Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

However, read it only once you’ve committed yourself to creating a welcoming and productive work environment for all. With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 9, 2024

The problem is that DEIAB work is hard, and boards that seek to embrace these principles will likely face some resistance along the way. We’ll also discuss taking DEIAB from a one-off training to a sustainable part of your culture. DEIAB stands for diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and belonging. Christal M.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. The room setup fought with our design, but we managed to make it work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. Design for Participants To Apply. Participants should be encouraged to bring more than one person.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Your employees have different learning styles – typically falling within these three categories: Visual Learners Auditory Learners Tactile Learners Therefore, it’s best to incorporate all three styles when teaching something new, according to the book, Customer Service Management Training 101. On-the-job training works best for them.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

There was tremendous optimism about the value of training engineers and scientists and how that would benefit all of humanity, especially in the southern California of a century ago which was reshaped through the wonders of technology. Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

I use the themes to guide my professional work and writing. I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. I have continued my work as senior advisor to Lightful , a social media management tool for charities based in London.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

I’m interested in observing this new world of younger philanthropists. The course will take you 3-5 hours of work per if you plan to do the activities, less time if you just listen to the videos. The lectures are brief, fun conversations in the forums, and worksheets are great. Training Design' See you at the Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

That training was either expensive or a hodge podge of low cost webinars and free video tutorials available on the web. It incorporates many different ideas aligned with how people learn and how they learn best by moving away from the lecture and lecture notes and encouraging students to engage with their peers as they learn.

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DipJar

APRIL 14, 2022

They are a DipJar customer whose cause and work deserve to be highlighted. Calling him Tour Coordinator doesn’t begin to describe his work, as he also assists with bookkeeping, marketing efforts, various special projects, and — yes — giving tours to visitors from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 23, 2021

However, read it only once you’ve committed yourself to creating a welcoming and productive work environment for all. With 30 years of experience bridging gags in diverse workplaces, and as a sought-out lecturer and a TEDx speaker, Kriska provides expert insights and actionable strategies in her book to help you: Effectively repair division.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Online resource EdSurge has even compiled a five-point list for educators to help understand and begin merging VR into their lectures and lab exercises as well as how to create their own custom-made videos as supplements to their normal teaching routines.

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NCE Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Some of the students already work at nonprofits while others hope to when they are done with the program. It depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. I’m also doing a lot of training of other trainers. The event kicks off a semester long internship for students working with nonprofits.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

But that changed when he met Molly, a service dog your support helped train. Now, Sam is back to work, and is an active and productive member of our community in a country Sam was so proud to defend on the battlefield. John is active in the direct marketing industry and is a frequent lecturer and blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible. Of course, this would be optional for everyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. I don’t set goals, but use the themes to guide the type of work I will take on, what I want to write about on my blog as well as my professional reading and professional development. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

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 book goes into depth about each of these principles and how to incorporate into a training session. Source: Zazzle. How do you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. .” I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify.

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Higgins is co-founder and CEO of private investment firm RSE Ventures and a lecturer and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. That works for mundane undertakings, but birthing exceptionalism is a lonely endeavor. He was a guest shark on ABC’s Shark Tank seasons 10 and 11. Higgins : Forget "paying your dues."

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University. How did Cambridge Community Television get involved with social media and social media trainings?

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. It isn’t enough of a positive response to merit the work that goes into creating it.

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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. We worked in small teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

” The conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society. I’ve been working on this project for more than year. 12 training centers have been established.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Then we’ll give you the strategies you need to find volunteers who can truly make a difference to your organization’s work. It’s no secret that nonprofits rely on volunteer work. In this guide, we’ll introduce you to volunteer recruitment and its importance. What is volunteer recruitment? Request a Demo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2013

Stanford University lecturer Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen teaches students at Stanford about how to master philanthropy. Her ideas resonated and connected really well with the a lot of my work. At the time, I was working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with co-author KD Paine. at Stanford two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years. Having pioneered the idea of making strong security accessible to human rights practitioners, we helped dramatically change the way in which human rights work is done. Photo credits: Rom Srinivasan and Patrick Ball.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I'm preparing for a Social Media workshop next month called " Making Sense of and Success with Social Media " where the audience will be consultants who work with nonprofits in other areas (not technology). They want to know what works and what does not and what the value is.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

They “consume” or “buy” who you are, what you do, the values you stand for, and how you approach your work and treat the people you work with. Train all staff to be enthusiastic communicators. Seriously, when you reframe your work this way everyone wins. A lover, not a lecturer. Earning trust is work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

So, I gave participants quiet time to work a concept poster and time for rapid presentations of the posters. That is hard to do but a good professional skill in many other contexts than training. What part of the workshop was most useful to your work? Training Design' Here are some tips. Share your story in the comments.

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