Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Your posts on Birthday Wishes definitely helped give us the courage & a blueprint to dive in, but it is only one rung on the ladder of engagement. . They must ask "Have we provided enough value, and demonstrated enough proof behind our model or concept to ask people to give?". Tags: movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Creating a sustainable funding source takes years, so work hard to keep your overhead as low as possible while you’re building your donor list.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." Question : Why is capturing attention and building trust so important today versus a decade ago?

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits? A: Definitely. You may even consider bringing in an external partner to discuss wellbeing techniques. A: Provide people with a space to build physical and mental health. Expert Advice to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit.

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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. 4. Design To Build A Community of Practice. Program Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. One thing we’re trying to do is model abundant behavior. Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. We launched the Zoetica Salon this week.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Last month brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." Question : Why is capturing attention and building trust so important today versus a decade ago?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Because, Thursday, September 8 brings the official release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." And I think that’s definitely true. This is a great week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Schein calls “ Humble Inquiry ” – the art of asking questions based on curiosity and building trust. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways. These arrangements are starting-off points; they don’t originate from any definitive recording or performance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

There was definitely a theme among the women. Food for me is something that impacts all of our lives, and it was a place where I could focus the most of my energy and really impact community, environment, health, soil, air, social equity issues, community building, and how we do, or do not interact with each other.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Begin 2014 with a new plan that includes an ongoing communication stream with your top prospects, including a light sprinkling of annual solicitations complemented by informative materials that build engagement with your mission. Musing #3: BE THE DONOR, A PHILANTHROPIC VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE!

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A quick glance makes it clear that the not-entirely-standard definitions of the diseases listed, and the data collection process implied (often a matter of guesswork and intuition), may introduce some uncertainty into the reliability of the data that results. OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Staff members led us in reframing our language to talk about the museum as transforming from a “traditional model to a 21 st century model” instead of failing and then succeeding. While I still think of it that way, at the MAH, we’re seeing some of the surprising effects of lots of participatory techniques all under one roof.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

Leaders can leverage the hybrid meeting model to change this by looking around the table and making sure all voices are seen and heard, whether participating on-screen or in-person. 50-50 Time Split: This model allows staff to work from home half the time. Hybrid Work Model. Hybrid Handouts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Definitions Of Key Business Terms We talk about, read about and hear about "customers," "mission," and "customer value" all the time and perhaps sometimes we struggle with fully understanding the best definition of those terms. I like Peter F. Says what, in the end, you want to be remembered for.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Both buildings are located within whispering distance of one another at the heart of the city-scattered campus. Display techniques: It’s risky to set up an art museum in the curio-cabinet style of the Nature Lab. I don't think that all art museums need to be like this model I suggest. Both are free for students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. Systems Theory allows you to map the complexity and nuance that is necessary to build adaptive organizations and innovative interventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

What is your (simple) definition of social marketing? Social marketing is actually the use of commercial marketing techniques to promote behaviors that will bring about positive health or social change ??? What makes a successful social marketer? Unfortunately, the term ???social social marketing,???

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. What would the difference of these definitions be? Hes the author of three best-selling books, including Re-engage and The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. We believe that, like every consumer movement, it is going to be the first-mover companies and the early brands that build a distribution system. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. It doesn't work that way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010 Lets Build A List Lets build a list of the most important attributes of a good leader, and lets only use one word (or a hyphenated word) at a time to describe each attribute. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books? GEN X Employees -- Like having their professionalism and growing knowledge valued.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. Heres some information about the research supporting the link between sports and leadership, along with some first-hand testimonials.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010 Build A Strong Team. Youll learn as a manager how to build a strong team. ► August (20) ► July (5) ► June (8) ▼ May (4) Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Use This eBook To Improve Your Communication Build A Strong Team. Be An Effective Team Member.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Jan 13 - 15.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so we offer this as an opportunity for you to build community, for you to build your career and your personal development skills and develop financial fortitude so that you can actually thrive in the work that you have been called to do. Definitely working on a hold on my power. So it’s not an either/or. I love that.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

This is where politicians need to immediately be looking rather than helping OpenAI, Microsoft and Google build moats around existing AI companies. AI as a service is now a reality and can be powered by any number of growing open-source models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. Fasal started with an Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

They're investigating how short, 140-character contributions can build upon each other to create a non-linear narrative – like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Consequences. I came across Jeff Howe's definitive book on Crowdsourcing and in the last chapter he offer guidelines for crowdsourcing. Pick the Right Model.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes 5. Be a good role model 46. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. If not, and you want to be a more effective leader for your team at work in 2011, select one or more of these 70 New Years resolutions for leaders: 1. Dont micromanage 2. Dont be a bottleneck 3. Be humble 47.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2010

Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:28 PM Labels: Customer Service , General Management Skills , Leadership Skills , Management , Team Building 1 comments: davidburkus said. They're definitely simple. And, the most important core value is customer focused! But I like google's even better: don't be evil. Very simple.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

A strong mentoring relationship allows the mentor and the mentee to develop new skills and talents, to build confidence, and to build self-awareness. A mentor can benefit leaders new to their leadership role and they can benefit experienced and seasoned leaders, as well.

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