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Nonprofits Are Adding Bots to their Social Media Teams

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. While easy to set up, designing an effective bot for a nonprofit from scratch can be daunting.

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New E-Book: #AI4Good – Nonprofit Trends and Use Salesforce.Org Cases

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report links to the Salesforce.org blog post on Principles for AI for Good. Questions such as how can AI algorithms be optimized to improve the lives of at-risk or vulnerable populations and other questions need to be addressed by non-technical people working alongside data scientists, engineers and algorithm coders.

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Grant Seeking 101: Getting Started

Connection Cafe

We’ll be looking much more closely at all four topics in my blogs in the coming weeks. Ideally, you’re starting a relationship with a grantor which will continue over a long period of time. How do you cultivate and grow this relationship over time?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog - Untitled Article

Eric Jacobsen Blog

If you have a manager who isn't the best communicator, you can suggest he/she read Jane Murphy's and Khatun Huber's book, What Could Happen If You Do Nothing? Actually, it's more of a handbook than a book, and it is best read by finding the section most applicable at the moment versus reading it start to finish.

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How To Make Sure New Leaders Succeed

Eric Jacobsen Blog

“ It has been estimated that 40% of executives fail within the first 18 months on the job, regardless of whether they were hired from outside the company or promoted from within ,” explain Dan Ciampa and David L. Dotlich , authors of the book, Transitions At The Top.

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Tips For Leaders When Listening, Learning And Persuading

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Make good use of this advice from John Baldoni’s book, The Leader’s Guide To Speaking With Presence : When Listening As A Leader : Look at people when they are speaking to you. Make eye contact. Ask open-ended questions, such as “Tell me about…” or “Could you explain this?”

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Tips For Setting Goals For Team Members You Manage

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some great tips for how to set goals from the book, OnePage Talent Management , by Marc Effron and Miriam Ort: The Harder the Goal, the More It Motivates – There is a linear relationship between a goal’s difficulty and the amount of effort and performance the goal produces.

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