Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2017

He further explains that improvisation takes technique, training, practice, thoughtfulness and intelligence. is a technique that slows the brain down. This technique is one used effectively by the best improv professionals and Kulhan believes it's essential to succeeding in business. It facilitates conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health problem. So, where can you start to make a noticeable change in the way you work and life to become more healthy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used Richard Mayer’s research on multi-media learning based on understanding how the brain works and the ability to pay attention to guide the instructional design. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

We all know that with so much content out there, it is eating our brains and memory , relying more on “google it.” I’ve trained myself with the 18 minutes technique to avoid temptation of looking at friends’ dog photos that way while I am working.). It may sound counter-intuitive but we need to use technology.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2016

It was like a reboot for my brain, but I found it really difficult to do. But as everyone who owns a smartphone knows, the problem is that your mobile phone is no longer just for phone calls. Here are a few other techniques that don’t cost anything: 1. Set Your iPhone to 1995 Mode. It is called the “ NoPhone.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises. If you doing training, you have to be a little fearless piloting new techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

The process encourages stakeholders describe user profiles and what the site needs to meet their needs. Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2009

I've taught webinars and workshops on how to design and deliver effective training sessions and have written a few blog posts on training and presentation techniques. So, this is my excuse to devote some brain time to the topic. I use a variety of techniques to do this, but one of my favorites is to create a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have incorporated mini-breaks to walk in the middle of the day to help me think when I I am writing or thinking through a problem for a client. The benefits of walking to “clear your brain” or build relationships is not a new leadership technique. Also, if I’m on calls, I do them while walking around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Whatever the structure for your learning activities, they should use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly and identify your discussion questions. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual). When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2015

As my work as a trainer pivots more towards leadership development in a networked world, I’ve been doing more and more training on the topic of mindfulness at work techniques. If it is in your hand so you don’t miss an alert, then you have a problem. Do you sleep with your phone?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So she’s talking about what does it look like to bring folks together about STEM education and how do we talk to donors and our volunteers and our, you know, supporters of any kind about the work that we’re doing using different techniques that ground us. This is how might we see these techniques activated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2003

His "How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci" provides a rich source of techniques and inspiration on creative problem-solving techniques. This was one of seven books by experts in creative thinking and problem solving techniques that I scanned for ideas. When you frame a problem in words, you crystal your thoughts.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. There was a lot of synergy and points of reciprocity.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It can justify the work that your organization is doing, help others understand why it is critical, and offer exciting new ways to motivate others to help solve the problems your organization is working on. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

As a trainer or doing shoulder-to-shoulder coaching, I'd hear people complain about information overload, anxiety, etc and started to incorporate techniques for reducing it. . He also talked about changing his brain chemistry. I've been looking for ways to reduce techno stress. The new framing for this familiar issue is one of balance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Reading through 400+ session proposals made my brain hurt, but at the same time pumped me up. Attend this session and walk away with success stories and hands-on techniques that will change how you think about the creative process. Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. s surroundings as a form of problem-solving. each of various qualities. More here ). * Performance ???

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The problem is that trying to ''reduce'' stress is simply a waste of time. Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) The problem is that willpower is a very limited resource, and it’s easily exhausted.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

You could chalk it up to hereditary defects, but I suspect there are a lot more people out there with this same problem. This is a problem specific to games, which have a predefined, consistent set of rules. Addictive games allow us to wallow in skills we already have, to set our brains aside awhile and just do.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

Let's examine the case for each of Karen's techniques. One of the interesting problems Karen raises when it comes to putting internet-enabled computers in the museum is the question of whether visitors should be able to move beyond the Internet art to other websites. Where do you display those ratings? Alongside the exhibits?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

We have a highly efficient system for creating technology that solves problems and delivers value far beyond the confines of Northern California. But, we have only scratched the surface of what we could be doing to help solve the pressing social problems that confront us. Philanthropy? Bleeding hearts? What's your issue?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. Tell them how donating to your campaign will help the protagonist solve their problem. Simplify fundraising forms A common problem nonprofits face when they start raising money online is donation form abandonment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

When people read stories , their brains release chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin. Tell them how donating to your campaign will help the protagonist solve their problem. Simplify fundraising forms A common problem nonprofits face when they start raising money online is donation form abandonment.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Well, your database, I’ve said this, your database is like your brain, right? Like your fundraising brain. ” Might have a gift acceptance policy with something in it about pledges somewhere in my brain. No problem. I mean, do I have to stress why do we need this case for consistent, clean data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish? And, we have to understand and apply a little brain science. Balancing between the two is essential to completing tasks and coming up with creative solutions to problems. Take a guess.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

No problem. So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. And my promise to you is that you will have three or four actionable items, tools, ways of communicating that you can implement today, right now, no problem, to start getting more response from your efforts and getting those problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The 5 techniques I’m sharing below are all about DISRUPTING the stress response. You can think of these techniques as re-routing or snipping the circuit wire that’s fueling your stress. When we are talking about disruption techniques for a crisis situation, walking away is a big one. 3: Emotional Freedom Technique.

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