Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Part 3 – Adopting and maintaining a new perspective and putting your human leadership into practice ( mindbuild ). Hortense le Gentil Earlier this year, the author shared these additional insights with us: Question: What is the primary takeaway you hope business leaders will take away from your book?

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When you adopt an innovative AMS, staff won’t have to learn a difficult code to build member reports or dashboards. TECH TIP: When you adopt Nimble AMS, you score the exclusive tool, Nimble Create , to supercharge your next annual report. Reporting on membership is vital, as it directly reflects on the health of your association.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2011

.&# It begins with a technology trigger, followed by the peak of inflated expectations and punditry. And, of course, all the funny comics showing the demise of Twitter and Facebook anything else that stands in Google + way to getting more adoption or increasing it stock value. Shared on Google + by Abid Shaikh.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Part 3 – Adopting and maintaining a new perspective and putting your human leadership into practice ( mindbuild ). Hortense le Gentil Today, the author shares these additional insights with us: Question: What is the primary takeaway you hope business leaders will take away from your book?

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Voice Leadership Authoring Life 82

Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Dilenschneider Today, Dilenschneider shares these insights with us: Question: What inspired you to write The Ultimate Guide to Power & Influence ? Question: Can you share a key lesson or insight from the book that you believe is particularly important for today's professionals? Share the lessons with your team.

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Influence Build Lesson Chapter 73

Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies.

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Literacy Advice Test Training 138

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. Where is that information stored?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education. Want to learn more about AI?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Here are some questions to ask yourself: How long does it take for your grantees to fill out your application? If your application has not changed in more than three years, it may not reflect your current goals, strategies, or priorities. That might be a sign that your form might require more time than a small staff can afford.

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Application Leadership Grant Philanthropy 88

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

But is this the right question? The data collected is usually owned by the grantmaker, not questioned, and not shared back with the grantee or any larger community. For many grantmakers, the answer to these questions is our own institutions. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Here are six best practices your nonprofit organization should adopt to increase collaboration and enhance its relationship with your audit firm. These questions could be centered around a large contribution that the organization received that they were not expecting, and if the organization is properly recording it.

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Relationship Practice Build Evaluation 70

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Try to adopt some of what they do. Herminia Ibarra Today, Ibarra shares this update: Question : When you wrote your book in 2015 did you think you would ultimately publish an updated edition? Reach out to three people in your company you always wanted to get to know and ask them for lunch or coffee. What do they do especially well?

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Leadership Skills Adopt Professional 52

Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

They’re concerned that the nonprofit sector isn’t taking AI adoption seriously enough, and you know what? Nonprofit organizations don’t have a stellar record for adopting tech for impact (note to self, make sure our donation page is mobile-friendly). Start by asking questions. They might have a point.

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Adopt Generation Picture Reflection 52

sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Once we embrace knowledge work, not as a technical task but as social construction, we then start to ask exciting questions about relationships, purpose, and movement. Learning and knowledge are intimately connected but are actually different. Learning, we do naturally.

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Knowledge Philanthropy Change Work 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2019

Now to recap some thoughts about what we presented and insights generated upon reflection. He also touched on what skills and mindsets fundraisers need to adopt, including using Behavioral Economics as discussed in the book Change for Good. And, also Selene Nicodemo, who made a lot of logistical accommodations. The New Ecosystem.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As Candid moves to more proactively promote equity in the broader social sector, we also continue to reflect on what our own role might be in supporting that effort. Equitable access begins at home Last year, Candid formed a new Equitable Access department to apply a long-term lens to addressing this question.

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Training Train Proposal Course 105

.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

Our members were privileged to hear their reflections on a unique time in their organizations’ history and how the pandemic’s impact reshaped their future. Because the extent of the governor’s legal authority was questionable, the messages were mixed and confusing. There was no end date for this edict. How can I help you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2009

At last weekend's Transparency Camp West , Ellen Miller from the Sunlight Foundation asked me a great question. "What are the characteristics of nonprofits that have successfully adopted social media?" . Not always moving forward faster than the speed of light, driven by deadlines, but also reflects. I think it is culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I also wondered about the historical context of change management and technology tool adoption, asking on Twitter if there case studies about the adoption of the typewriter in the workplace. Think about some of the changes reflected by this typewriter, manufactured by E. I was struck by his reflections of the Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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Social Media Reflection Media Social 91

Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

Fundraisers may find additional success by adopting the following professional service principles. Clients question bills, allies and opponents may request (or demand) records, and clients have an expectation of zealous representation and reasonable file-keeping. Treating Donors Like Customers (But Not in a Bad Way).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Giveffect, for example, offers online applications with options to customize fields and questions. Once your volunteer completes their onboarding and training, be sure to reflect that in their volunteer profile. Adopting the right software can completely transform your volunteer program. It can increase productivity and speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption. Specifically around the question, "What it is in the culture of organizations that are able to make the shift that is different from organizations that cannot?"

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Social Media Adopt Share Media 95

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

You can ask yourself at a minimum these questions as you formulate your CPS: What do we deeply care about as an organization, both internally and externally? Matt Mayberry Mayberry shares these additional insights with us: Question: A recent Glassdoor survey found +50% of employees said work culture is more important than pay.

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Culture Classes Build Lesson 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. In many cases, the slow to change eventually adopt or they no longer remain relevant to their constituents, donors, or loose their edge.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It’s not a binary question of whether your guidelines state you are or are not a climate or justice funder. Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . The climate crisis is analogous to the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

” (Here’s a reflection from Akhtar Badshah). Irving also acknowledged that there was a lot more work to do to get nonprofits to adopt these new technologies. He asked the audience a series of questions about whether or not they thought most nonprofits they knew were using the new tools to the great impact.

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Conversation Reflection Action Impact 97

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders. We adapted.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

We adopted more automation in the loading, cleaning, and coding of data. Over the past 21 years, we’ve strived to evolve Candid’s overall grants data set to reflect the needs of our ever-changing sector. Still have questions about incorporating Candid’s data set into your research? ii Grantmaking by U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

You can ask yourself at a minimum these questions as you formulate your CPS: What do we deeply care about as an organization, both internally and externally? Matt Mayberry Earlier this year, Mayberry shared these additional insights: Question: A recent Glassdoor survey found +50% of employees said work culture is more important than pay.

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Culture Build Impact Lesson 87

VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

Just as the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of virtual volunteering year-round for many organizations – a strategy that has increased impact and made volunteering more accessible for many organizations for years – what innovations from our pandemic era days of service can fuel an evolved vision for days of service?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Some reflections on the game: Many the networks in the room had a track record of working together and a number had deep social media expertise. I asked the "very comfortable" people the following question: What was your ah ha moment with social media, when you understood its power and benefit to your movement/network? .

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Social Media Reflection Network Strategy 82

Twenty Hats

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The first quarter of the session was devoted to the warm-up, because I wanted the participants to experience and reflect on the upside of a strong opener. Planning an engaging warm-up is simple if you adopt these three actions: 1, Acknowledge as many people as possible. Use a warm-up question. Make your warm-up question funny.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Adopt a decision-making framework. A question to ask yourself when you visit your nonprofit’s site is, “Can I easily understand what my organization’s purpose is and is it easy to measure the impact it has had on our community?” Take time out of your week to call a team meeting and asking questions.

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Grant Guide Proposal Nonprofit 79

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Adopt a decision-making framework. A question to ask yourself when you visit your nonprofit’s site is, “Can I easily understand what my organization’s purpose is and is it easy to measure the impact it has had on our community?” Take time out of your week to call a team meeting and asking questions.

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Grant Guide Proposal Nonprofit 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Second Wave Adoption The slide show comes from Nancy White (I've had slide share on my list. "I have been thinking about six practices around tool adoption. She starts off with a post that summarizes what she and her colleagues have been writing about as it relates to " Second Wave Adoption " and online collaboration.

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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Let’s explore how these two factors impact higher education and the potential strategies institutions can adopt. This leaves students questioning if they can make more money more quickly—and avoid student debt—by entering the workplace with a certificate instead of a college degree. What makes you stand out? Focus on differentiation.

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