Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation. Recognize warning signs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation. Recognize warning signs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 23, 2021

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. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation. Recognize warning signs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

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. Bring cultural data into the organizational conversation. Recognize warning signs.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. It is voiced or expressed outwardly in society in some way. To the contrary, knowledge actually comes about through the shared social action of making sense out of our observations, experiences and interactions with the world. Learning, we do naturally.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. Among the noteworthy features included the ideal ecosystem are (i) the virtual events channel (reflecting the constraints newly imposed by COVID-19) and (ii) the increasingly feature-rich WhatsApp channel.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2021

Now is the time to step back and reflect on what is and isn’t working. Let’s move past traditional “talent development” to build leadership that is reflective of our communities, address the demands placed on nonprofit professionals, and mentor individual advancement. To meet the moment, we must: Be ready to release.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

In our Thought Leadership Spotlight, we’ll be hosting a conversation about organizational resilience and embracing a digital-first future. As we gain perspective following a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll use this opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned, and how to use those lessons to prepare us for the future.

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Candid

JUNE 7, 2023

As I dug into the advice, I couldn’t help but reflect on the way I engage with nonprofit social media: Is the use of humor and short-form video crucial for brands to grab my attention? But to truly understand how nonprofits can best engage Gen Z on social media, we thought it was important to bring my generation’s voice into the conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Part of the process includes regular check-in calls to reflect on what we're learning. It much easier to collect, analyze and take action with your data when you do a little bit each month or every other week. The key here is actionable data. Measurement should inform specific decisions and/or actions. Photo Views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. All slogans and no action. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. All slogans and no action. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. We adapted.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Help them to engage with your mission more fully by making it easy for them to sign up for occasional updates like an e-newsletter or action alerts. Content needs to be easily digestible and should be written in a way that reflects your brand’s unique tone of voice. . Define Your Goal + Have a Clear Call to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Shireen did a fabulous job of bringing in their voices. Wendy Harman from the Red Cross.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. In every instance, the content strategist takes a detailed look at the context of a collection, determines how to best engage audiences with it, and develops a message that inspires action and aligns with the institution’s goals and objectives.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

This week, I shared with Vanessa that during my time offline for the holidays, I found myself reflecting on just how many different frustrations I feel people in this sector have voiced over 2010 – to the point that I, honestly, feel really overwhelmed by the “sick and tired&# state of nptechers world wide.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

And it’s a direct line where you can share the work you do with your supporters to provide transparency and motivate your community for action. This post features a video of animals available for adoption and encourages people with matching names to come and adopt, providing a conversation starter for community members in the comments!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2009

Of note, I wanted to let you know that the reflection paper about America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation has been published ( Allison Fine and I were the co-authors.) I attended Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp on Saturday. (It looks very similar conceptually to the pioneering work from Social Actions.)

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, but mental health in the nonprofit workplace is a topic that calls for an honest conversation all year long. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. .

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2021

Now is the time to step back and reflect on what is and isn’t working. Let’s move past traditional “talent development” to build leadership that is reflective of our communities, address the demands placed on nonprofit professionals, and mentor individual advancement. To meet the moment, we must: Be ready to release.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. All slogans and no action. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

Culture 52

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. . I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. One of the reflections.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

Presented as an actionable playbook and in a very conversational style, Mayberry writes in his book about the confusion and negative misconceptions about culture and explores the five roadblocks to cultural excellence. All slogans and no action. Having ping-pong tables and other fun games in the office.

Culture 52

Culture Classes Build Lesson 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Engage in meaningful conversations with donors. Like Hindus, Buddhists have a required action called dana, the act of giving and sharing without anticipation of a benefit to the giver. Mission —The voice of your appeal must prominently support your mission, beginning to end. Review your constituent data. Taking place on Dec.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. Online fundraising. Peer-to-peer fundraising.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

The biggest factors that affect timelines are the goals the organization is trying to accomplish and the number of stakeholders who need to have a voice in the conversation. What processes can be optimized in order to provide value and give people actionable data used to make business decisions? Testing and go-live (days 60–90).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 8, 2021

What if you had time to reflect, think and process between sessions? Conversations meander in unconnected directions. You want people focused on their strategic conversation not struggling to make the tool work. Online it takes a little bit longer for people to jump into the conversation. Creating Norms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. 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? What's your strategy map?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In a small way we've begun such a process with the new collaborative PhD funding in Oxford's Museums, Libraries and Gardens [link] — Dan Hicks (@profdanhicks) November 11, 2019 Nikhil Trivedi suggested reading Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun's White Supremacy Culture document and reflecting on how those issues relate to management.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. Your survey may have been right for the 200 people who took it, but not reflective of what the other 2,500 attendees actually want from their member experience.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

How #CommBuild works Each week whoever wants to participate comes to Twitter, searches for the hashtag #CommBuild, and finds a conversation about topics tied to community management. But we always know we can return to Twitter and #CommBuild week after week for networking, reflection, professional development, and resource sharing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

But instead, he proposed a conversation that had… at its core… ten tiny toes, ten itsy-bitsy fingers, and a name. To make matters worse, one of the targets of Armstrong’s criticism had a mother willing to adamantly voice her displeasure with his proposed action on national TV, and sound like a mother bear protecting her cub in the process.

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