Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

The highlight was a master panel with Dave Gray, Harold Jarche, and Jane Hart on connected learning and culture change needed to embrace this type of learning. We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. Why is learning the new important?

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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. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. How do you make your trainings or meeting more fun that can lead to more learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Now a parent with my own children, I involved my kids when they younger when I was fundraising for Cambodia or Creative Commons , We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. Learning To Give. And it can be a rewarding experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

We also discussed use cases, benefits, limitations, adoptions, and lots of practical tips. If you want to continue learning about AI for nonprofits, register for the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit , using the code VIRTUAL. Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated. That’s the future.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 14, 2019

The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

How do you learn? When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? The brain science literature suggests that learners understand and remember more when they talk about what they are learning.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

You’ll learn how Nonprofit Cloud can increase your organization’s social impact. As we gain perspective following a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll use this opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned, and how to use those lessons to prepare us for the future. The best part?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

As a trainer, I’m intensely interested in creating learning experiences that integrate or about how to use the technology for nonprofits that engage and inspire people to put the ideas into practice. I’ve been obsessed with peer learning and self-directed learning models in my own learning and the trainings I design and facilitate.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

Yet 58 percent of Americans have a library card, 69 percent say their local library is important to them, and many Americans would like to learn more about borrowing e-books. Want to help people learn how to use e-readers? Librarian Brenda Hough will discuss how library instructors are successfully navigating this sea of change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. Find out what he did or didn't do.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

We’ll examine the increasing competitiveness schools face and discuss strategies for recruiting students, awarding scholarships, fundraising, and effectively tracking enrollment numbers across campus. Take advantage of this opportunity to gain insights and foster a constructive dialogue on the role of AI in your school.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. From a very young age, it is through stories that we learn about ourselves, those around us, and the world in which we live. 2) Information Hub.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 7, 2016

The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. Find out what he did or didn't do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The stories are told in the best way for the platform or what we called “optimized” and the narrative is aligned. It is also important to learn how to experiment telling your story in new and emerging channels. To be successful, fundraisers need to learn how to speak “emoji.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. I was just learning how to write a book. 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.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. Find out what he did or didn''t do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 16, 2014

The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. Find out what he did or didn''t do.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’ve all heard the sentiment that making mistakes and failing is acceptable as long as we learn from what didn’t go right. Although we are aware that mistakes are necessary for learning and progression, we are still afraid of admitting our failures. We’ve learned that admitting a failure means taking the blame.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Dreamforce is Salesforce’s pinnacle event that unites Trailblazers from all over the globe for three days of learning, networking, philanthropy, and fun. Learn from Cloud for Good + Pencils of Promise on how to use these innovations to keep donors engaged in your mission. . Be sure to request a meeting before times fill up. .

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Nimble AMS

JULY 11, 2022

Create discussion groups in your online member community inspired by topics from your career center, such as job interview tips or resume techniques, to deliver a superior member experience. TECH TIP: Accessible with Nimble AMS, use myTrailhead to teach members how to use your career center and access its many features. Learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

​. What Makes Social Learning so Interesting? A Comprehensive Examination of Social Media in Our Learning Programs. Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. New more consistent source of materials.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2015

The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. Find out what he did or didn''t do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be co-hosting The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where almost 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

The best thing you can do as a leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Then, discuss with him how the mistake happened. Find out what he did or didn''t do.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition. I will be discussing a total of six topics, each of which I will only allow myself 15 minutes to write. The first two topics will focus on the direction of the “Learning Management Systems Industry (LMS).” Topic 2: Where is the LMS Industry Going?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

There is no magic pill to take, rather it is a commitment to lifelong learning that is enriched by every solicitation of prospective donors — no matter what the outcome is. Every day should be welcomed as an opportunity to learn more about fundraising. Our profession and the world in which we carry it out is constantly changing.

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

Teach them about fundraising. The Governance Committee, responsible for ensuring the board can fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities, should work with the Finance and Fundraising Committees to create an Education and Training Plan with consistent opportunities for board members to learn about finances and fundraising.

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