Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2020

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The trends that appeared reflect that orgs struggle the most with Research and Analytics. One piece of advice that Rachel Clemens gave was to outsource your research when you can. Rachel’s advice: “there’s always a propensity to focus on what’s changing, but you can’t just drop the foundations.”

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Qgiv

MARCH 12, 2024

Corporate giving programs, which are akin to corporate social responsibility programs , often reflect a business’s moral compass. Track the data. Monitor the impact of the giving program using data tracking software to help improve the program over time. Add the program to a corporate giving database.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2022

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to record and frame a combined ask (operations, campaign or program funding, etc.) As the fundraiser, your job is to reflect back to the donor, via thank you letter and subsequent reporting, how their money was spent to create the impact they envisioned.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 19, 2022

The research reflects insights from a survey of 800 employees of nonprofit organizations and 1,500 nonprofit program participants across the U.S. Action for Children Offers Personalized Advice for Parents. that have accessed benefits or services from nonprofits. Action for Children , a U.K.-based

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this. No matter the approach, it is useful to have a structured approach and track trends over time. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results. Listening in Practice.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

Mentoring 40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

Mentoring 40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

Mentoring 40

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 22, 2009

The social network side of Social Actions is an exciting venture - it’s a way to make actions more personal and track the actions your participate in or start. Reflect on the actions you’re taking. Get advice. It’s built on Ning, so it has some features you’re probably familiar with, too. Share actions.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

When conducting training, you have to make the case to the audience that you are a knowledgeable speaker who understands the audience and their concerns (Ethos) and that the software can help the organization get from Point A to Point B in terms of generating revenue, conducting marketing campaigns, or tracking constituents (Logos), for example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. This social capital encourages employees to turn to colleagues to get useful assistance or advice about future initiatives. The number one thing we can do to help groups learn is to create space and time for reflection.

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Achieve

AUGUST 5, 2022

Additionally, don’t be afraid to take advice from acquaintances in the business and sales realm. Your brand is a reflection of who you are as an organization, conveyed in a compelling way to your audience, and can include the following elements: Logos or custom icons. Step 2: Leverage your brand. distinct brand identity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2017

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

Mentoring 44

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Candid

OCTOBER 4, 2021

These wise words from the late Maya Angelou reflect the John S. The study analyzed available endowment investment data for 26 of the top 50 foundations and found that our nation’s top charitable foundations outperform the asset-management industry's woeful track record on diversity in asset management. and James L.

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Achieve

MARCH 18, 2024

These insights will keep your application on the right track from the start and help you better understand the types of mission-aligned stories that will best resonate with the funder you’re trying to convince. Don’t listen to advice telling you to only use one or the other—both have their purposes in effective writing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

As one participant noted, “The consistent monthly time to reflect about learning was invaluable.” Second, the individual profiles don’t have metrics yet, so if you haven’t tracked and honed your content strategy and understand what engages your audience, you won’t be able to do that easily on individual profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I spoke to a group of nonprofit in Seattle a few weeks ago at Pyramid Communications who found the advice for taking incremental steps towards improvement very useful. Nicole agreed to write a reflection about how she went from crawling in measurement practice to running. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But the one similarity across all kinds of messaging is that they need to be relevant to and reflect your audience. If you’re part of a time and you find yourselves constantly re-evaluating decisions or getting way off track, you need to use creative briefs. I start by building my key messaging into the creative brief.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2017

Some of the best advice I ever received came from tidbits during casual conversations with my mentors," he adds. The mission statement should reflect this. Keep a journal of your mentoring journey so that you can track your goals and progress. It doesn't have to.

Mentoring 40

Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You can determine who your most engaged followers are by tracking who is actively interacting with you on social media. Keep track of the followers who comment, share, and mention your page the most. You can create a leaderboard to track your most active participants and post updates online for everyone to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc. I posted an announcement of the campaign on my blog and on Netsquared Posted a guest blog post at Katya's blog soliciting campaign advice in exchange to share my learnings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

She wrote up a brilliant reflection on how she is changing some of her online work habits. Don't feel that you have to read every blog post of the blogs you're tracking. " Well, it seems that some people Twitter from the toilet with their cell phones and others, if the Internet connection is good, take their laptops with them too.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit. These are all key signs that a team is burning out and needs some support to get back on track. Know what to look for and track how often bad days or moments occur to prevent burnout before it escalates. . A: Definitely. Excessive absenteeism and loss of purpose.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 11, 2020

It’s also worth creating some SMART goals specifically for the influencer marketing too, such as achieving a certain number of website visits or click-throughs, in order to track if it is valuable for your nonprofit and make future decisions on nonprofit marketing. 11 Digital Marketing KPIs That Every Nonprofit Should Be Tracking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Stretching beyond your comfort zone fast tracks your creativity. Flux reflects a paradigm shift for leaders. April offers this additional advice to leaders: “Leadership with the new script and a Flux Mindset means paying everyone enough, ensuring everyone feels safe and valued, and treating others as peers rather than subordinates.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. Happy New Year ! How about you? Year in Review. What is your theme for 2016? How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Sunlight Foundation provides power tools for open government, with online efforts such as Influence Explorer and Poligraft , which make it easy for anyone to track financial contributions and political influence, and Clearspending , a scorecard that tracks federal-government spending.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

We were finally launching our new website , a full rebuild to reflect our rebranding. My boss had been tracking my progress and gave me permission to be totally honest about my situation. It was February 11, 2020. We had finally shed our old skin, InterfaithFamily, and stepped boldly into the light as 18Doors. Keep on asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice. Connecting With Colleagues. Conference. (He even brought me some Tim-Tams.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Don't forget to fill out the comment form completely, so I can track you down if you win.) . While the advice in the book is geared for tests to improve a web site, these are translatable to social media experiments. Tags: experimentation googleanalytics reflection sandbox socialmediametrics. That's just about when I discovered.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 18, 2014

Last year our ‘Go gold with kids for cancer’ campaign was a really successful campaign because it had such a clear statement that reflected with people. One advice – be very clear to your audience, if you are running a three week campaign, none of the orders are processed until the campaign ends.”

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Childhood Cancer Raise Organization 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Make Time for Reflection. Build in daily or at least weekly time for reflection on your social media strategy and use to make improvements. Starting a personal blog which is an excellent way to build reflection time into your day. Try tweaking the strategy for several months in a row by building in reflection time.

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