Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns his rookie smarts and is still able to retain his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Wondering if you are ready for a new challenge?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 23, 2015

And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns his rookie smarts and is still able to retain his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Wondering if you are ready for a new challenge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Skills in this area I want to deepen are reflection and creativity.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Plus, there are five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. Edited by Edward T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Once everyone signs up for the platform and downloads the app, the real challenge begins: integrating the tool into your daily workflow. Adopting a new work practice is challenging, especially if the whole team needs to embrace the change. I can do it even when my brain feels fried. Teach yourself to be more productive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy. Get together staff for half hour or 60 minutes, and do a “brain dump” of everything they know about their audience.

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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? Now that could be hard reading, but Sharon Bowman’s “ Using Brain Science To Make Science Stick ” has been a terrific resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

.” This week, the Poynter Institute Katie Hawkins-Gaar and Ren LaForme joined forces to host a series called #40 Better Hours , a project to improve newsroom culture by looking at things that cause stress like workflow and communication and teaching journalist skills to combat information overload, part of a technology wellness routine.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

And, she teaches us how to reclaim and cultivate the curious, flexible and youthful mindset called "rookie smarts." Something magical happens when a skilled veteran successfully re-learns his rookie smarts and is still able to retain his veteran acumen," explains Wiseman. Wondering if you are ready for a new challenge?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Plus, there's five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. Edited by Edward T.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2016

What’s even cooler is how the value jumps higher when volunteers give their professional skills in law, finance, marketing, operations, you name it. Here are 3 reasons why it’s time to volunteer: Your investment of professional skill can make a lasting impact on a nonprofit’s sustainability. Giving your skills makes you better.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Plus, there''s five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 2, 2015

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Plus, there''s five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 20, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Plus, there''s five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. Plus, there''s five other lessons McBean teaches in the book. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Also, by asking more questions you’ll help break down barriers, resolve challenges, encourage collaboration, and imagine new ways of doing things. The two types may find themselves drawn to or challenged by different aspects of The Ask Approach™. For others, the most challenging strategy might be zip your lip.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories. What is a read-a-thon fundraiser? Reading boasts a wide range of benefits for both children and adults alike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging. He recommends reading The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr to better understand the impact of chronic information overload, followed by his best advice about being purposeful with your attention online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. Evans : It can add an extra layer of challenge, but traveling doesn’t have to be the deal breaker we often make it out to be. to create the resiliency you need to combat stress.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

These days, it's not just about improving your reflexes; experts have expanded the concept of "valuable" play to include MMOs like World of Warcraft (which teach teamwork, social leadership, and may help you get a job ), and many corporations are turning to game companies to develop educational games for training and recruiting.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Here is one of the complete drafts it generated for our example… What writing models/skills does Fundwriter.ai is the growing library of writing models(skills) specific to nonprofits and fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

" In the book, he makes an argument for why playing digital games is good for their brains. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure. Games teach this. To do teach it - the games stop being games.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So Maggie approaches this challenge so differently. She creates a five-minute personal selfie video talking about her idea and the challenge and sends it out without second thought to 20 donors who she knows are going to be excited. Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So Maggie approaches this challenge so differently. She creates a five-minute personal selfie video talking about her idea and the challenge and sends it out without second thought to 20 donors who she knows are going to be excited. Everything that I’m going to be teaching you today comes straight from this formula.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Note from Beth: As a trainer and someone who teachers other trainers, I’ve been obsessed with improving my facilitation skills and written a lot about it on this blog. Brain science and the science of learning are dynamic fields with constant advances being made. What are their challenges and barriers?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This April our 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge offers resources to sharpen your skills and an opportunity to enter your short video or five-image slide show by April 30 to win awesome prizes! When we launched the annual challenge four years ago, nonprofits and libraries were just picking up on the power of digital stories.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

But the governor became a friend and then I took my skills to the nonprofit sector, and I’ve been executive director, development director, board member, you name it. I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . Been a part of our sector for a long time. I’ve made a ton of mistakes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

According to the Washington Post article, If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Only Be Natural , another study found that when, "volunteers placed the interests of others before their own, the generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex. I'm a big fan of Kiva too. A Candy-Colored Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? Photo by BirgerKing. Take a guess.

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