Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

According to a Microsoft study a few years ago, the average attention span for us ever-scattered humans is now shorter that a goldfish's; eight seconds. Paul Hellman answers these questions and gives you 100 fast and actionable tactics to make your eights seconds meaningful. Ask at least one thought-provoking question per conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to a 2015 Microsoft study, the average attention span for us ever-scattered humans is now shorter that a goldfish's; eight seconds. Paul Hellman answers these questions and gives you 100 fast and actionable tactics to make your eights seconds meaningful. Ask at least one thought-provoking question per conversation.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

People have limited time (and limited attention) for yet another email in their already overloaded inbox. They haven’t the answered WIIFM question. The truth is, people are asking themselves this question every time you ask them to join your email list. 6 ways to answers the WIIFM question: 1. What’s WIIFM?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

Ask yourself some very simple questions: Are my key points really what my attendees want to know? Looking at your entire presentation from their perspective will not only encourage you to cut any excess information, but also help you to design more compelling slides. Walk in their shoes! Is this information truly useful to them?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Fortunately there are a few questions you can ask yourself to help you craft a compelling video story. Use these questions to guide your storytelling strategies and then add your text, images, video clips, and even narration to Adobe Spark Video! Establish your goals up front so that each moment or slide ladders up to the goal.

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Achieve

MARCH 16, 2022

Offer sliding scale & open-ended questions. Ask key post-event survey questions. Furthermore, this can be a useful tool to combat digital fatigue by snagging the attention of recipients and re-engaging members in your online communications. Ask key post-event survey questions.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” And we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. . Is it okay, if I go ahead and kick things off officially? So good news.

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NetWits

JULY 16, 2012

Think about it like you would that area on your main website – You have two seconds to grab the attention your looking for. Pay Attention to Your Fans (a lot)! Make sure to check out the full presentation slides. It’s the thing that people will see first when they visit you on Facebook. You’ve just made one lucky fan very happy!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. Some things I recommend watching for: Don’t only pay attention to what people are doing on your site, but watch where traffic is coming from!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Reminds me of this slide from an old workshop I did on how to make technology trainings more interactive. That's how much we pay attention when we're subjected to a long one-way lecture. Notice how for the first ten minutes our attention rises, then plummets and doesn't regain its original height. blame the internet! :-).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Great question! This breakdown will help board members grasp where you’re experiencing growth and what efforts you can divert attention away from. It can be tempting to dedicate a couple of slides to discuss your wealth screening and other predictive modeling results. Include a final section that focuses on donor relations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

According to a 2015 Microsoft study, the average attention span for us ever-scattered humans is now shorter that a goldfish's; eight seconds. Paul Hellman answers these questions and gives you 100 fast and actionable tactics to make your eights seconds meaningful. Ask at least one thought-provoking question per conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 8, 2017

According to a 2015 Microsoft study, the average attention span for us ever-scattered humans is now shorter that a goldfish's; eight seconds. Paul Hellman answers these questions and gives you 100 fast and actionable tactics to make your eights seconds meaningful. Ask at least one thought-provoking question per conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The moderator, Marcelo Jamberio, organized a set of questions that other Marcelo and I responded to with slides and audience interaction. Some things have not changed: Time and attention are finite. It raises the question, though – Will the robots take over fundraising? The audience laughed. Content is king.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers back then, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. Try to avoid the content-driven model of an expert presenting for 50 minutes with a rushed Q/Q at the end.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Ask yourself these questions: How much time will each part of the program take? To accommodate latency issues and provide a shorter, tailored experience for virtual guests, Celebrity Waiters created two entirely separate slide decks for each audience. But those attending virtually may only be able to watch a screen for an hour or less.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

If you attend, be ready to pay attention and take good notes. There are also VIP tickets available for Radical Impact that come with all session recordings and session notes, custom slides and speaker content, a bonus marketing strategy from Community Boost, additional CFRE credits, and (most importantly) a free t-shirt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Kathy Brennan, Research and Evaluation Advisor, AARP gave primer about developmental evaluation – what it is, how it is applied, how it different from other methods, and why it is useful in evaluating complex systems projects. You can l isten to the video or view her slides here. Here are my notes and takeaways.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and will be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. If you put your question in there, it might have a little bit more visibility. So I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

If individual donors would rather not have attention drawn to them, let them know they can be framed as an anonymous matching partner. A pitch deck is a handout, slide presentation, or combination of materials that you’ll give a potential partner that makes the case for your ask. Make Your New Partner Pitch.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

How will you grab the attention of your donors when their inbox is already full and they barely have time to read what’s already there? How will you convey your message in as few words as possible so you make the most of every second you have their attention? Remember, you’ve only got a few seconds of their attention!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? Understanding what holds people’s attention or breaks it can make the difference between delivering a session that is valuable or a waste of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

It gave me space to give social media use some mindful attention. Debra has posed a very good question frame in the comments: Does the blog offer consistent insight and education about an area I want to learn about? I use knowledge trees, outlines, and focused thinking to identify what I need to learn and questions I need to ask.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Creating a website with your users at the center of your strategy will get their attention, keep their interest, and inspire more action. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. View the session recording or download the slides from this session to learn more. Audience Analysis. Create a Visual Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2011

Over the holidays, I finally visited Quora , a social learning site focused around asking and answering questions founded by an ex-Facebook employee. Quora has been around for a year and provides an independent question platform from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn that is similar to Yahoo! Thanks Geoff! ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. I think people are more likely to pay attention if they know that they might in the presentation. They brought along their chimes which are a great tool for getting people's attention when they are working in pairs or small groups. Ask a strategy question about something that was missing?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

This post recaps these sessions, provides my slides, and shares what I learned at the conference. Designing Questions Kathy Gustafon-Hilton coordinated a massive Pecha Kucha session, featuring 19 design professionals sharing 20 slides, 20 seconds apiece. While questions like: "Where were you last night?,"

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. I also encountered quite a few people asking very similar questions, or looking for the same resources. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. Images Drive Engagement But Choose Wisely: In age of information overload and so many connections, visual content is more attention grabbing.

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

The Big Question. Because of my dislike for modal dialogs (unless the message is critical), I looked for a way to catch the user’s attention without monopolizing it. Eventually I decided to have a small, unobtrusive box slide out from the page’s lower corner a few seconds after the it loaded, and make a similar appeal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

I like Rashmi's new slide show, especially the title. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. The rest of the slide show talks about four models for popularity. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. Viral sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Good instructional design and delivery engages people’s brains, eyes, ears, and bodies. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. The body break I used in the Arts Leaders training in the photograph above is called “Follow the Leader.”

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Host a pub-style quiz for your community and include some questions about your mission as a fun way to share your organization’s impact. Work with a local pool facility or use a bunch of blow-up pools and splash slides to provide some family fun to the community. Pub quiz Everyone loves a bit of trivia!

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Forum One

MAY 7, 2009

Pay particular attention to screen size, if the presenter's screen is very large, and participants' are small, the participants? As participants log in, have a slide or whiteboard that clearly shows the instructions for the audio. Invite follow-up questions and suggestions for next time. view might require significant scrolling.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Like other online content, the question comes to: How do I make money from it? People lack attention span and time. Give them access to the presentation slides and any whitepapers or case studies referenced in the webinar. However, they take the same amount of effort to organize as any corporate event.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2012

Think about it like you would that area on your main website – you have two seconds to grab the attention you want. Pay Attention to Your Fans (A Lot)! You can view the slides by clicking below or download them from SlideShare (look for the download button right above the slides when you get to SlideShare).

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