeping everyone on track and picking up key themes. These two young women were in the small group role play exercise. Can someone please leave their names in the comments? Helped with her IT assignments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. We don’t really care about views as much as we care about comments.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Give the job to someone who has an eye for aesthetics. Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. Curate a Board of quick, easy to learn exercises. I’m sure we can expand on this together in the comments. Pinterest users are looking for ideas and inspiration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Even for NTEN, which is extremely web-heavy in its mission, raw visit numbers will mean nothing related to how well it is doing its job. They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

tools] - it was a very interesting exercise, because it revealed the different ways of thinking about technology that we had. Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. A few comments over at Kikono too. For me, the web and 2.0 era websites. See below).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. And, well, the whole exercise was depressing. But those jobs aren’t the only ones that expect more for less. Our teams know what it takes to do their job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! I used the chat as a backchannel and invited people to add questions or comments as we went along. 09 was the first version I used). I had too much content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

I also have to say that having Chris's mom do such a fabulous job of time tracking helped me end on time (I wish we could clone her for every conference on the planet.) See this one of Marshall's feet) He even put up with me doing a public speaking exercise, shaking hands and singing twinkle, twinkle little star. Ma.gnolia 2.0

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so at any point, if you have a question, a comment, you want to just co-sign, give me a plus one, please keep your chat up so that we can keep talking and I’ll be looking at it while I’m going through my slides. What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people? What is the best possible job? In the house.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2009

For example, if an organization has rules regarding making public statements, including who can communicate, what that process might entail, what is allowed based on C3/C4 tax status, then, those controls should be exercised in any content published to the Internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

However, many nonprofits and charities have done a great job merging physical activity with virtual fundraisers with many positive results. Be sure to check into the latest exercising apps which make it easy to track your routes and number of calories burned. These types of events also work well alone or in small groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Organizations have to consider more than just Zoom and high speed Internet, everything needs to be digital to get the job done. This way, people can comment on or start a discussion about a certain item directly within the document – both asynchronously or in real-time. Digital space becomes more important than physical space.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments that you have along the way. But I know some of you have done this exercise, you know, at your board meeting. . Who do you exercise with? And my sole job is just to keep the salespeople out. But don’t be shy. You can use either of those.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2017

Not all volunteers want to exercise their occupational expertise, some would prefer to diversify their actions. Pro Tip: Create a comment box. The comment box is an anon ymous way for a volunteer to raise their concern ( s ) without singling themselves out , and it will guarantee honest feedback. .

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

This exercise doesn’t have to be scientific or precise. What are their jobs? I heard about this exercise at a conference and thought “I want to try this.” They were college-educated and had professional jobs. Which ones do people comment on? Write down their names and everything you can think of about them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

After we read through some of the responses and made some observations, we moved onto the next exercise. Next, I shared with the group what I love about my job at Central Florida Foundation. David Torre – I was able to show off David’s LinkedIn profile and how he did a great job of connecting the Foundation to his profile.

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