Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Originally published in December 2016: After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. Gives you specific techniques and tactics. James Dallas. The timing of the process. When the next update will be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

He references one of the thought leaders of the sticky notes as a collaboration tools, Tim Brown , Author and CEO of the design and innovation company Ideo,who recommends the Post-it Note as a perfect tool for brainstorming.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 16, 2017

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. James Dallas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 6, 2017

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. James Dallas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Earlier this month I was in Boston for the annual convention for Americans for the Arts where I facilitated a leadership development pre-conference workshop, “Impact without Burnout: Resilient Arts Leaders from the Inside/Out.” We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. And, in this book, he helps you increase your personal visionary capacity for your personal leadership whether or not you are hierarchically in a senior position.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2015

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. And, in this book, he helps you increase your personal visionary capacity for your personal leadership whether or not you are hierarchically in a senior position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

While geared for journalists and newsrooms, there is a lot here that is useful for nonprofits – and many of the same topics we address in our book. What techniques do you use to keep focused and productive? Today’s session was on information overload and single tasking.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

If you’re in the Bay Area and didn’t make it to our launch party at TechSoup , there’s a book party in the East Bay on Friday, July 23rd. The staff of Donordigital Bay Area are throwing a #netnon book party. I’ve been enjoying the photos of friends and colleagues with the book popping up on my Facebook Page.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book : This is the OG image prompt library and guide on designing great prompts. ArtHub AI Library : A collection of AI-generated art prompts and a platform for artists to showcase their AI-generated artwork. They also respond to prompts differently and are capable of image dimensions beyond a square output.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 18, 2019

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. And, in this book, he helps you increase your personal visionary capacity for your personal leadership whether or not you are hierarchically in a senior position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. The music he listened to on the radio "got its power" from studio techniques. Are the products created via such a process of worse, better, or equivalent quality as traditional art products? It''s complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. This helped make the meeting more interactive and also helped participants think about what techniques they wanted to try after the session. Why not just end early?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

"It is a driving passion of mine to get people to understand that improv skills can be effectively translated into the business world with powerful results," says Bob Kulhan , veteran improv performer, university professor, and author of the fascinating new book, Getting To "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv. and "Yes, but." "Yes,

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I talked with Tiffany, and also with Hazel Markus and Alanna Connor, Stanford social psychologists who recently co-authored a pretty fascinating pop-science book about understanding cultural difference. The book of the same title that he edited is rocking my world, both as a museum professional who cares about inclusion and as a new mother.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art classrooms. This workshop will share strategies and techniques for changing your nonprofits culture to be more agile, training other staff to be social to scale, and managing your nonprofit’s c-suite and board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. The Art of Good Closers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

I’ve been a content curator for many years , using the techniques to help me develop curriculum materials for workshops and blog posts – as a form of professional development. One of the points we emphasized was that the art and craft of content curation was not mindless, click sharing of content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2015

As part of the research for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , with Aliza Sherman, I’m not just reading, but actually testing out some of the techniques suggested for mindfulness. One of the most popular: coloring books. Coloring Books. ArtMattersNJ has used coloring books as conference schwag.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 14, 2016

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary. And, in this book, he helps you increase your personal visionary capacity for your personal leadership whether or not you are hierarchically in a senior position.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. I also love sharing techniques and tips with other trainers and often do “train the trainers” sessions as part of my practice. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. Techniques for More Engagement. Facebook Book For Your Desk. Finally, Mari Smith has co-authored a book, “ Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day &# – if you want one book about Facebook best practices that combines tactical and strategic – this is it!

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The bonus is that it mashes up a variety of spammer techniques, starting with a list of 3-letter words running from "act" to "dry". All you need to know before experiencing Tombigbee River fabulous San Francisconess of Ike''s is this: Bring a jacket, bring a friend (or a book), and bring your appetite and you''ll be one happy sandwich eater.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. This chapter appears midway through the book. To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room.

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Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Art, artifacts, books, and manuscripts are all documents of human innovation, thinking, and activity. Within an increasingly complex digital landscape, particularly in light of the global pandemic, institutions rely on content strategists to use curatorial techniques and principles to bring their collections to virtual audiences.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The initial wave of generative-AI examples in the art, music, and written composition spaces has generated a lot of interest within the technology sector. Use it once, though, and you’ll discover the need for improved prompt techniques to get the responses you want. ” There’s a helpful example in her book Thinking in Bets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis. My Theme for the Year: Happy, Healthy.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

In other words, when you enter a prompt, ChatGPT scours vast amounts of text data online (such as books, websites, articles, etc.) For a human, learning the art of writing subject lines might take years of trial and error. But ChatGPT’s deep learning techniques allow it to create optimized subject lines for any email.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me. Read more online and buy your own copy today. And that’s just getting in the door. What makes teenagers such a tough crowd?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. She noted, "In the 60's, it was about answering the question "What is black art?" Could you write a story?

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