Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2019

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I was delighted when Ron Schultz invited me to collaborate with him on his latest book Creating Good Work – The World’s Leading Social Entrepreneurs Show How to Build a Healthy Economy. In my contribution to Ron’s book, I discuss the framework that guides us at Benetech, the technology nonprofit I lead.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore. The Beta model is taking its place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Note from Beth: I first encountered Nina Simon through her awesome blog back four or five years ago. I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. What do these categories look like outside of the science environment? Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Come on, get real already. whenever i???ve

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Second, you must establish a protocol for maintaining high-structure, high-substance 1:1 dialogues with the individuals on your team. A great deal has changed in employees’ work lives in a short time, so it’s more important than ever to have a pulse on how their views on the ideal work environment may be evolving.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 19, 2014

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2015

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore. The Beta model is taking its place.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2015

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

Business 40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. Collaboration: The Alpha paradigm is all about the individual, but “going it alone” simply does not work anymore. The Beta model is taking its place.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. Wikis/Blogs. Sometimes the environment is too harsh or too dangerous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 24, 2013

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2007

My colleague, John Kenyon , who is a brilliant and talented nonprofit technology trainer just came back from trip to Australia. Readers of this blog might recall that John and I got a chance to do some training session in the UK last January and I did a video blog post interview with him. I have always appreciated other???

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Nearly 45 percent of employees report that their organizations are insufficiently innovative in using new technologies or creative approaches to improve internal effectiveness. Nearly half of employees do not feel that their teams receive high-quality support from other teams within their organizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

note: This is the first in a fantastic series of guest posts by the authors of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. For more of Steve's thoughts on the book, check out his blog : he's writing about each chapter over 11 weeks. Technology is often a solution that does the same thing. That brings us to IT Alignment.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

article published earlier in this series, we discussed information technology purchases, and how a central buying agency can represent— or fail to represent —affiliate interests. These vendors may provide software, technology platforms, operational services, implementation services or ongoing specialty services. In the “ Who buys?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy. Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Nonprofits and technology often don’t mix. It isn’t because nonprofits are fundamentally inept with technology, however. Technology projects in the nonprofit sector are simultaneously outrageously expensive and drastically underfunded. Before long, you’ll have the development assistant searching Google for “technology grants.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 27, 2021

Salesforce technology is the engine of innovation for over 150K companies across industries and sectors. For the education space, specifically, Salesforce has revolutionized the way campuses are connected through their technology. Brent Graber, Director of Information Technology. I just don’t think it would have been feasible.”

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 18, 2023

You can structure donation tiers as impact-based or as recognition/reward based perks for your donors. Leveraging Technology In Fundraising In the contemporary landscape of fundraising, technology serves as a dynamic catalyst, revolutionizing the way nonprofits connect with donors and amplify their impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Use Technorati , a blog search engine.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. It could be doing something as simple as providing a blog about topics of value to your audience.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The process of grants compliance is a team sport and given all the financial and programmatic requirements, it requires collaboration between these two core functional areas. Do you have the personnel and technology infrastructure to manage the award upon receipt? Consider this your grants compliance checklist.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Each week, I’ve been ceding the blog to others as a chance to hear many voices share their thoughts about our field, where we are, and where we are going. Andrea has been a leader in the museum technology field. Before I introduce our writer this week, I will say, reach out if you’d like to add your thoughts.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

Sam’s philosophy is that there shouldn’t be an expectation for busy nonprofit people to be experts in technology, but it is important that they be self-sufficient. It’s good to get some basic no nonsense information so organizations can worry less about their technology. That is truly important work for two reasons.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They’re collaborative, they’re passionate about your mission. And then, as we continue to engage in this digital remote world, I think we’re all becoming much more comfortable with leveraging technology and social media to amplify our message as well. Next is we want people who we can partner with. They are awesome.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 25, 2024

His extensive work on effective leadership and organizational success offers valuable lessons for structuring boards that not only meet but surpass organizational goals. This model views the board and executive leadership as equal partners working collaboratively towards shared goals. billion in aid and fed millions.

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