Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. Question: The book's servant leadership teachings are particularly interesting. Why did you decide to include that material in the book?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The MOOC , is a Stanford University-sponsored FREE online course intended to teach givers of all ages, backgrounds, incomes and experiences to give more effectively. There is no better way to improve your own teaching than being a student! Giving 2.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. It is a well known fact that exercise helps you think better. (And View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Graduate Students at MIIS Class Doing Group Exercise in Flexible Classroom Space. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially technology related. I used this a variety of ways: whiteboard interactive lecture and brainstorm; sticky note exercise; and student work space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. Some Reflections. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants. When learners enter the room, I ask them to reflect on their “burning question” or why did they want to take this workshop.

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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. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2007

Next week I'm teaching a two-part online workshop that includes a Webinar, Action Learning Exercise, and A Reflection Discussiona for Extension professionals and how they can begin to use tagging for collaboration and knowledge shraing. The reflection exercise can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. There is also an self-assessment exercise. organizational change, and technology. Program Design. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Howard Rheingold calls this process managing your attention or “ Infoattention ” and it is what he has been teaching in his courses. I’ve been trying to curate content that offers ideas, tips, and resources to get past that ugly feeling of “content fried.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

” I first used this exercise in 2011 in Lebanon to kick off E-Mediat project that brought trainers and capacity builders from 5 countries in the Middle East to be trained on curriculum based on my book, the Networked Nonprofit , and interactive training techniques. .” Each country was represented in a different color.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. This is important for both online and offline instructional delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session. What I Was Inspired To Adapt.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills. Sport, play, and physical exercise help these children overcome some of the stresses they carry with them. In 2005, a visit to Right to Play in Sierra Leone with skateboarding icon Tony Hawk changed my life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2011

To reflect on how these modules might be used in their own trainings. The session provided strategy theory and a simulation exercise based on creating a digital activism campaign for the Story of Electronics film (that now has Arabic sub-titles ). Both language and what you’re teaching. Mary Joyce, Digital Campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The space was large enough so we could have small group tables, space for food, and space to do full group and small group moving around exercises. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I do a lot of small group and share pair exercises. There was also excellent AV support and acoustics.

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Social Media Reflection Learning Social 94

AccelEvents

AUGUST 4, 2021

The first part will have your participants reflecting on a past event or moment, but the second part enables them to share how they would want to be treated if they only had 30 perfect seconds left of life. Then, the leader will go through and ask each participant to share each of the reflections. Classification Game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Note from Beth: Last week, I had the honor of teaching a master class at the International Fundraising Congress (IFC) on avoiding burnout for fundraisers with Corinne Aartman in Amsterdam. Richard Sved, a fundraising consultant from the UK, participated and wrote a reflection on the UK Fundraising Blog.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Four Ways to Promote Healthy Risk-Taking: Open Communication: Nonprofit leaders can begin promoting healthy risk-taking by encouraging staff to embrace failure through safe discussions and reflection. Implementing these exercises is bound to bring any team closer together while encouraging organization-level growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Our charge was to teach back-to-back simultaneous workshops covering social media strategy for NGOs and social media tools. It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Through practical exercises, stories, illustrative case studies, chapter-by-chapter reflection questions and action items, you’ll learn how to harness the real and raw power of your mind to build solid workplace relationships for virtually any situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. She points out that you can’t teach people to be social, only to show what it is and help facilitate it. Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

To be successful in either teaching or learning, you have to slow down. I’m also interested in content curation and have been practicing it and teaching it, but want to take that to the next level. Saying no is a muscle that needs to be exercised daily. This year I’m incorporating a couple of techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I’ve been reflecting on the discussion we had about how meetings are “under belly” of an organization’s culture and ways to make incremental changes to improve meeting culture to avoid wasting time or frustration. Recently, I read about an exercise that you can do to intentionally improve the experience for all.

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APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Since were are on the Mediterranean Sea, I did the final reflective exercise as a walk on the beach. I got to perfect it when I taught master classes and workshops for NGOs and activists in New Zealand and Australia. Teach: This is my passion, my calling, and my professional work. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

As we become increasingly dependent on our technology, it only makes sense that it teach us as well. When building eLearnings it is necessary to consult people who teach and record their methodologies in making sure a message maintains its pertinence over time. Successful E-Learning – A Roadmap. Interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

But, you can't teach the way you feel comfortable teaching all the time. ? I am teaching two more sessions. The first session will introduce tagging and social bookmarking and an exercise. Participants will have two weeks to do the exercise and we'll write our reflections on a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

I think adding value is also about using your critical thinking skills. It made me wonder whether there were some useful ideas in the literature about teaching critical thinking skills that could be applied to content curation. In 1993, noted American psychologist and expert on critical thinking R.W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. The exercise usually takes 90-120 minutes in the afternoon, but participants were so engaged they didn’t want to stop for tea.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Or do these opening lines just reflect your own process of writing your way to the thing you really wanted to say? This can be an especially useful exercise when you have a vague sense that your copy isn’t compelling, but can’t quite put your finger on what is missing. Is this truly a compelling starting point?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. How do you de-clutter your professional online network? Do you have an intentional connection policy? … Read More Professional Networking'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress. Several participants reflected on how it is easy to fall into that trap and looked at beginning to schedule more time with people to build relationships that give them inspiration and energy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2024

Spodek guides you through what to do and how to do it in an integrated and comprehensive progression of exercises designed to cultivate key abilities, behaviors, and beliefs through experiences. The good news is that improving in each area, when you have effective exercises that give you relevant experience, is rewarding and often fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Greg Pass, CTO/Twitter, teaching new employees something called "Twittokinetics" and advises them to pay attention to what their doing, understand & own the problem & realize learning opportunities. If the first thing you do when you get up, is check your email.

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