Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 22, 2024

Have some fun. After several months of recovery and spending time reflecting on my unhealthy relationship with work, I decided to enroll in a doctoral program at The University of Pennsylvania. They believe that stress will enhance their ability to grow and improve. Maintain your social connections. Establish and maintain boundaries.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For the 40 days leading up to my birthday I created a 4-part daily practice of moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. For the 40 days leading up to my birthday, I picked one thing to do each day that engaged my body, mind, heart and soul: moving, reflecting, playing and connecting. Do something purely for the fun of it?

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Reflection Fun Practice Journal 57

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2012

I'm starting the Have Fun, Do Good guest post series up again! From there, the fun begins! I reflect back what I’m hearing. My first guest blogger is the lovely Amy Kessel. Amy is a certified life coach devoted to helping women unfurl into their authentic selves. The interviews all contain the same five questions.

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Fun Interview Blogher Brain 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This is why it is important for leaders to encourage staff to reflect on their workflow processes and to encourage experimentation as described below. Experimentation should feel like playful, be fun and create a sense of wonder. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space).

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Adopt People Nonprofit Skills 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

Rituals are also 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. Name this event something fun such as, Taco Tuesdays or Pizza Fridays.

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Build Reflection Celebrate Nonprofit 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. 6. Creative Use of Energizers: Avoiding the 3:00 PM My Brain Is Full Slump: No matter how engaging your content or instructional technique is – people get tired towards the end of a whole day of training. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun!

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

There are also physical theories like brain-based learning and neuroscience. I came across a brain scan by Dr. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory. The sitting brain is really disengaged. People can’t be as focused on content when they been sitting longer than 20 minutes.

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Learning Theory Learning Brain Exercise 138

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises.

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Learning 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

This year I not only facilitated a conversation in the room, but integrated visual facilitation techniques to spark insights and capture learnings. Also, the element of fun, more interaction, and opportunities for sharing in smaller groups. You need to engage the whole brain in learning. Straight presentation kills all learning.

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NTC Conference Learning Experiment 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. Support a fun icebreake r. Help participants unpack a lot of potential topics to address.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

This reflects my own journey, and many also in attendance at the event, as my experience with DevOps has slowly matured alongside the emerging technology. saw audience members partnering up to conduct a team-building exercise built to skill up on development concepts in a fun, engaging manner. DevOps Sessions + Speakers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. We used a Harry Potter theme to give the session a fun feel. Adults tend to interpret information received in a training based on existing knowledge in their brains and then integrate it with previous experiences.

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Training Train Design Tech 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Instructional Design Instruction Instructional Training 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The conference was fun because I finally got a chance to meet Rosetta Thurman face-to-face! The first group wants to wrap their brains around it and gets overwhelmed quickly. This saved a lot of time during the report out on reflections and learning. We were part of the closing town meeting with the other session leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. We are working very closely with V.S. Monica Wahengbam.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

This book has been my companion lately – not only because it is so rich (check out the table of contents ) but it has given me a lot to think about and reflect on in terms of my own social media use – and how to be a lot of smarter about it. If you are going to purchase one book about using social media , this is the one to read.

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Integrate Practical Use of the Tools for Reflection, Network Weaving, Getting Ideas, Follow Up Work. organizational change, and technology.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 31, 2009

I’m pausing today to reflect on 2009 and I realize how blessed I’ve been this year. Being in Moscow in October and participating in a brain storming session for a Russian professional fundraising organization. Many wonderful things have happened and many incredible people have come into my life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 4, 2008

More of a brain dumper. as a result of my recent 29-Day Giving Challenge reflections , and CauseWired as part of my ongoing "professional development." If you connect with me on Facebook (let me know you are a Have Fun * Do Good reader), you can see my reading lists on GoodReads and Visual Bookshelf. I **love** to read.

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Meme Journal Flash Blogger 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

Okay, I admit the improvisation work is a lot of fun, but there is a lot of learning embedded in the reflection and debriefs. Bringing your brain to what you are doing. Not great as many of reflected. As we reflected on the exercise, David urged us to bring this simple technique to a staff meeting and see what happens.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

This much fun , Deborah Elizabeth Finn #15NTC = Amazing , Liza J. 15NTC Community NTC press'

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Nptech Austin NTC Netsquared 36

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

The most common signs of employee burnout we’ve seen are: Brain fog that causes forgetfulness of something a person has done before or randomly forgetting to complete tasks. To take it a step further, bring some fun into the workplace with an employee-driven break activity that happens at the same time each day.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. This’ll be a fun one. . That’s just a quick fun fact for you. Thanks for being here.

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People Community Video Podcast 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Social Web and Altruism Nick Booth, high fibre podcasting blog, points us to some fascinating brain research that has discovered the part of the brain responsible for altruism and he links it to why nonprofits should be using the social web to advance their missions. Deborah Finn was at both events and blogged about the latter here.

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Summary Conversation Wiki California 50

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. And when I reflected a little bit more on my aversion to using the phone, I realized a lot of my discomfort was actually related to my own limiting beliefs, both about myself, but also the beliefs I tended to project on to others, right? Take a minute to reflect.

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Raise Money Video Brain 98

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. And when I reflected a little bit more on my aversion to using the phone, I realized a lot of my discomfort was actually related to my own limiting beliefs, both about myself, but also the beliefs I tended to project on to others, right? Take a minute to reflect.

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Raise Money Video Brain 69

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

People are having fun with this experience, and who can blame them? We use these stories to try to understand objects and the people who own and use them, and to poke a little fun while we're at it. In the Odditoreum, you know you are being given a little space to have fun and poke at the rest of it all.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

The staff concentrated on museum operation and just did not have time, energy or brain space to seriously explore the challenges of a new permanent exhibition. The minutes of meetings held in 2006, 2007, and early 2008 reflect a hurried and rather superficial process. We had a lot of fun. Buying a train. Forbidden for adults.

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Museum Process Wiki Netherlands 20

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I recently read a reflection on Twitter called How To Use Twitter When You Follow Several Thousand People. I’m not the only one that is follow lots of interesting, valuable, fun people on Twitter - so are many of you! I’m not one for popularity and don’t view follower counts as a reflection of such.

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Twitter Delicious Time Management 129

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

So first is how we can reflect on the importance of diversity to our board’s work, specifically fundraising. It’s how my brain works. We had wine, it was actually fun and I think it built people’s confidence. It’s really fun. And so the report really challenges us to think about five things.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2016

I am not going to lie; crisis planning is not fun and can really hurt your brains as you start thinking about everything that can go wrong. These days are so much fun and there are so many wonderful things that happen that are way beyond just the dollars raised. Update: Reflections on May 3rd from Civicore.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible. Another fun and effective gamification technique appeals to our competitive nature. 1) Visual Storytelling. Consider this.

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Websites Fundraising Site Create 52

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said.

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Money Question Raise Video 108

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Secrets aren’t fun. What do you want to pick my brain about, how do y’all want to dig in a little bit more with me while we have our time together? And so their job is a reflection of that. Look at the comments. Schedule of hidden meetings. Definitely working on a hold on my power. I love that. Okay, y’all.

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Management Work Video Slides 91

Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here are some questions your team can ask to help you reflect on last year’s results: What was our goal last year, and did we meet it? Make it fun by providing your supporters with email templates, and then offer incentives like free swag or a raffle ticket for every 5 emails sent out! Who contributed to our campaign last year?

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Campaign Practice Giving Social Media 69

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The board’s mindset should reflect current business dynamics and its demographics should mirror the social and cultural landscape. There is a welcome post-pandemic trend to make demographic diversity a top priority and to think of the board as a brain trust that represents the members’ boldest ideas and vision. is a heavy lift.

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Associations Leadership Attitude Demographics 221

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. Steven: Well, this was fun. And just my brain just explodes five minutes into any talk of hers. Rachel: I have no idea. Thank you so much, Rachel.

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