Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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Nimble AMS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Nimble AMS has always been an advocate for Salesforce’s Person Account model where Business Accounts and Individual Person Accounts are treated as “Account” equals. In the world of associations, both businesses (B2B) and individual customers (B2C) engage with the association to collaborate, participate, and transact.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 12, 2022

You are ready to add new categories of membership, sell products to a different audience, expand programs, or even revise the business model. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Remote work is challenging teams. Clarify Roles.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborative relationships are the future currency. Collaborative relationships are the future’s currency. CEO’s job is to be the most inquisitive person in the room. Identify staffers who will be ambassadors and fill these collaborative roles: Identify employees across the organization to be ambassadors. Don’t compete.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Beyond personal enthusiasm and professional recognition, volunteer leaders don’t have many concrete incentives to excel. The executive director can help the board to see how, by selecting players with a variety of talent, backgrounds, and personal characteristics, they can lead more effectively in a complex environment.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Create a personalized chatbot to interact with members, answer questions, and offer customized recommendations. Compared to today’s models, Eliza was tongue-tied. If you’ve been looking for an initiative to spark interdepartmental collaboration, a chatbot would be a good test case. This is Chat’s contribution.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Although there may be many others involved, the person in charge becomes the face of success. My personal goal is to make opportunities for the future leaders at AIIM. Winton also notes that this skill-based, collaborative model is the way millennials prefer to work. Scoring a big strategic win is exciting.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

CEOs must be role models for their teams. An open mind and the ability to connect and collaborate with diverse groups and people (especially those who don’t share your point of view) creates the nuanced vision needed to imagine multiple outcomes. But, according to Sharon, leadership is the bottom line.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Arguably the biggest impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nonprofit industry was the cancelation of in-person fundraising events. In response, we saw an explosion in the number of events that made the pivot from in-person to virtual. All that being said, here are our picks for the upcoming year (and very likely, beyond).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. One crucial aspect of empathetic leadership is willingness – a willingness to help employees through their personal issues, recognizing that work and personal lives are becoming more and more intertwined.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 13, 2022

The pandemic has caused a re-thinking of how we live and work, while social justice movements have highlighted demands for liberation from models and methods that have upheld the status quo. Hierarchies are becoming flatter, work more collaborative and co-location less relevant. Recent events have been disruptive on a global scale.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

When you turn to another person for relationship advice, whether that’s a trusted friend or therapist, you often start by discussing what’s bothering you. Older models tended to be AMS-centric, leading to siloed data, static reports, and that trapped feeling. Sound familiar? Member engagement is everyone’s job.

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.orgSource

JULY 10, 2023

Resist the temptation to model the competition. Enable volunteers to collaborate and participate by doing what they do best and offering their perspective in specific ways. What personality traits do you look for when you hire staff? Meet frequently with members, prospects, partners, and potential collaborators.

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.orgSource

JUNE 25, 2023

You could assess how people were communicating, determine where the vibe registered on the stress meter, and take the opportunity to connect personally with employees. If you don’t have the budget to provide these resources, you probably need to rethink staffing and business models. Those are the basic requirements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

One person (me) handles the bulk of our copy and content projects. That shift in mindset is one we at Eventgroove urge any nonprofit to lean into. ” Its response neatly explained the nitty-gritty: “ ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. Like many nonprofits, Eventgroove is a small company.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

In an environment of heated rhetoric, civic and social organizations need to proactively think about strengthening relationships with audiences and collaborating from a place of trust. Generations young and old are looking for tangible connections and real-world impact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. We developed stronger relationships within our team and across regions — even as we collaborated on this project from our homes. Kate O’Connor.

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.orgSource

MARCH 20, 2023

One example of this phenomenon that comes to mind is how we will all need to respond to improved AI technology and greater opportunities for customer service and personalization. It cuts across the entire organization and includes constant communication among staffers and departments to ensure collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In collaborative projects, citizens collect data, but they also analyze results and draw conclusions in partnership with the scientists. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 1, 2023

While in-person events are beginning to open up again, many have pivoted to a hybrid learning environment. In-person attendance is becoming both available and optional. About : If you’re the kind of person that thrives in crowds, parties, and socializing, this is your home. The Collaborative (Classy). And, everyone else.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Once a year, the global nonprofit community comes together to collaborate, share best practices, and connect at Dreamforce. The new system allows them to visualize their logic model in action across programs in 24 offices in 14 countries. Use technology that is person-centric so you can scale as you grow.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Leadership Fitness : Leadership philosophy, personal performance, mental training, and ability to master time and calendar. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Being stuck in chronic performance can have a devastating impact on your skills, confidence, job, and personal life. When leaders are not deliberate about building shared mental models, people end up having different ideas of what things mean—such as feedback, imperfection, or mistakes—what is valued, and how to behave at work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 26, 2022

As you think about your own journey, who was the person — or people — who shined a light upon your path at a time you needed it most? Will you be that person? Consider becoming a Big at bbbs.org and see how you can impact the life of a young person. Have you ever told them what a difference they made? About the Author.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) . Launched in August by a local government social service agency in Canada, the AI system analyzes the personal data of participants to calculate who is likely to have nowhere to sleep for an extended period. Data has been “scrubbed” of identifiers like real names.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When they applied it to their actual work task, they realized they could design personalized gift baskets in minutes, not hours. Applying AI to basic collaboration workflows can offer a dividend of time (and brain space). By simply asking, “What food items would be meaningful as a gift to someone from XYZ country?”

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2024

Person-to-person matchmaking, though, is just the beginning. Send Handwritten Letters First, Not Emails Email is faster and can return instant results, but old-fashioned handwritten letters give that personal touch. Professional fundraisers usually rely on data and collaborative planning to establish campaign fundraising goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

They’ve seen them wrestling with children, in trying to manage personal and professional challenges at home, more Zoom gaffes than we can count, etc., She explained a particularly difficult conversation and we all stopped and helped her work through her personal issue before diving back into business. The converse is also true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Eugene Eric Kim is an expert in online culture and collaboration, particularly with new tools. The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. Debrief: What happened?

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Timely submissions and consistent, personalized stewardship signal to internal and external constituents that your nonprofit is ready to effectively participate in the fundraising arena. Funders will make financial gifts if what you offer aligns with their philanthropic or personal interests.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

NLP is useful for an AI model to identify the intent of a person based on what they say or what they type. The Children’s Society is using the generated conversational data to automate “authentic and personalized donor communication.”. Collect rich, labeled data to train conversation models. Natural-language processing.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

They’re commonly associated with enterprise solutions and can provide an array of advanced features, such as personalization. Licensing Methods The licensing model of a CMS plays a pivotal role in long-term costs. Differences in personalization capabilities can be vast across CMS platforms.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2023

Not only do those mental models not apply, but they also become a liability in a changed world. Second, decades of digital disruption have brought us to an increasingly complex and interdependent global economy where the simple models of the past have less and less relevance every day. From extrinsic pressure to intrinsic motivation.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. The ability to collaborate is one of this sector’s greatest strengths. Personal calls and regular thank you letters help your donors connect with your cause.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. "The solution we have collaboratively developed is truly simple.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. Platform builder.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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