Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 1, 2019

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

MARCH 27, 2021

Liz Wiseman 's book, Rookie Smarts , is all about living and working perpetually on a learning curve. And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." You've stopped learning something new every day. You are consistently getting positive feedback.

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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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TechImpact

MAY 29, 2014

Unless you’re rewriting your home page copy, tagline, and call-to-action on a daily basis your website needs a blog. Here are 4 reasons your nonprofit needs a focused content marketing blog sooner rather than later. By adding a blog, your nonprofit’s website is constantly changing. Websites teach, viewers are not listening.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2013

The design was intended to create an opportunity for cross-generational learning, peer sharing, and lots of interaction and it was exciting to work with faculty members to design the lesson plan. I designed and facilitated a peer learning workshop at SXSW last week.

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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

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

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. That’s why we’re supporting this global effort to teach web literacy through hands-on learning and making with the Maker Party. Taking part in a Maker Party?

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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

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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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. But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. How do you make your trainings or meeting more fun that can lead to more learning?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Each year at this time, I reflect on the valuable lessons my father taught me that have served me well in business and in life - including lessons I learned when I didn't at the time necessarily realize I was learning from him. He loved to learn. He loved even more to teach. He lived to help other people learn.

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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

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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Chances are he has already figured this out.

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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

APRIL 8, 2015

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. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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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

JULY 19, 2017

I learned so much about the digital challenges facing Asian NGOs, how these are similar or different from NGOs in other regions, met and connect with amazing people, and was inspired by the speakers I heard and the workshops I took for my own learning. As a trainer, one way to learn is to observe and take process notes.

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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! Empower your volunteers by offering the chance for members to teach in your learning program or speak at your annual conference.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do. In addition to this, I was thinking about all the ways I could make things better and easier for teachers during what was about to be the hardest teaching year of their lives.

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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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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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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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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 15, 2024

Learn how the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) uses innovative technology to boost their organization’s reputation by supporting member services and products. Read our blog to discover three ways ASSH increased trust in their organization. The Nimble AMS team is highly supportive.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2022 professional accomplishments: The Smart Nonprofit : Allison Fine and I published and launched our second book together, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in Age of Automation. I continue to serve on the advisory board of Leadership Learning Community and Wake.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The Outer Islands Teaching and Learning Collaborative : "ast spring, collaboration among the schools was formalized with two grants to support ongoing efforts.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Chances are he has already figured this out.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Baseball and your Learning Organization. As an admitted Cleveland Indians fan and gracious World Series loser, I thought long and hard about how I could somehow link America’s Pastime to this unique blog. So you may be asking yourself where is the linkage to learning programs? Measuring Learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 14, 2019

The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake. If he knows that mistakes happen in the course of doing business and that one learns from making mistakes, you will have a more productive employee. Chances are he has already figured this out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Say your organization stopped using “special education” and uses “specialized learning” instead to decrease the stigma around special education. According to SEMrush, 260 people a month searched specialized learning and 12,100 searched special education. Once they find you and are engaged, you can teach them your language.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2017

households with at least one dog according to ASPCA, many of us don't have to go far to learn about leadership. That's because, according to co-authors Krissi and Dan Barr , dogs can teach humans a lot about leadership. Question : What can business leaders learn from dogs’ natural sense of curiosity? Because 44 percent of U.S.

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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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