Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It can also be used for those who coach, mentor, counsel and advise early career women, with insights and exercises for those you are supporting. Christie Hunter Arscott Today, Hunter Arscott shares these additional insights with us: Question: How can women address and improve feelings of frustration and burnout in their careers?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 28, 2021

During these past 1-1/2 years, the pandemic inspired many of us to question what we value – an ideal time for, Be Where Your Feet Are , the new book by Scott O’Neil , which lays out the seven principles needed to keep you present, grounded, and thriving in work, home, and everything in between. Give this exercise a try.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

But through shared documents and calendars via cloud-based platforms, the Executive Director of the horse rescue has the extra help they need to get everything done. To determine if a nonprofit virtual assistant is right for you, try this exercise: Write down all the tasks you will need to do in the coming month. Then, give it a whirl!

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sgEngage

JULY 17, 2023

Confirm whether your organization provides a professional development budget Order a standalone alarm clock to replace your smart device alarm Time block your daily start and stop routines on your calendar. Put yourself on your calendar—seriously. This exercise can be done individually or as a small group.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 12, 2021

I always ask how their organization is, but just as important a question is: How are they? Your stress levels are proven to reduce through exercise. Even if it’s just one or two evenings a week, put it in the calendar and make it a priority. Barely a day goes by when I don’t contact a friend in the nonprofit sector.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Mark off a couple of blocks of time on your calendar to research things like supplies, materials, and equipment online or call local vendors to find out what things cost. It’s time to ask yourself some questions about the programs and services your new nonprofit will provide this year. Good question. Estimate revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. Together, we co-facilitated this exercise in two languages and Maria did a great job at bi-lingual capture of the notes. This was part of an exercise to think through how a personal brand can support an organizational brand.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

In the report, Geoff describes the training this way: The training program treated the giving day as an exercise in best practices. Components included video tutorials, suggested calendars of activity, sample materials, frequently asked questions, logos, and a Twibbon for Facebook and Twitter use. Benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

Not only do you need to pre-plan your content using an editorial calendar but coordinate and assign tasks and organize your content assets and curation. And, then there is the task of putting fingers to keyboard and creating the content as well as curating. .” Then you have get organized, really organized.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

For the second half of the morning, I shared “Eight Habits of Highly Effective Networked Nonprofits” with some exercises that help people see that by taking small steps, they can achieve success. My favorite tip was that Holly shared her Editorial Calendar Template spreadsheet. Learns from experience and data.

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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? A quick glance at your calendar shows that you spent hours in meetings, answering emails, or working on shared documents but you can’t remember why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

One of the classes was focused on “ Small Professional Online Networking ” and includes an exercise where participants analyze, de-layer, and build the “core” of their professional network. That question may make it hard to let go. Think about what happens to your closet if you don’t organize it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Why not end the meeting early? In addition, we should always question our assumption of the need for a one hour meeting, why not book in 30 minute or 45 minute meeting intervals? There were tons of questions in general about meetings, many about how to change an organization’s meeting culture.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The welcome series isn't an exercise in talking about yourself and what your mission and programs have accomplished. There's no reason to hold off on integrating new email subscribers into your regular communications calendar for e-appeals and e-newsletter. Asking for Financial Support Is Optional in a Welcome Series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

I realized that from participants reflections and questions that they’re already curating content – especially as policy analysts, but may not be integrating and sharing through social media channels. ” The exercise used the layer cake metaphor and some planning questions. and storify.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2023

Now that virtual meetings dominate calendars, the last thing most employees want to do is spend unstructured time staring at Zoom boxes. In this exercise, team norms are agreed upon and serve as operating principles that guide remote team members’ interactions. Early in the pandemic, Zoom coffee chats and happy hours felt novel.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So don’t be shy, ask questions. There’s a question box. We’d love to answer your questions. . And I’m going to leave time for questions, as Steven said. And you can always listen to the recording, follow up with any questions. There’s a chat box. You can tweet us. trillion package.

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MARCH 28, 2022

Your nonprofit’s future will look less daunting if you project your fundraising revenue while you’re planning your year, including mapping out what you plan to do in each program and calendaring all your marketing and fundraising activities. . This is an important exercise for every nonprofit. Ask the same questions for each bucket.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

But most importantly, please feel free to chat in any questions or comments that you have along the way. And then as Steven said, we’ll do some Q&A at the end, so feel free to get those questions coming. . And I kind of like this question, who should be a bigger donor? Who do you exercise with?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 13, 2022

Answer the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’, and ‘why’ questions to make your goal specific. Think through questions like ‘how much’ and ‘how many’ to make your goal quantifiable, like “acquire 100 new donors this year” which will be pretty easy to measure. Create a grant calendar by January 1 of the top 10 grants we’ll go after this year.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But most importantly, feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. You will get exactly the same amount of content and your questions answered in the time that you have allotted for this training. ” And when you’re interviewing those candidates, of course, you’re going to ask some questions.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Empower your board leadership to exercise effective governance and maintain more control over meetings. As a final note, distribute each agenda in advance so that attendees have plenty of time to propose adjustments and come prepared with valuable insights and questions. Improved nonprofit governance. Take comprehensive minutes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so use that chat box, use the question box, you can use either of those, we would love to hear from you. But you’re also welcome to just pop a question into the chat anytime. I want to make sure you get your questions answered along the way. ” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. They are also learning how to access professional and personal networks to get answers to their questions. The idea is micro-content and micro-exercises or mini-sessions. Organize tasks and Guard Your Calendar.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

We’ll save some time for questions but, most importantly, we would love to hear from you. But do reach out because we’ll have some time for your questions at the end. And one of the exercises you can use to figure that out is this kind of bullseye graphic, which is in the book but you can easily draw it on a piece of paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

One exercise you might want to go through to define success is to gather a diverse group of staff and have them answer the following questions: How do you define success for our organization or program? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. And everyday until….

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