Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

Being more introverted versus extroverted, the author's advice and teachings would have helped me during new jobs and after promotions, when relocating to new cities, when joining new clubs and organizations, and whenever I became a member of a new team. Learn and remember names. Ask questions. Seek out and start new relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

If you want to continue learning about AI for nonprofits, register for the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit , using the code VIRTUAL. The worry about a steep learning curve is more of a mindset change, from letting go of doing the work from zero to 100% and shifting to focusing on the 80-100%.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 12, 2023

R ead our blog to discover how PEAK Grantmaking empowered its member volunteers and strengthened its volunteer program. A nd learn volunteer empowerment strategies to try out at your organization! The peer groups also offer opportunities for member v olunteers to develop more skills and become leaders. Speaking opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade. If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2014

Through thousands of community-run events around the world, the Maker Party unites educators, organizations, and enthusiastic Internet users of all ages and skill levels. Technology shapes how we learn, how we connect, and how we communicate, but not everyone has the basic skills and information they need to harness the power of the web.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

I had an exciting and busy week of teaching public workshops, facilitating informal staff workshops, and meetings at the Embassy mostly on the topic of Networked Nonprofit, digital strategy, and leading on social media. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. They can handle the discomfort of learning curves and uncertainty.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

2023 Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2023 professional accomplishments: Generative AI for Nonprofits : Allison Fine and I published and launched our second book together, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in Age of Automation in 2022. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This post follows yesterday’s post about networked leadership skills. I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Help Them Learn More About Nonprofits : YouthGive is a site that helps young peole and their families easily donate to charities while learning more about the organizations. Learning To Give. [Sara received a thank you email within a half hour and was thrilled]. Parenting Tips To Encourage Your Child’s Philanthropy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Take the opportunity today to teach an employee something new. Nearly everyone likes to learn and is capable of tackling a new challenge. Teach your employee something that expands his (or her) current job description. Teach something that will help him to get promoted within your organization at a later date.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 23, 2024

Getting your CFRE certificate is a process through which you can learn even more critical skills to enhance your professional work. Passing the CFRE exam demonstrates you’ve done the work necessary and have the skills to develop relationships with donors, increase volunteer engagement, and lead a team of skilled fundraisers.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2024

I first learned of this concept from Professor Arthur C. Another example–noted in Gump’s book–is the Junior Achievement’s JA BizTown program, which teaches younger students about being citizens, workers, and consumers in society. The post Embracing Intrapreneurship: A Nonprofit Game Changer first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Today marks 2017’s Digital Learning Day, a day where we celebrate technology’s role in how we learn. While we use our technology skills for good, we don’t stop there. While we use our technology skills for good, we don’t stop there. Camp Blackbaud is our signature program highlighting skills-based volunteerism.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I love Marianne''s Elliott''s e-news where she shares what she''s been "learning, reading, writing and listening to," so I''m doing my own version. I learned a lot about my strengths and challenges as a leader, and gained a bevy of tools to help me be a better one. The last seven weeks (since I last posted) have been a whirlwind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Recently, a nonprofit professional said to me, “I don’t have time to learn anything new because I have too much work to do.” Yet, we know that learning continuously in a complex world is critical because otherwise our skills are quickly outdated. That’s the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2018 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman in 2016. This past year, I found myself writing less on this blog. Year in Review. So stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. ” Well, 2 out of 3 is not bad! All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here are some ways you can find and get in front of new funders: Attend a “ Meet the Funders ” panel in your community or ask to take a local funder out to coffee to learn more about their organization and funding priorities. Practicing your public speaking by volunteering to teach a workshop or speak on a panel.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Whether you’re looking to brush up on best practices for annual appeals, boost your fundraising game on social media this GivingTuesday , or build expert storytelling skills to win over supporters this giving season and beyond, we’ve got you covered with this list of 12 free nonprofit books. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? Flickr Photo by Minarae. What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. I believe in diving in, staying focused, and getting the job done, all while learning and growing in a position. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. When you step in the door, you come prepackaged with skills you can share. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Aiming to learn more about what it offers and hear the real experience of a fellow. . Feeling like an island, burned by management, with no growth opportunities to lean into any of my previous passions or skills (did I mention work-life balance is nonexistent when working two jobs to get by?) What I Learned from the RiseUp Fellowship.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

If you focus on developing these skills, they will not only lead to success in your career, but in life. I believe in diving in, staying focused, and getting the job done, all while learning and growing in a position. I deeply emphasize the importance of grit, charisma, perseverance, and emotional agility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Year in Review Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2021 professional accomplishments: NTEN Lifetime Achievement Award : I was honored and very surprised to be awarded the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Lifetime Achievement Award. ” Well, 2 out of 3 is not bad! All done remotely from home as I have yet to get back on airplane.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

How do you learn? 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? The brain science literature suggests that learners understand and remember more when they talk about what they are learning.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Dreamforce is Salesforce’s pinnacle event that unites Trailblazers from all over the globe for three days of learning, networking, philanthropy, and fun. Trailblazers are invited to sharpen their skills with 1,000+ sessions and workshops. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: 7 Ways to Get Ready for End-Of-Year Giving Today.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Role of Coaching in your Learning and Development Program. As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? As Learning and Development professionals it is time to ask ourselves… What does this mean to our industry? The comparisons do not just end there.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

In just thirty minutes, we will identify the “how” and the “why” questions your data is asking, find out how your program data can help you showcase your impact, and teach you how technology can help you visualize that impact. You May Also Enjoy: Blog: Introducing Cloud for Good Campaign Services.

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