sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. On its face, evaluation seems like a neutral activity, designed to help us understand what’s happened, and to change course where needed. For whom is monitoring, evaluation, and learning being done?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Art of Change Leadership demystifies the psychology behind our reactions to change and offers a powerful collection of tools to inspire individual and collective transformation quickly and more effectively, explains author of the book, Cheryl Cran. Cran also explains the differences between a Change Manager and a Change Leader.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 6, 2021

Just like any technology, realizing success on the Salesforce platform takes careful maintenance, dedication to change management, and intentional roadmap planning. Encourage Continued Learning. Build a Knowledge Repository.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

Success in highly technical roles relies just as much on customer service and change management as on technical abilities. Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Reset, or how to change, is the heart of SRT. You must execute with agility and learn along the way to a sustainable, successful, high-growth path. Growth is a learning cycle with constant loops of testing, gaining insights, implementing, sharing, and iterating for improvement. Optimize for robustness, not just efficiency.

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NTEN

APRIL 2, 2014

I was initially very timid, because my knowledge base was low, but feel much more adept as a result of the Academy. change management Change Management Digital Strategy intensive it Leadership Leadership nonprofit tech academy NTA social media Staffing Strategy IT Staff' Does the following sound good to you?

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Record that institutional knowledge in an accessible Policies and Procedures manual. By making sure you have the right processes and best practices in place, you have accurate, up-to-date information even as your staff changes! Blackbaud University Instructor Chrissy Haskell also contributed to this article.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. The way we think about experience has changed. Value chains have changed. IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Scaling Impact sessions offer strategies and knowledge about how we can help nonprofits achieve better and more results. Roshan Paul, Senior Change Manager, Ashoka.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

This week before I leave for the Middle East, I will have the honor of presenting at the Grantmakers For Effective Organization’s Conference in Seattle. I am doing a session called “ Learning in Public ” with Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, TCC Group. Roshan Paul, Senior Change Manager, Ashoka.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

NTEN’s gathered some of the top nonprofit social media experts to help your organization devise a solid strategy as well as learn the secrets of using a variety of social media tools. The Learning Objectives. Explore the organizational change management issues that social media raises and how to talk about them.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Are you hoping to gain a better understanding of your membership program and how it’s working, or to manage event-related data more efficiently? To succeed, you’ll need time, knowledge, and a proper technology infrastructure on your side. No matter the specifics, a data warehouse offers the versatility to support your needs.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Keri brought structure and expert knowledge about how to coordinate the change. Stacey and Lis brought openness and honesty with regard to how their roles would change as they evolved into new director-level roles. As it turned out, everyone’s job changed. Some people changed managers.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Also, using a team approach, we all learn and grow together, increasing our organizational capacity to use social media. The knowledge doesn't just reside with one person." They tackled tough questions such as: “we’ve never put together a podcast, how will we practically make this happen AND work through the learning curve?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

This seems to be the theme that is happening the comment thread over at Sean's Tactical Philanthropy blog in the comments about his Learning From Foundation Tweets post. Tags: change management. There's a fine line between personal and personality and being human and being professional. He feels that it is mistake.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

NTEN and Jossey-Bass/Wiley is hosting the " Online NTC ," a 2-day online conference based on the book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. It is a learning event to help you better understand how to manage technology. They Just Won't Listen to Reason (Chapter on Change Management with Dahna Goldstein.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Arguably the biggest hindrance of change is the notion that nothing needs to be changed because it’s always been done a certain way. Fear not and be open to new technologies , connect with your peers and never stop learning. Don’t let fear of change hold your organization back from making much needed technology upgrades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. The importance of carving out time for this type of learning. Beth's Monitor. No downright sick in the stomach.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Bolstering your expertise can happen through research and sharing your knowledge. Use resources both within and outside the organization to bolster your knowledge. All of this is important to building your credibility as a leader, and to helping position technology changes that you want to lead.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

In building these relationships, they learned that they needed to change the way they spoke to these communities and to take a more multigenerational approach because the girls’ families are a core part of their lives. “It was about whether they trusted us.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

We'll include a live question and answer and a back channel discussion with experts and practitioners sharing their expertise and knowledge. The Learning Objectives. Explore the organizational change management issues that social media raises and how to talk about them.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

How does the techie learn to listen to the needs, build relationships, and develop solutions that meet the organization's goals? Knowledge is power and one of the best places to seek knowledge about your organization is by reading the strategic plan. How can a techie coexist in a world where tech doesn't have a seat the table?

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to put the media and marketing hype in perspective. You’ll notice that right away below the fold.

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NTEN

JANUARY 24, 2012

On January 17th, the nonprofit, technology, and financial communities learned that Blackbaud was beginning the steps to acquire Convio , whose board had approved the purchase. This news came as a surprise to most people in those communities, and triggered much discussion in both traditional media and social media channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Knowledge work in philanthropy is a big umbrella, expanding exponentially over the last decade to cover more of what grants professionals do on a regular basis. Philanthropy and knowledge work have a long history, from demonstration projects to evaluation to the encouragement of learning communities and grantee learning networks.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 15, 2009

The example Russ and I discussed related to the use of a wiki to capture organizational knowledge. One of my long-standing contentions is that an enormous amount of organizational knowledge exists in emails between stakeholders. This is a step that is often ignored in this type of change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? If you’re considering running this game yourself, definitely check out what we learned ! Tags: change management training materials. Lots of great ideas.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JUNE 3, 2007

Here are some of the things we learned: 1. Without this kind of knowledge, your users will have a long slow climb to productivity on the new system. Information Systems rollout trainings need to include a change management component. Staff forget things they learned but have not been using.

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Neon CRM

JULY 12, 2023

Our clients also have access to courses on lots of different topics through Neon One Academy , which is a really cool way to brush up on your fundraising skills and learn how to use your tools to create great experiences for their supporters. Neon One Academy is for All Learning Styles Alex: I agree!

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Our competitiveness as a nation allows us to bring in people to the knowledge economy. You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. How do you evaluate organizations that you invest in that develop games to support learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2006

" We've all been talking to him about that and we discovered that he always wanted to learn the oboe! That's a hard instrument to learn -- particularly if you are in your 80's. s Ear Managers are sometimes hard to convince in a group setting, so meet privately to address any concerns. The title intrigued me.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). That knowledge builds greater mutual respect, which is vital to a teams success.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Change management remained an integral facet of the Foundation’s implementation plan throughout the migration to Salesforce from Luminate CRM and Luminate Online. Later that summer, the Foundation linked up with Cloud for Good Managed Services to further support team members and the organization’s change management.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Let Employees Learn From Their Mistakes Mistakes happen. The best thing you can do as a manager and leader is to help your employee learn from his (or her) mistake.

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2021

Having a precise picture of your current state of systems will allow you to identify where there are inefficiencies so that you can make the necessary changes. Develop a change management plan. By starting small you are also able to create buy-in across internal teams through success stories and lessons learned.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Using the 18-page ebook, youll learn : •what a strategic messaging plan should encompass (and what it shouldn’t). •how to identify the right tone and content.

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