Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. It’s a practice funders like to see, because an Advisory Board gives members of the affected community a voice. Advisory Boards Need Structure. The most likely reason is time. How long will terms be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2012

The handbook offers advice and resources for those who just starting out to those involved in well-established networks. To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network. If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. 1. Facilitating Tri-Lingual Events: Not Lost in Translation. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

You must proactively practice the craft of fundraising to reap active participation in philanthropy. Because, my friends, delivering happiness is the job of a true philanthropy (translated from the Greek as “love of humanity”) facilitator. By practicing the gentle art of fundraising. My first piece of advice is this: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. How To Become A Virtuoso Listener: Practice, Practice, Practice. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person. 8: Practice empathy for the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Sometimes easier said than done!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Editorial calendar provides the structure so you don’t have to randomly find content, but keep it flexible so you can post breaking or timely news related to your organization or the issues it tracks which gets more attention and interaction. Measure Networked Nonprofit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.

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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. To say that social media facilitates distraction is not to say that social media has to control your awareness – you can take control back and through repeated conscious efforts. Pay it forward.

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Achieve

AUGUST 18, 2020

These core steps will give your event planning team a solid structure upon which you can build your auction strategies. Online auction software for planning the event and facilitating bids is the primary expense associated with hosting your first virtual auction. for a complete breakdown of best practices. Check out this.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2015

Communities of Practice NTEN Communities of Practice (CoPs) are affinity groups centered on specific topics of interest, from community management to Drupal to nonprofits in the arts. Volunteer committee members work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 29, 2022

If you are transitioning in a new Event Chair we recommend having your previous Chair document their “Best Practices” as a Hand Off Guide. Here are just some of this committee’s (many) jobs and our suggestions for committee structure: Collecting all guest names and contact information. Volunteer Coordinator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Our session used the following structure. Here were the questions we discussed: What advice to do you offer to those who might have a board member or a boss asks you to plan and implement a viral campaign? You can read a summary of the viral campaign here and here.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Earlier this year, BoardSource launched Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices , which is a comprehensive scan of current nonprofit board practices, policies, and performance. Structure yourself for success. How to Get Beyond B-Minus: The State of Nonprofit Boards Today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Nonprofit Use #2: Sharing Knowledge/Resources As Community of Practice Hashtags can create an ad hoc community of practice or a channel for people in a field to informally share resources or conversation. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

To start off, an eLearning consultant is an individual who provides advice and guidance to help organizations create successful eLearning programs. They provide advice and guidance to help elevate your learning business, which your team would then put into action. Let’s get started. What is an eLearning consultant? Course authoring.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2020

The time you spend learning best practices or software shortcuts will be paid back exponentially in efficiency in your workdays. Research time that doesn’t facilitate, spark, or lead to action in your donors and prospects isn’t time well spent, even when you have a little more time in your day. Create a balanced portfolio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been experimenting with integrating social media into instruction for the past five years, so the webinar was a great opportunity to reflect on practice. It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. Any advice about using Google Wave?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Or said another way, your new system most likely has created a more effective or efficient way of managing data and if you force the new system to replicate all the data content and structure of your old system, then you may bring many of the problems with your old data into the new system unintentionally. Trusted Advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I could practically teaching this class. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Move aside, Julie.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Forums, in particular, provide an organized structure for meaningful. nonprofits around the world, this session offers practical advice, resources, and recommendations to help you make decisions about the role cloud-based technologies play in your organization's technology. participation and knowledge sharing. tech-savvy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

What did you discover and how can you incorporate it into your practice? Finally, here's a screencast on strategic blog commenting, although a lot of the advice is mostly for those who already have a blog, much can be learned. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Del.icio.us

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He just retired out of private practice about five years ago. And so as a young plastic surgeon, he gathered five other plastic surgeons and said that we were going to spend a week in the Philippines and help as many kids as possible and then head back to their private practice. Bill is a retired plastic surgeon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

Social Media Best Practices (215). My strategy for content curation will be highly selective and focus more on quality than quantity. Content Curators are doing this and more platforms will facilitate curation. .” Here’s the number of followers for each pin: Nonprofit Infographics (287). I Love Magic Markers (237).

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. Yes, Bonnie, planning a virtual conference for the first time, I am sure that there were so many things you were like, “What in the entire bleep, bleep, bleep?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2015

Note from Beth: I’ve been facilitating a community of practice of community foundations, Knight Foundation grantees, over the past two years, that have been using the Knight Foundation Giving Day Playbook to take their practice to the next level. Photo credit: Silicon Valley Gives. Reaching Diverse Donors ( 2 p.m.

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