Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

It's not enough to review your notecards and double-check your PowerPoint. You've done all the prep work and you know what you're talking about, so give yourself permission to adapt to changes in your presentation as they occur. Kulhan recommends you follow these five tips : Warm Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements with others and have invited guest blog posts on this topic. Also, the burden of influence and persuasion is higher, while you risk that return on investment may be lower in terms of actually creating change. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They often have books, blogs, and podcasts. Most importantly, board members should leave feeling motivated to make the changes necessary that will take your board to the next level of performance and impact so your mission can soar! If a facilitator does good work, people will happily sing their praises. They are impact-driven.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Make sure to follow him on Twitter at @noyesjesse and check out the Eloqua blog – they’re doing some great things! … pronounced Al Gore, the former Vice President and presenter of perhaps the most watched PowerPoint ever, at the Games for Change conference. This is a guest post by Jesse Noyes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 4, 2012

The people you want to talk to are closely connected to the goal and if one changes, the other may react. Lastly, check out the various applications that LinkedIn integrates with – for example, you can pull in RSS feeds from your blog or the organization’s website, have your slide shows appear on your profile, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

Remix this Powerpoint. I've been an strong advocate of Creative Commons for the last four years, have written many blog posts , and even taught a workshop or two on "Open Content.". (If The Creative Commons licenses enable people to easily change their copyright terms from the default of “all rights reserved” to “ some rights reserved.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

I recently wrote a blog entry about LibreOffice (LO), the fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo) that came after the acquisition of Sun (the old holder/maintainer of OOo) by Oracle. For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. ’). It doesn’t have Publisher.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

What tools and techniques do you use to create good conversations on your blog? Do you have an awesome example of a conversation on your blog or one that you've started elsewhere? to Change The World I also created another version for University Extension professionals and one that focused on fundraising/marketing. Look forward.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2017

It's not enough to review your notecards and double-check your PowerPoint. You've done all the prep work and you know what you're talking about, so give yourself permission to adapt to changes in your presentation as they occur. Kulhan recommends you follow these five tips : Warm Up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I also had to take a little bit more care in delivering parts of my presentation that relied on being able to see the visual images in the powerpoint by describing them. So I engaged them in a discussion about term “walking meetings,” and how to change the name as well as make accommodations. I made this part of the instructions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. A strong theory of change can make that case.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Fortunately, you can change your vanity URL at a later date if necessary—if you get married and change your name, for example. LinkedIn has a small application directory that allows you to feature your blog and PowerPoint presentations directly on your profile, among other things. Make Connections. Use LinkedIn Apps.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Guest blog posts. How to lists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

” Only a tiny few raised their hands as Debbie mentioned that organizations that have been around for a century or more take time to change their culture. “If This lead them to really examine how to effect culture change. At SF Goodwill they created a Blog Squad to kick things off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The technique I use for getting verbal on a workshop is to ask what would participants keep, change, or delete? You can also handout index cards and ask people to write “positives” on one side and “please change” on the other. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning? Or, have them fold 8 x 11.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Very useful for small nonprofits with a very limited budget. Ironically, these posts and a few others last week upped my reach by 274% but more importantly supported my goal of generating ideas for blog content! As Stephanie mentions in her tips , “Create Awesome Content” is at the top of the list. Learn from others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2007

While PowerPoint presentations with deadening bullet points are banned from sessions, I a few slides to share. My draft which will change drastically can be found here. This year I"m speaking on a panel called " Getting It On(line) for a Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

What does it mean that one blog has three times as many users as another blog in the nonprofit tech space? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. I think it means nothing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

My photos and blog posts have traveled around the world! I've always wondered whether or not when someone makes a gazillion dollars on one of my photos or my blog posts, will I be sorry? Remix This Powerpoint. The powerpoint slides came from a webinar I did a couple years ago for University Extension professionals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed. You can also handout index cards and ask people to write “positives” on one side and “please change” on the other. What part of the workshop should be changed to improve learning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2010

The focus of the day was on the life cycles of networks and Theory of Change Archetypes for Networks. I asked Nancy White on Twitter and her answer got me doodling on Powerpoint (see above). It generated an insightful discussion about crowdsourcing for innovation and social change, organizational culture issues, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

Fortunately, you can change your vanity URL at a later date if necessary—if you get married and change your name, for example. LinkedIn has a small application directory that allows you to feature your blog and PowerPoint presentations directly on your profile, among other things. Make Connections. Use LinkedIn Apps.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 1, 2016

Rather than torment your board with another boring board meeting, why not follow some of Gail’s tips in her terrific guest blog post this week? Have they possibly lost their energy to create change and make a difference? You can certainly change this situation, and you’ll make your board members happier as a result.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

But interestingly, Yugma is now integrated with Skype, which totally changes the whole audio on a separate channel issue. at 3:56 pm Great America Networks Conferencing has a WebConferencing tool called QuickVisuals that lets you share your desktop, PowerPoint, video files, webcam from a PC/Mac/Linux platform easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2010

We were lucky that Rob Cottingham from Social Signal was in the room cartoon blogging. He captured the key points above. Judy Chang presented an overview of PayPal’s contests, including its Regift the Fruitcake. ( I also learned about their giving app ). Cartoon by Rob Cottingham of Social Signal. Danielle @starfocus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

I have become a big believer in social media, and am convinced it can help advance the social change work that binds all of us in the Communications Network. This blog post was originally published on the Communications Network Blog. Flickr Photo by El Dave.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology This guy is right on April 18, 2007 A blog reader introduced me to a new blog by a guy named Phil Jones. Among other great things, he has this amazing post about Microsoft, and their future.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a very interesting PDF floating about with a powerpoint presentation by the CEO of the RIAA about the copyright/filesharing, etc. It might indeed make vlogging a lot easier as well. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! I’m going to watch this pretty carefully. issue as they see it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

It totally changed the atmosphere of the room, and people were ready to learn. So as participants came back from lunch, I had them do Bollywood dance moves. And to make it more fun, I awarded prizes. Other times, I simply made them stretch like the photo above. I had different energizers planned for after lunch on each of the training days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

For more traditional institutions that have worked in a particular way, embracing this tool might require addressing some cultural/change management issues first. My Plancast for SXSW Session: Crowdsourcing Social Change. I recently came across a tool called " Plan Cast " which incorporates these concepts but in a different way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

to Change The World. The title is " Remix This Powerpoint " -- it's some draft thoughts on remixing and wink to SlideShare's new feature - the ability to download the Powerpoint file ! I followed the profile to the blog and discovered Brian Lamb's Abject Learning. Executable code for a operating system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2006

As a follow up to last week's screencast on how to use flickr as a visual resource, here is a post about how to share your wonderfully visual powerpoints with others via your blog or flickr. Embed Powerpoint Slides as Flash Presentations in your Blog without Spending a Dime , I just had to try it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2006

In a post titled " How To Manage The PowerPoint Presentation Process From Conception to Rehearsal To Handouts " Ellen Finkelstein, author of How To Do Anything With PowerPoint stresses that "Your PowerPoint file is not your presentation; what you say before an audience is your presentation."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Then, select one or more for your summer reading list. Then, select one or more for your summer reading list. Then, select one or more for your summer reading list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

As I sit here avoiding the completion of the rest of the powerpoint slides for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK session I'm leading with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 Miles Maier is blogging at the London ICT Champion and he left a comment. Our volunteers blogs on www.do-it.org.uk Here and here ).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2020

I hope y’all enjoyed my first – ever blog post ! Excel, Word, Powerpoint with flashy graphics… something where you can jot down your wins , y our efforts, your accomplishments , and those of your team as well. W e are change agents. Hi again, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood DBA.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Over the long weekend I finally managed to get started on a new project I've been excited to get involved with - a new website for the Sigida Keneyali health project in Mali that I blogged about in January. Via my friend Marnie Webb' s blog, I happened to read this article from Information Week. IT at NPOs: Non-Profit Tech Recruiting.

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