Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 19, 2016

From Paul Smith's book, Lead With A Story , here are the 10 reasons for embracing storytelling as a business tool : Storytelling is simple Storytelling is timeless Stories are demographic-proof Stories are contagious Stories are easier to remember Stories inspire Stories appeal to all types of learners Stories fit better where most of the learning (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2016

From Paul Smith's book, Lead With A Story , here are the 10 reasons for embracing storytelling as a business tool : Storytelling is simple Storytelling is timeless Stories are demographic-proof Stories are contagious Stories are easier to remember Stories inspire Stories appeal to all types of learners Stories fit better where most of the learning (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 30, 2015

From Paul Smith's book, Lead With A Story , here are the 10 reasons for embracing storytelling as a business tool : Storytelling is simple Storytelling is timeless Stories are demographic-proof Stories are contagious Stories are easier to remember Stories inspire Stories appeal to all types of learners Stories fit better where most of the learning (..)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

These include tried and true fundamentals of successful event and peer-to-peer campaign planning, and lessons learned during the pandemic. On event day, we weave storytelling throughout the event to remind participants of how their efforts help LLS bring light to the darkness. Stay Mission Centric. Embrace Your Donors’ Values.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

One of the most valuable is to incorporate a process evaluation, capturing what actually happened as the event or program unfolded. You can always learn from documenting as an event unfolds and having a formal reflection or debrief post program or event. .” Ask team members to reflect on their lessons learned.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

Donnie Claudino (pictured), TechSoup Canada's Marketing Manager, brought a lesson about how to use storytelling in online media. He began by sharing his own story: as an American, he found himself wanting to immigrate to Canada and used storytelling to land a job. He delivered his message in the form of a Web site and a video.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

In this post, Ken shares some surprising lessons learned so far. What are the lessons learned? Lessons Learned 1: Build it, and they will come We thought GISKIN was cool and different, but was it cool and different enough to actually attract people to the Park? Lesson: Have faith in your community. Was it too weird?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2012

From Paul Smith's new book, Lead With A Story , here are the 10 reasons for embracing storytelling as a business tool: Storytelling is simple Storytelling is timeless Stories are demographic-proof Stories are contagious Stories are easier to remember Stories inspire Stories appeal to all types of learners Stories fit better where most of the learning (..)

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

One of the most important lessons a nonprofit practitioner can learn in their career is that budgets are moral documents. What does that mean? It means that where your organization puts its time, energy, and resources is a direct expression of the things it values. This approach fosters long-term loyalty and a sustainable donor base.

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The Modern Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Lessons Learned from Giving Tuesday – Making the Most Out of the Busiest Giving Season For nonprofit organizations, Giving Tuesday is more than just a day of fundraising. The Power of Storytelling Successful Giving Tuesday campaigns have a common factor: they tell a clear, compelling story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Micro lessons on video, exercises, coaching, measure progress and put it online for free. Best practices for collecting actionable data. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By tapping into the power of storytelling, you can connect with your audience emotionally, thereby motivating action and support. We’ll provide five tips on how you can utilize storytelling to level up your nonprofit’s marketing materials and make a lasting impression. Let’s jump in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Storytelling Isn't Enough – You Have to Tell Good Stories. The most surprising thing Steve Daigneault shared was M+R Strategic Service's tests on the effectiveness of storytelling. Sue Citro shared tips from her experience evaluating and updating the Nature Conservancy's fundraising and outreach program.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium is to highlight current best practices, lessons learned from the field, and trends in effective nonprofit and philanthropic board leadership, as well as board recruitment and retention. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Feb 21 - 24.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Are you just setting these aside with the idea of returning to them all later, when funding is available, or is a larger re-evaluation merited? One lesson I think we’ve all learned (or had reiterated): Having fundamental documentation of your collections and your physical space opens up near-infinite possibilities to build upon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With many shifts in the charitable and nonprofit sector over the last several months, organizations have re-evaluated their strategies, re-imagined their events, and re-shaped their fundraising campaigns. Along with the challenges faced by the social good community, there have also been inspiring moments of collaboration and opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. I designed the course to reflect lessons learned from my doctoral research. Evaluate it! From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. As an online learner? Reference the source.

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M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I took away a few lessons from Taylor’s smashing success that nonprofits can apply to communications and media relations. The M+R media relations team has had success evaluating the tools and methods of communication our clients are already using, and Tayloring tailoring them for new approaches and press engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. I also like to practice my storytelling skills. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pt 2 Re-evaluating YOUR annual report Pt 1 Why did an agency create an Impact Report, anyway? A Tough Lesson By following our own data-driven advice, and re-examining the traffic and conversion stats for our 2022 report microsite, we reached a difficult conclusion: the answer to our questions was predominantly ‘no.’ Informed by data.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Know Your Audience Storytelling for Impact Leverage Social Media Harnessing the Power of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Optimizing Your Website and Donation Forms Participate in GivingTuesday Don’t Leave Out Your Board! Storytelling for Impact When you are planning a campaign, you’re doing more than just writing out a series of appeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

This translates into digging deeper into these ideas: Return on Investment: This is looking at frameworks that let nonprofits evaluate the effectiveness of their social media strategies given the investment. Will continue to do free agent fundraising for the Sharing Foundation and sharing my lessons learned.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Storytelling / #npstoryconf / @501videos. Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. I participated in a lively exploratory conversation about "How do you evaluate network effectiveness?" evaluation field, how it has changed and get a deeper understanding of developmental evaluation. But first, some context. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? And so, yeah, I mean, my lesson on this is planning for the unexpected never hurt anybody. But I think fundraising and capital campaigns are all about storytelling. Steven: It kind of goes back to what Aaron was saying about storytelling.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. Nonprofit Storytelling Conference. The Nonprofit Storytelling Conference is unlike any conference you've ever attended. Nov 10 - 11.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

What : This is a chance for local organizers to share stories and lessons learned and network with those considering starting a group. Open Data Storytelling: Learn how to best tell your organization’s story. Workshop leaders will offer feedback and evaluation. Local Community Organizers (#localco). When : 10:30 a.m.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2019

Our experience now is that different lessons are learned when the management participate in collecting the data themselves. Something we learned about food through the interviews was that the guests consider the food at the museum as part of the museum's storytelling.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. It tends to be ideal when catering to the emotional side of issues and is well-utilized for user generated content. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. Have a response process.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. When we finish projects at Flipcause, we like to run a final “ post-mortem ” meeting to reflect on our successes and take time to tease out our lessons, conclusions or takeaways. Evaluate Remember the measurable goals you set in the beginning? This feels amazing.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Call me crass, but this was a lesson learned the hard way. Ask the candidate/vendor to evaluate areas of improvement on your site. Seeing as humans have the attention span less than that of a goldfish , you may need the extra time to focus on storytelling. If they don’t have immediate recommendations, move on.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. When we finish projects at Flipcause, we like to run a final “ post-mortem ” meeting to reflect on our successes and take time to tease out our lessons, conclusions or takeaways. When it’s all over, evaluate your fundraising success. Do include visuals and a video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. Storytelling and Knowledge Transfer :: sharing innovations, lessons learned, fail stories, and emerging best practices. Training and Peer Learning :: skill-building, knowledge sharing, and network building.

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