Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies. Survive, Reset, Thrive (SRT) is a practical and innovative interconnected three-mode approach : Survive : Stabilizing your business when a shot hits. Taking proactive measures.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

Companies large and small are investing in purpose and social responsibility programs: Our report includes an analysis of employee engagement trends across companies with 0 – 100,000+ employees. This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Many of the tools organizations work closely with were built by different teams with different business models. Some common challenges amongst organizations include: Not knowing where to start. Because of this, they aren’t incentivized to talk to each other, which makes it difficult to see the full picture and make decisions quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Measure Social Media Foundation Reflection 101

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The weakening economy has created a ripple effect across all types of businesses, including the charitable sector. Typically, systems are in place to help each department meet these challenges and work effectively. What is Business Intelligence? Strengthening Stewardship with Business Intelligence. Krista Endsley, Sage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.

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Washington Metrics Facebook Donor 85

Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

Fundraising for any nonprofit can be a challenging task. Pet businesses—from kennels to dog washes—are a logical connection to your organization. Holding challenges or activities. As you move forward with your chosen fundraiser and the tips above, ongoing data collection and analysis are crucial for success.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

With a unique energy and do-anything attitude, she understands that a community must network and join forces to create and grow successful businesses. Based on this philosophy, Cora makes it her business to open doors to a path of continual success for companies of all sizes. Virtual events and challenges. With over 3.5

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

Meet the challenges of managing remote employees, a diverse workforce, gig workers and the rise of artificial intelligence. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. Question: What would you most like business leaders at all levels to think and do differently after reading your book? Harter, Ph.D.

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Conversation Interview Review Culture 52

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Understanding data is critically important to success in any business. Combat the challenges of donor retention? The Foundation concluded after years of effort what then-Paul Brest feared at the beginning of the effort in 2006: Personal philanthropy may sometimes be so profoundly emotional as to be invulnerable to rational analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The challenge has to do with organizational beliefs and work styles. Whether it be a widely held belief that measurement practice is not worth investing resources. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. It is used to improve content, messaging, and engagement on specific channels.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In all seriousness, 2013 has been an incredibly busy and productive year for us. We just dedicated our first crowd-funding campaign, Bookshare for Veterans —part of the Skoll Foundation’s Social Entrepreneurs Challenge on CrowdRise—to this goal and are enhancing our outreach to veterans who need access to books and information.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In case you weren't yet convinced, I imagine this clear declaration -- which ties the concepts of business innovation like incremental improvement of steam power to making vaccine delivery more effective -- will move the needle for you. In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. The Digital Operations Center is one response to this scaling challenge. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis? Disaster work. How long do you need to archive the data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The well-intended “programs” that don’t work are nothing more than a relabeled annual job satisfaction survey that combines “agree and strongly agree” responses into a “% favorable metric” that looks good on the surface but hides problems. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. Harter, Ph.D.

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Conversation Interview Review Culture 40

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations. Also, I think a lot of nonprofits are in the early implementation stage and to be able to get to traditional ROI - they need experience guided by tracking insights and metrics. Numbers need context - and that context - insight - can help with improvements.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

This session will get serious about the challenges faced by business and program leaders who are expanding their work beyond the U.S. Come share your challenges, learnings, great tips, and plans for global expansion. Like a business plan, it includes a budget and timeline, and is written in a clear, accessible way.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

On the federal grant side, and increasingly on the foundation side, new regulations and policies have made survival as a grant-funded organization more challenging by adding additional layers of accountability and complexity for grant recipients. This period laid the groundwork for the changes we see today in grant administration.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Nonprofit boards are accustomed to relying on business leaders for their membership. But business leaders as board members don’t fully understand the nuances of a nonprofit’s mission. After all, nonprofits are about people, not profits (hence, the term “nonprofits”).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Throughout the 3-day conference, industry experts, customers, and partners participating in the higher education track shared what the higher ed landscape looks like today, challenges, new opportunities, digital transformation, and more. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector. They want to connect. They want to share in more than one medium. They are in control.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" Techies often feel the strain of being "misunderstood"; I would challenge each and every nonprofit technologist to begin by first understanding their organization.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Full disclosure: I’m not always a fan of events for nonprofits, primarily for reasons related to overhead, organizational focus, opportunity cost and challenges of demonstrating Return on Investment or Mission. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric.

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Volunteer Social Media Interaction Demonstration 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Is there a creative thinking challenge? The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. If you want to hear the business perspective, the phrase "find the right six or seven people" came from a talk that David Meerman Scott did at the New Marketing Summit. Now it is your turn.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The digital environment is a loud and busy landscape; competition for donor attention is at an all-time high. Orchestrating the efforts on these various platforms can be a challenge without an overarching strategy to unite them. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Analyze key metrics in your database. Social media platforms.

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Digital Strategy Create Phase 98

fusionSpan

APRIL 7, 2023

Most companies leverage a variety of software platforms to manage their businesses. For a small commercial business, this may be limited to one or two systems, like a CRM and marketing tool. This means you can connect all of your business systems, regardless of their location or type, via a single platform.

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Associations Org Integration Model 52

Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In his speech, he pledged to "create a new corps of business volunteers to partner with counterparts in Muslim-majority countries." Muslim relations.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the conversation, diners engage in an interactive activity to consider challenging questions about race, identity, and economic justice over a meal. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.” Participants observe a conversation on a select topic amongst an expert panel.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 67

Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2022

And participants are not alone in facing challenges in this process. We need common goals and metrics across organizations, funders, and communities so we can track progress toward objectives like reducing poverty, improving education, and boosting community health. Funders see detailed program analysis that shows dollars at work.

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Community Industry System Accessibility 90

Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After the conversation, diners engage in an interactive activity to consider challenging questions about race, identity, and economic justice over a meal. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.” Participants observe a conversation on a select topic amongst an expert panel.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

I know you’re super busy. And I operate a grants and fundraising consulting business, and we support nonprofits all over the country, started off primarily with those in the DMV area but it’s expanded since then. So what are some of the challenges that I’ve seen? Rachel, how are you doing?

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

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Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Even more, in our increasingly technology-driven society, stakeholders have round the clock access to real-time information, creating an even greater challenge for nonprofits in keeping up with the growing demands to produce more timely financial data. However, technology can also provide the solution. grants, major gifts, endowments, etc.)

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