Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. Fly-bys don’t count.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. Fly-bys don’t count.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 7, 2023

Organizations that treat culture like an impromptu party will see their “guests” leave early. Culture revolves around personalities and a positive environment depends on understanding the needs of individual players and their interaction as a team. But we realize that building culture isn’t a project with a finish line.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

And, then in Part 2, he digs into how to cultivate a workaround attitude and mindset, including how to reflect on the ways you typically see, judge, and approach obstacles. “I Paulo Savaget Today, the author shares these additional insights with us: Question: What is a workaround? Question : When might you need a workaround?

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. We’re bringing that honest conversation right to you with some new voices with a passion for nonprofit culture and employee wellness. . How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. Fly-bys don’t count.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Question : Can work ethic be taught? Van Gorder: I believe a work ethic is cultural – both from an individual and corporate perspective. Fly-bys don’t count.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. In many cases, the slow to change eventually adopt or they no longer remain relevant to their constituents, donors, or loose their edge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. That they have a “Do good where ever attitude.” The New Social Economy. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work. They want to combine both.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2016

While Americans are taking fewer vacations days, it raises the questions as to whether fewer vacation days really boosts productivity? The article suggests that we reflect on this data point and ask two questions, “Do you want to work for free? “Do you use all your vacation time?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

As the report points out, movement organizers are grappling with big questions. What roles do different organizations play? The report identifies metrics to measure progress around this these questions – it asks and answers – “What exactly are the right metrics for today? What is needed to achieve it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

I'm sort of foggy on all the questions - due to my tired state, but the first set of opinion statements was "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for practical reasons" and "Nonprofits should adopt open source software for philosophical reasons. I was wrong -- this attitude isn't necessarily generational.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

This post brings together fundraising experts from across the industry to share 12 super simple (but effective) fundraising ideas for boosting donor engagement, loyalty, and retention based on answering one simple question, “ what’s the key to an effective donor retention strategy? Claire Axelrad , CFRE, Clairification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. Your cultural outlet is art galleries and symphonies. The whole 'we know how to spend your money better than you' attitude is condescending and false."

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

Talk to each other, introduce yourself in the chat if you haven’t already because we will save some time for some Q&A once we kind of get through our scripted questions. Sarah, I’m going to start with you in the first question. So let me ask a follow-up question. Same question as I asked Sarah.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

Cultural icons serve many important purposes, but these, I have reluctantly begun to realize, may be quite different from, and perhaps mutually exclusive with, museums focused on community well-being. And that gets back to my friend’s question: Do museums really want this? What does this “not sufficient by itself’ bit mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. It was an amazing experience and so delighted that I’m doing a FREE webinar next week to share some reflections on designing and delivering an effective nonprofit training. Sometimes we feel that asking a question makes us look stupid.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

Juneteenth, also known as Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, and Black Independence Day, is celebrated on June 19th, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, and often also a celebration of African-American culture. The holiday has been celebrated since 1865 and was officially made a federal holiday in 2021.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). As Elsa Bailey asked in the chat: "Don't cultural attitudes toward the definitions/descriptions of happiness come into play here? This long reflection on external motivation relates directly to the core mission of museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. 1: Create a Facebook culture inside your organization. Ask different kinds of questions.

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Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Send in your questions and comments, we love for these sessions to be interactive. So, as Steven said, if you have any questions, put them in the Q&A box. You can put them in the chat box as well, but we prefer Q&A, I prefer Q&A because it’s easier to track your questions. There is a chat box and a Q&A box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2012

I kicked it off with a provactive question, “Is innovation like porn – we know it when we see it?” (a nod to the Mapplethorpe/NEA controversy from the 1990′s). As Rally noted on its blog , “Beth Kanter kicked off Day #3 of NTC with a session characteristically full of zingers and tweetable one-liners. Mary Joyce.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? I was struck recently by the description of players in an alternate reality game, SF0 , in which people go on cultural “missions” around the Bay Area. Good question.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits , we’re reminded that a key step to improvement is having an accurate retrospective view. Why Designing Your Nonprofit Culture is Do or Die is about sharing values, a defined mission and vision, and valuing your people. Connections.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. In this model, rather than trying to answer a set of broad questions, you look at the spectrum of viable conditions and extrapolate useful strategies from those. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think about the future.

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