Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Jenn Lim Today, Lim shares these additional insights, thoughts and advice about four-day workweeks: Question: In addition to the research supporting a four-day workweek, why do you believe more companies should adopt this practice? And, it allows time for play/flow/creativity to surface (our brains need time to unplug)!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. The era of winging it in social media is over. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Practice is nothing more than a series of failures that eventually lead to varying degrees of success. However, once theory is put into practice, reality often dictates a different outcome than they envisioned. It’s protective in nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2017

Recently, 60 Minutes did a piece on Brain Hacking or intentionally designing apps so you feel the need to to check in constantly. Rosen’s research can not yet determine what the impact is on our brains and lives as it too soon. Thrive also has a terrific section about how to unplug , packed with practical advice.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2017

If you’re having trouble focusing, you may be suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting at work. My advice: stop using your computer keyboard as a lunch tray. My advice: stop using your computer keyboard as a lunch tray. Instead, incorporate a brain-replenishing walk into your lunch hour.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2020

It’s our brain signaling that if we try something and fail, we’ll be embarrassed or judged. Practice is nothing more than a series of failures that eventually lead to varying degrees of success. However, once theory is put into practice, reality often dictates a different outcome than they envisioned. It’s protective in nature.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

In all, there were over 30 overlapping sessions, plus breakout rooms, allowing inquisitive minds to pick the brains of developers, configurators, architects, and anyone responsible for building on Salesforce. DevOps Sessions + Speakers. 3 Key Takeaways from DevOps Dreamin’. If you can dream it, Gearset can build it.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

Today’s question come from a fundraiser and donor who wants advice on how to handle poor donor engagement: Dear Charity Clairity, I’m a fundraiser, but also a donor. I know you understand, and practice, this philosophy. Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. As we face an even darker winter due to the pandemic, we need to keep improving our resilience, the ability to adapt well in spite of significant stressors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In This year we hiked by the Pacific Ocean in Big Sur. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2018

Worst, there is trouble at the top: brain fog. Practice 20/20/20 for 20/20: Eye strain is a common workplace complaint.Symptoms include headaches, dry eyes, red eyes, trouble seeing clearly even wearing glasses, and more. Here’s more advice about disrupting non-productive use of your mobile phone and avoid addiction.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this roundup, I compiled the best year-end fundraising advice from several nonprofit consultants in my network. Use these best practices to get a jumpstart on your year-end planning. If you had one piece of advice for successful end-of-year fundraising what would it be? Just start now with this year-end fundraising advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

As a trainer, one of the most exciting parts of working on a book is developing instructional materials based on the content and leading workshops to help put the ideas into practice. Over the past six months, I have been developing and piloting workshops on self-care and we-care as part of the leadership development training I do.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Practice, patience and time are your friends if you want to improve your writing. Vanessa of today knows that this is merely what my brain wants to do and if I don’t feed into, it will pass, and I can get to work. And writing fundraising emails is its own wonky subgenre.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. He referred to a Stanford study that showed that successful, brilliant creative people go through a game of ping pong in their brains as they create: This is good!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

” I’ve gone back to his workbook based on his first book to practice and improve visualization skills and thinking as well as drawing. He was the keynote speaker at the 2012 NTC this year talking about the ideas in his recent book, “ Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

It’s for people who want to go deeper and get practical know how, improved productivity, and integrate physical and virtual lives. Breath links mind, brain, and body – and paying attention to your breath help cultivate mindfulness. Rheingold reminds us of the value of becoming a content curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

One goal that I had was to a peer support community through the twitter hashtag # npsmpeer – where nonprofit social media managers could share advice and support one another. When the energy drops, people’s brains go to sleep. Love how this peer-to-peer workshop on non-profits + community management is being run.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online. Personal Productivity in Practice. What is personal productivity?

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BoardAssist

JULY 22, 2014

Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. You need to be ruthlessly practical about this visit. Ask for advice. I’ve talked a lot about Advice Visits here , here and here. Just say you want to pick their brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Beth Kanter: Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Self-Care Assessments, Plans, and Practices. Aliza Sherman: Practicing Mindfulness and Tech Wellness. The tips are great for teams of individuals to practice together. I particularly like the advice about “monotasking.” Train the brain to deal with chaos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. Bear in mind that the model isn’t practical in all situations. Use Learning Theory.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 20, 2015

when he lost his wife to a brain tumor. He quickly changed gears and founded the Kelly Heinz-Grundner Brain Tumor Foundation and now serves as the president and CEO of the Delaware Alliance for Nonprofit Advancement (DANA). Setting up best practices, job descriptions and term limits are key components to stable leadership.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. Q: WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO NONPROFITS TO PREVENT BURNOUT FROM SPREADING? A: Definitely.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Now you know what details to include on your flyer, so it’s time to put them into practice. The positioning and size of the text immediately draw the viewer’s focus to the call to action, planting the seed in their brain for taking action and helping your cause. Let’s get inspired! Tip 1: Highlight calls to action.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2020

It might be obvious, given a full-time job, consulting practice, and weekly blog. From my own side, I have so much energy, if I don't find plenty to keep my brain busy, I can go awry. It shouldn’t be a chore to find out where to get advice and help. Before I turn the blog over, I'm going to tell you the truth. I'm a workaholic.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Kristi Phillips, Account Manager, Education Practice, Exponent Partners. Chris Lundberg, CEO, Frakture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. When I use this technique in a face-to-face workshop, I “bumble bee&# around and listen to the discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

I conduct a survey that collects information that I can analyze against a maturity of practice model I’ve created called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.&#. I had a fairly large group and an excellent space to work in. So, I was able to get folks to self-assess where they were on the on the model and then group themselves in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

What’s your advice to nonprofit professionals? Science is showing us that the brain can really only do one thing at a time. What is your advice about consuming the news these days and how to be an activist but also balance self-care. Add to that what’s happening in our world today, and you have a recipe for stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, this handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network. What's the pork chop factor?)

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ANNs are inspired by the structure and function of the human brain. Even though Chat’s decision-making is governed by algorithms, its data set is large enough to provide advice on a myriad of topics. A common sense and practical approach. Spam filtering, fraud detection, and recommendation systems are examples.

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NTEN

JULY 22, 2010

The majority of the time I spent thinking, I can't believe it's taken me this long to watch our own webinars and listen to our own advice! It benefits the organization to have it written down in one place, where everyone on staff can see our plan, as opposed to storing it in the collective NTEN brain. (What makes it official?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo by JTLowery The title of this post is play on the famous PSA " Brain on Drugs " from 1987 to raise attention to the harmful effects of drugs. The memorable tagline : This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Does growing up digital evolve young people's brains? Any questions? That's impressive.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

“ We hope you find their advice useful as you navigate 2019! First, believe deeply – in your heart and then in your brain – that donors matter. Enjoy them now; then practice a year-round attitude of gratitude. Mark Rovner , founder and CEO of Sea Change Strategies. Joyaux , ACFRE, Joyaux Associates.

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