Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

For Students , adapted from Brian Tracy ’s time-management bestseller, Eat That Frog , which has sold more than 2.4 This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. A student’s life is completely different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master.

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Facilitation Method Technique Exercise 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Photo by Gary Clark.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2006

Got an email today advertising a free one-week training for student activists put on by Greenpeace and Seventh Generation called Change It 2006. Oh to be 18-24 again!

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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 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and focus setting: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words .” This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Mayer’s research is from the 1990s, but the finders were recently validated again in a study from Carl Wieman that college students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Suse Anderson spoke about the drawbacks of professionalization: Moves to “professionalise” the sector that make an MA entry level + cost of grad school + systemic under compensation —> further embedding class stasis of who can work in museums, whilst making public arguments for DEAI that contradict institutional actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement. ” 3.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

This is a guest blog from Anna Reid, an Amherst student who interned with Bookshare.org International this past summer. I collaborated with people at Worth Trust to develop techniques that will improve the efficiency and quality of their work. I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Hey, this is our yearly fundraiser, won’t you gives us money to help current students have a great experience at our university? Valencia College Foundation fine-tuned their ask down to a fund that would provide scholarships to first generation students. Create Excitement & Provide Ownership. Want to improve your P2P knowledge?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2008

The project started by a college student named Shawn whose wants to make the world a better place one small personal action at a time.   We can end extreme poverty - but I have to tell the students the bad news: it???s .  And, it is probably easy to feel that our efforts won't make impact. 

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. The Conference itself includes philanthropy classes ranging from individual donors, planned giving, and marketing/social media subjects. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Feb 21 - 24.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

BJ: Most games I have designed through museums have been in partnership - with professional game designers, with high school students, with scientists (and other content experts), and with digital developers (that AR component of the pterosaurs card game was amazing). What’s your favorite part?

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Learn strategies, tools and techniques to enhance your individual leadership style and talents. Alliance Management Institute (AMI). Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Kansan City, KA/ $625.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

" ( cross posted on Facebook as a note ) Two ideas sparked this question: Priscilla Brice-Weller's thoughts on the Levels of Engagement and a slideshare show by Michael Weiksner, BJ Fogg, and Xing Xin Lui from a class at Stanford called " Creating Engaging Applications on Facebook."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This year I'm indulging in three of my passions: raising money for Cambodian children with social media, teaching a social media nonprofit strategy class, and eating chocolate. It also helps students learn the process of a rapid prototype experiment that has viral effects, can be measured, and improved with reflection.

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Classes Celebrate Cambodia Exercise 95

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attendees can participate in planting sessions, learn about gardening techniques, and contribute to the maintenance of community gardens. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. I want to connect these students to a larger group of people interested in exploring topics around social technology in museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

I am hoping that I can set up something with my son's class and the kids she is working in Cambodia over the next year. C4C will teach them basic photo techniques, pay for developing and enlargements, and hold exhibitions in Cambodia, the US and Paris (summer/fall 2006), and beyond.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I see four main reasons: Most participatory experimentation in museums starts in educational departments, and many educators primarily engage (and are funded to work with) students. Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Learn how to make your campaigns – and your career – more successful than ever and do it in a world-class venue. Cultivating Student Philanthropy. Leadership. Feb 18 - 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Alas, Fan, a high-school senior, had to depart in July to attend summer classes at Stanford.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 7, 2024

Given that the program is 25-years-old, and its first class of students started when they were in sixth grade, the first wave of participants are now coming into their prime earning years. The post New And Old Techniques Target Donor Pipeline Expansion appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques? And, of course, crowd sourcing is a technique being used across the social sector for different goals. The maps are made by community members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact.

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Policy Social Media International News 103

Byte Technology

MARCH 23, 2016

Institutions of teaching still wholly relied on the skill and effectiveness of the individual standing in front of a chalkboard to impart information to a hopefully wide-eyed audience—no matter if they were first graders learning their multiplication tables or medical students delving into the maze of human anatomy.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Photos of students engaging with iThrive programming anchor every page of their site. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. Very dangerous things (health and safety) Adult camp-in “Partner Swap Among the Dinosaurs” An exhibition on techniques, tips, and tools for covert eco-terrorism aimed at affecting government policy.

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