Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania.

Build 93

Build Pennsylvania Environment Skills 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

Poll 50

Poll Technique Group Tools 50

Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner.

Chicago 59

Chicago Knowledge Practice Attitude 59

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 9, 2012

I love getting to know them personally while hosting them in our office, and their attitudes remind me that my job is a privilege. Bush's "Reflections of a Nonprofit Heart". Volunteers walk in the door exuding that bushy-tailed enthusiasm I had as an intern. They’re sacrificial, hard-working, and grateful for the chance to serve.

Job 83

Job Attitude Exercise Volunteer 83

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). The energizer can be connected to the content or just a movement exercise or stretch. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

Instructional Design 111

Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

It made me think of the metaphor of the Dance Floor and the Balcony a phrase and exercise that I learned from a session that Eric Eugene Kim facilitated. . Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

Social Media 95

Social Media Training Train Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In the morning, we did a team building exercise to better understand the network core, the in-country teams from Yemen, Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, and Jordan. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? Network Mapping Exercise.

Network 99

Network Build Exercise Map 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

We began the session by filing out of the conference room to the parking lot outside for an interactive exercise called " The Dance Floor and the Balcony." The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. Repeat the exercise, this time with the goal of moving one person to the opposite side of the room.

Collaboration 93

Collaboration Learning Exercise Online 93

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. They could even complete a ratings-based assessment before and after learning a topic, to test how their opinions, attitudes, or mindsets surrounding the topic changed. Matching, Labeling, and Sorting.

eLearning 69

eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. The morning ritual is a chance for all to reflect on the organization’s results and be inspired. To be effective, this attitude needs to be reversed.

Culture 47

Culture Philanthropy Marketing Create 47

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. The whole 'we know how to spend your money better than you' attitude is condescending and false." Lots of negative and ambivalent reaction to this case statement.

Detroit 49

Detroit Arts Public Support 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" I started the Museum 2.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

Museum 20

Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

If people don’t know you, there’s no real, even my general attitude to life, trust people, it’s always worked out well, with some few exceptions, it’s still worth it. . So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said.

Money 108

Money Question Raise Video 108

Bloomerang

JULY 2, 2021

Consider this when you reflect back on what your nonprofit has been through and where you’re going. It was interesting because one of the exercises that I have people do is I will have them do their own Zoom video, as if they’re making the virtual ask. So let’s see what the focus was in 2019.

Virtual 117

Virtual Communication Video Newsletter 117

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The club members believe in the health benefits of laughter, and they engage socially in several laughter exercises: laughing at each other, laughing with tongues sticking out, laughing while shaking hands, and so on. The best presenter I’ve seen do this is Frank Warren, instigator of the PostSecret project.

Program 20

Program People Museum Lecture 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

They weren’t similar in temperament or attitude. Later, as I was sending my findings to a colleague, I told them the exercise took me 1 hour. Reflecting on the time a task takes and if that is the right amount of time can appreciably improve the way you work and therefore how you feel about work. Some people can just write.

Work 38

Work Time Museum Analysis 38

Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2017

In collaboration with research firm, the National Research Group , we set out to break down the giving landscape across the American population, reflecting on differences amongst political groups, generations and other contributing factors that drive donors to act. Changes are happening…we need to be aware.

Change 36

Change Time Advocacy Storyboard 36

Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. We focus on what is required to build a more just society—in matters of race, health, the environment, and the economy. I’m Amy Costello.

System 75

System Tech Government Classes 75