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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.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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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

MARCH 28, 2023

Although the firm that I worked for was one of the leading providers of association software, when the company saw the investment in resources and time that was needed to switch to the new technology, they decided to stop production. “On Read more of Kevin’s story in our Book “ Association 4.0: Necessity is the mother of invention.

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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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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This might mean educational resources, research reports, and industry insights that non-members cannot access. For professional associations, these resources can help your members stay informed and up-to-date in their field. Let’s get at it! Webinars are fairly easy to put on and can be viewed by your members no matter where they are.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me. Check out some of my favorite resources in the nonprofit space. I''d love to hear about them.'

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. This includes: 1. Facilitated Listening Skills.

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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. Plan for the future and make decisions about resource allocation. What Are Common Nonprofit Impact Metrics?

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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

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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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. I thought I’d take this opportunity to organize some of those posts into a resource list. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training.

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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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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It means that where your organization puts its time, energy, and resources is a direct expression of the things it values. Next, use your knowledge of current expenses like wages, rent, utilities, program costs, etc. What does that mean? to project what your costs will be for the coming year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. .” ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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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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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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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2022

Today’s donors want to know their resources are making an impact. Here are a few concepts to build your knowledge base around automation and how it can be used in a nonprofit organization. Instead of waiting for statements at month-end and manually reconciling them line-by-line, you can run reports weekly and close the books faster.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

A board that is a rubber stamp drains the organization’s time and resources. 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. books , the need for unique voices in the boardroom was a recurrent topic.

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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. Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. If you want to go for extra credit, you can also do sector benchmarking with resources like B Analytics and CSR HUB.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2021

So take this knowledge and apply it to your own mission-driven omnichannel marketing strategy. Implementing a new omnichannel marketing strategy or improving your current one requires an investment of time and resources. Small-scale testing is what allows you to evaluate your ideas and choose the ones that benefit your users the most.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. We have to reinvet what we have been doing because we have to do more with at least the same resources if not less. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning? So how do you do that?

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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. Development.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Manager of Knowledge Resources, Research and Academic Affairs, ASU Lodestar Center. The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1. It's no surprise when employees perceive job performance evaluations as unfair. Stephanie La Loggia, M.A.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

For example, the report highlights the growing importance of digital fundraising, so investing more resources in online campaigns and social media outreach would be a smart move. See my book, Fundraising 401 , Chapter 10, “Finance & Fundraising Are Not in Opposition.”) Determine the capacity to give of your donors and funders.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

In this resource-strapped environment, it's arguable that not considering open source options seriously when evaluating your software toolbox is a disservice to your organization, board, constituents, and clients. . Assess and strengthen your own knowledge and the technical resources of your organization. Current Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2015

This post goes into more detail and provides some resources on planning and implementing an employee champion program. Many nonprofits have limited capacity and staff resources when it comes to implementing marketing and communications strategy, especially social media. Resources. They have a robust resource section.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Management guru Jim Collins has stated nonprofits are "in desperate need of greater discipline - disciplined planning, disciplined people, disciplined governance, disciplined allocation of resources.". Applying the knowledge learned. A thorough collaborative inquiry process will follow a process which includes: Framing the issue.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, members who buy a certain book also take a specific course related to the book which leads to them getting a certification. You should assess what resources you have to produce each product. With knowledge that certain products are more valuable, you can prioritize limited resources to work on those.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

And, in looking over the evaluations and reviews , I think the participants did too. Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel is a must read for anyone presenting at conferences or planning trainings in age of social media. For the intermediate users, I put them to work sharing their knowledge. Extending the learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. It will interesting to if there is reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This was fairly early in the Foundation’s exploration of networks and Madeleine came in to discuss her approach to evaluating networks. Fast forward five years, Madeleine has published a new guide on evaluating networks. A Guide to Evaluating Networks – Guest Post By Madeleine Taylor. Real network examples.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. We have to reinvent what we have been doing because we have to do more with at least the same resources if not less. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning? So how do you do that?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

It’s that there is a lack of really good support – responsive, empowering, educational, integrative, and knowledgeable about, and invested in, the sector. There are many challenges – how do you teach self-reflection and self-evaluation? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. " Davenport's book was published almost two years ago and is reflection on blogging circa 2004-2005.

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