Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Work backward from the end goal. What metrics will you be evaluated against? Think like an owner. Leave nothing ambiguous.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

Gorick Ng is a career adviser at Harvard Collage and during the last four years, he’s interviewed more than five hundred interns, early career professionals, managers, and executives, across the globe. Work backward from the end goal. What metrics will you be evaluated against? Think like an owner. Leave nothing ambiguous.

Job 52

Job Interview Articulate Problem 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Without an internal understanding of humanity, it’s hard to be audience-centered. If your metric is more people in the door, you might be tempted to completely twist and transform yourself in a brazen attempt to get people in. We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The Ocean Conservancy is dedicated to the goal of a healthy ocean by increasing public awareness of ocean issues and bringing significant changes to the way oceans are managed. The Ocean Conservancy picked very specific, narrow objectives for their experiments and specific metrics to measure them.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

It encourages brains to come together, keeps everyone rowing in the same direction, and brings a laser-like focus to hitting those big, audacious goals. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve. Now, who wouldn’t want to be a part of that?

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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. Community managers need to be the “Internal Evangelist” for these companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

An effective website starts with a plan that includes clear goals for fundraising and communications. These goals should guide what your priorities are, what content and functionality you will provide online. If your primary communications goal is education, do you have engaging content that's easy for visitors to locate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools. Some of the posts shared some great case studies, insights, and tips about each step of the process: Set Goals. Pick Metrics.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

But she’s like this fear buster to help you set your goal and just kind of like, “Great, it’s fear, embrace it. ” And so I was listening to this podcast, and she was talking about goal setting. And I’m a goal setter. It’s like, “Okay, take your goal.” We want to scale.”

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

For instance, below International Justice Mission centers those they serve as the hero of the story and invites donors to support them. Fall In Love With Understanding Your Donors Problems It is from that point that you will be able to craft and articulate compelling narratives that convert.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2014

Clearly articulating your priorities helps set expectations internally about what you are doing and keeps people focused on the right results. Define success metrics. You’ve got a list of priorities, so for each item on that list spell out the goal or metric to which you are working.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

part 1: Crafting Your Appeal To get started, it’s helpful to begin by splitting your plan up into the classic components: “what”, “why”, “how”, “when”, and “where” What – the goal The first step is to set a goal. Make sure your goals are within reach.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get started, it’s helpful to begin by splitting your plan up into the classic components: “what”, “why”, “how”, “when”, and “where” What – the goal. The first step is to set a goal. Do get your team on the same page and set a reach goal internally.

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