Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Using rituals as part of our professional work is one strategy that can help. My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

bbcon 2021 Virtual , happening October 13–15, will bring together thousands of arts & cultural professionals from zoos, museums, aquaria, performing arts organizations, gardens, and beyond for three days of cutting-edge thought leadership, virtual peer networking and unforgettable experiences.

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CauseVox

MARCH 24, 2022

Filmmaker and storytelling expert, Rain Bennett, will walk you through how to utilize the power of storytelling via video as a key marketing technique to help hook your audience fast, while keeping them engaged for the long haul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they allow me to gain focus and clarity. 1) Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. My Three Themes: .

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Donor engagement is what your organization does to build and strengthen donor relationships and the methods you use to keep donors active and involved. Your donor engagement strategy outlines exactly how you’ll reach out to donors and the KPIs you’ll track to measure how engaged a donor is with your organization.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 20, 2024

But just as a microwave can’t teach culinary skills, generic AI can’t inherently understand your organization’s unique voice, mission, or brand. Helpful AI tools are popping up next to email replies, social posts, word processors and anywhere we are working with text.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 11, 2022

47% of members report joining an association for certifications or credentials and 45% say they chose an organization for job opportunities. . Send them personalized reminder emails about the benefits they could access, at reduced rates, if they joined your organization. Activate your online community. Learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

For over twenty years, I do several rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead because they help me to gain focus and clarity. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. Here they are: My Three Rituals. My Three Themes: .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Do you create an environment at your business/organization that allows peer coaching to succeed? You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Hopefully you do. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. by Eric Jensen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Baseball and your Learning Organization. I could talk about learning techniques utilized in the past seven games and why players were less intimidated by pitches they encountered the second and third time around, or possibly what a combined 176 years of waiting can teach us in preparing for the future. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

I did make time to attend different sessions and walk through the exhibit hall, but one of the most exciting things I saw was the “ Gamestorm: Take on the Refugee Crisis ” organized by colleague Brian Reich for USA for UNHCR , the agency that helps and protects refugees and people displaced by violence, conflict and persecution.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Do you create an environment at your business/organization that allows peer coaching to succeed? You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Hopefully you do. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 8, 2019

Do you create an environment at your business/organization that allows peer coaching? You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Hopefully you do. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 1, 2021

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. Noah Fleming Fortunately, in Fleming's timely and intensively relevant book , he shows you through strategies, exercises and examples what to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Has your organization from a data nerd to help you?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“How you show up, what you stand for, and what actions you take to that end—as an individual and as a leader in your organization—are now gating factors to lasting success,” explains Frank Calderoni in his new book, UPSTANDING: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth. It is earned as much as it is defined.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! I love being exposed to new ways of working, taking process notes, observing techniques, and thinking about how to apply to my own work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 4, 2018

Do you create an environment at your business/organization that allows peer coaching to succeed? You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Hopefully you do. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2020

Friedman teaches that there are seven steps , based on human virtues we all strive to achieve, that are key to unlocking the power of a people-first culture : Patience. Slowing down the hiring process to help you better choose the right candidate for any role, every time. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. Complacency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, I was lucky enough to be the online facilitator for a virtual leadership program for arts administrators co-hosted by the Cornell University School of Management where I learned and practiced a range of instructional techniques for teaching adults.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 17, 2021

Cause Camp was virtual again this spring, but thanks to a revolutionary platform and the A-game of our all-star speakers , attendees walked away with new networking connections, ideas and insights to help them do more good. . Peter focused on the data behind the driving force of our organizations: supporters. Lifetime Value (LTV).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, reading Eduardo Briceño ’s bold and highly applicable book, The Performance Paradox , will help you break free of chronic performance. To be constantly learning Briceño says your organization needs to add the Learning Zone into your company’s DNA. Common habits that suppress individuals and teams from improving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

I have a couple of New Year’s rituals that help prepare me for a new year. But, it isn’t just about learning new techniques or ideas. I will writing about the tools and techniques for being more focused in age of distraction – both on my blog and guest posts. 2014 will be the year of learning for me. My Three Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The program is specially design to leverage the power of technology in supporting women’s rights and social justice leaders and organizations to advance their work and impact. The participants represent a diverse cohort of 41 women’s rights and social justice leaders from 18 organizations from 11 states across the country.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

The chatter is everywhere, and it can be challenging for organizations, especially those that tend to have fewer technical resources on staff, to know how these new tools might help (or hinder) their work. AI is the process of using computers to help perform tasks automatically that could previously only be done by humans.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Do you create an environment at your business/organization that allows peer coaching to succeed? You'll likely find that everyone on your team has a skill, technique, behavior that they can teach a fellow team member. Hopefully you do. If you don't, encourage peer coaching among the members of your team.

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