Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings. People tolerate unproductive meetings because they become part of the culture—no agenda, starting late, people multitasking, and nothing decided. Horwath : Killing meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging. What is personal productivity? Personal Productivity Mindsets. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. Some workplace cultures in nonprofits encourage this approach. Flickr Photo by udithawix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Last week I presented a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference called “ Activating A Culture of Resilience for Sustainable Impact ,” with fellow NTEN board members, Ananda Leeke & Meico Whitlock as well as Carrie Rice. I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Now that we have close to two-years of Zoom meetings under our belts, we are discovering that people are exhausted from video conference meetings – and engagement (and productivity) may be plummeting. Without the visual breaks we need to refocus, our brains grow fatigued.”. And it may have implications for our health. “In

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. Internalizing and externalizing an organization-wide culture of philanthropy. Arts and culture. Mastering relevant content marketing. In this post, I’ll explore the third strategy. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2017

Earlier this week, I was honored to do a webinar for Soapbox Engage about self-care and bringing a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace based on The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. Is everyone suffering from “foggy brain” caused by too much sitting down meetings?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? Sound familiar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. Scarcity captures the mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. Organizational Culture of Balance Is Important. Sacca, Horowitz, and Pass talked about the importance of creating an organizational culture that honors balance. She reaching for her blackberry facilitated "hyperthinking" with others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Some Internet People say some that sparks something in your brain. Cultural institutions aren’t always the best at this—we are often all in or all out. It’s hard to ding any cultural institution for not preparing for a future so few of us saw coming, but there’s always been a need to pivot when unexpected things happen.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. Ensure the products you sell are high quality by ordering several for yourself before marketing the opportunity to your supporters. For example, the theme could be 80s pop culture or the holiday season.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And we have less donors than we’ve had before but the sizes of the gifts from those donors have been increasing, which is why giving overall has still not varied from about 2% of gross domestic product for as long as they’ve been measuring this since World War 2. But it’s a little bit like building a culture of philanthropy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2022

Generosity is wired into our brains. 2006 study by Jorge Moll, Jordan Grafman and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health : After MRI brain scanning of volunteers as they were asked to think about a scenario involving either donating a sum of money to charity or keeping it for themselves, researchers found giving won out.

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