Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Therefore, it’s imperative that as a business leader you have the essential meta-skill to navigate your business with a thorough understanding of your current situation, vision to see the future destination, and the ability to create the path to reach it,” explains Rich Horwath , author of the new book, Strategic.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. The Board should also be involved in planning for accountability and evaluation of the strategic plan once it’s implemented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. ” This books updates their experiences and provides easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Generative Social-Impact Network.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books. They are knowledgeable about resources and have the skills to manage projects, develop budgets, create timelines, and communicate progress to stakeholders. Our goal was to help association professionals navigate a new technological era or Industry 4.0.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

Read more of Kevin’s story in our Book “ Association 4.0: But scenarios are also a tool that can be used to evaluate longer-term initiatives. Cultivating continuous learning—Identifying what you don’t know and striving to fill the knowledge gaps. Those clients hadn’t gone live yet, and they needed our help.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. Most importantly, by the end of their book, the authors sum up their insights and provide a playbook that will help senior leaders let go of the command-and-control mindset that has hobbled their managers for so long.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support. 5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits. Effective communication â??

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It can also measure the success of related product sales such as e-book, video recordings, and exams. In addition to reviewing evaluations, you will have a much more accurate picture to support your future planning. This is real knowledge! “Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2023

The new book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. Most importantly, by the end of their book, the authors sum up their insights and provide a playbook that will help senior leaders let go of the command-and-control mindset that has hobbled their managers for so long.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Then, that page can include a link customers can use to book an appointment. Connect relevant software solutions to your website, such as your recurring billing software, booking tools, and CRM. These efforts will also boost employee retention, ensuring that your trained and knowledgeable staff members stay with you for the long haul.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

When chosen properly, impact metrics can accurately evaluate everything from individual program effectiveness to an organization’s overall performance. Evaluate and improve the effectiveness of programs and services. For example, do you want to increase participant knowledge or improve their economic conditions? Is it relevant?

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. Use this as an opportunity for knowledge transfer. This can establish a line of communication and lead to increased knowledge transfer.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Training and Workshops Your nonprofit can offer training programs and workshops where members enhance their skills and industry knowledge. Online Learning Platforms Offer an online learning platform that provides members with access to e-learning courses, skill-building resources, and e-books that aid in continuous learning and growth.

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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? The book offers several simple principles to incorporate: Movement is better than sitting. Source: Zazzle. How do you learn? Incorporating Movement.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 13, 2021

In this phase, we start by questioning and seeing what gives us pivotal knowledge. Success | In this phase, we evaluate. Many experts have written books on positioning and differentiation, but most of the principles can be boiled down to three strategies: Build on your strengths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. Facilitated listening is made up of a number of techniques described in more detail in the book. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

I was curious so I asked Mario Marino who wrote the book, Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes , about this issue. Now many funders have funded measurement via third-party evaluations and as a result think they’ve funded measurement. What is funder’s role to support good measurement? Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Marc shared his expert knowledge and here are some notes.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Additionally, nine in 10 respondents evaluated their organization’s use of technology as excellent/good across all areas. She oversees trends research reports on higher education and nonprofit topics as well as qualitative research and knowledge management. A self-described “full-stack human,” she is an avid meditator and yogi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It has been a pleasure to co-design this session with knowledgeable and smart colleagues who are as obsessed with instructional design and interactive exercises as I am. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training. 8 Must-Read Books on Training Design. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique. Remote Presenting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2017

understand and identify brand book elements. evaluate visual content using design standards and best practices. They are geared for nonprofit and library staff that have little or no knowledge of the amazing world of Adobe Creative Cloud. identify and apply standard processes for creating visually appealing and effective design.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2022

Here are a few concepts to build your knowledge base around automation and how it can be used in a nonprofit organization. With business process management, you evaluate repetitive processes throughout your organization and analyze how they can be improved, regardless of who created them and how long they’ve been used. Automation.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

To begin we should evaluate what a younger version of myself experienced in the learning process. Some people are able to see something once, and commit that piece of knowledge into their memory for the rest of their lives. Knowing this has aided me immensely in my quest for knowledge. Know they exist.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. A bigger portfolio of ideas is needed to evaluate the complex challenges in a post-pandemic world characterized by volatility and change.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

The collective knowledge of our Leadership Council makes the Classy Awards a distinction unlike any other. Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Data and Knowledge Centers. Kimberly Mitchell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation. This is evaluation.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2021

So take this knowledge and apply it to your own mission-driven omnichannel marketing strategy. Small-scale testing is what allows you to evaluate your ideas and choose the ones that benefit your users the most. Maybe you notice when they are good, maybe you only notice when the experience is bad. Want to learn more?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

Alexis de Tocqueville, a French early nineteenth century political thinker and scholar known for his book Democracy in America , often pondered questions of societal well-being, or social policy. The intermediary only pays the return on the investment for programs that work, based on the findings of independent evaluators.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

For example, Amazon’s Alexa along with the site’s personalized recommendations for movies, books, and music are provided by various AI models. In contrast, knowledge models are designed for housing and accurately analyzing information. As ChatGPT is quick to assert, it is a language model, not a knowledge model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Indeed, while there have been recent articles and case studies calling attention to this work and holding up the promise of “collective impact,” there is not yet significant knowledge on HOW to do this work. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks? Including some posts that have appeared on this blog.) How do networks learn?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Next, use your knowledge of current expenses like wages, rent, utilities, program costs, etc. In the book Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions For Financial Viability , authors Jeanne Bell and Steve Zimmerman offer a handy framework for approaching different revenue generation programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourced Haircut by Tracy the Astonishing The book I'm working on with Allison Fine includes a chapter on crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the technique of allowing many people to provide feedback, advice, knowledge, expertise or ideas for a project or create collective intelligence for an issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

She graciously did this interview with me to share more of her knowledge. What are some of the best books or blogs or other resources for learning more about measuring impact? If an organization does hire an evaluation specialist to help with measuring impact, what makes for a good relationship? How can they get started?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop).

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Applying the knowledge learned. the book Nonprofit Sustainability: Making Strategic Decisions for Financial Viability by Jeanne Bell, Jan Masaoka , and Steve Zimmerman. This book describes a step by step process for defining your business lines, establishing their relative impact, determining each line’s. Collecting the data.

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