Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Tyson Foods has perfected a social media strategy that leverages blog comments for food donations as noted on the Fast Company blog , (part of its innovative giving series which included a profile of me !) Tyson's strategy has inspired bloggers and other companies to use this technique to give to charity. Here's a few examples.

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APRIL 5, 2011

He learned private sector database marketing techniques at Capital One, where he managed marketing and business development teams in both online and direct mail divisions. Jeff also built and served as president of a start-up called EnVisto and worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The IT industry is overwhelmed with companies and courses and products aimed at the commercial world. Trying to follow the example set by a commercial company, just in a nonprofit way, probably won't work, but there are lessons to be learned. Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfalls As the year comes to a close its likely time for many business leaders to tackle the annual performance appraisal process. So, here is a good reminder from author Sharon Armstrong about how to avoid eight performance evaluation pitfalls.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

And like those other core functions, we must examine our technology and data strategies to properly evaluate and prioritize our needs and successfully build our digital capacity. Great stewardship happens when your leadership, your development officers and your donor relations team work together. Research / @SSIReview. Feb 21 - 24.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

They’re a great way to learn new techniques, brush up on industry knowledge, and learn about up-and-coming trends—all of which are important as you hone your fundraising skills. They’re then followed by someone who works for the company who steps in and demonstrates how to execute the strategy using their product.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 How To Produce An Effective Company Blog If you lead a business and aren’t part of the 34% of U.S. companies using a blog for marketing purposes, your business likely will within the next year. Make it relevant to your company or products. Make your blog as non-promotional as possible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010 Build A Strong Team. Be An Effective Team Member. Its somewhat difficult to find a copy of Price Pritchetts 1992 handbook called, The Team Member Handbook For Teamwork, but if you do locate a copy, it provides you good, practical, useful information. Youll learn as a manager how to build a strong team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010 How To Write Your Companys Core Values Walk into any Whole Foods grocery store and youll see that companys core values proudly presented on a large sign. The values clearly set the companys culture. As Whole Foods explains, their core values are the "soul" of its company.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010 How To Create A "Best Places To Work" Company Overland Park, Kansas-based author Leigh Branham, along with Mark Hirschfeld, recently completed a survey of 10,000 employees in 43 states to better understand what separates a "best places to work" company from other companies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Be An Effective Team Member.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

To evaluate this, you have to consider whether your visitors are Web 2.0 Companies like Bazaarvoice can sell you custom Web-based solutions (for about $50,000). There are some companies that create limited community features specifically to encourage word-of-mouth and shared participation. You can promote your Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

Once you’ve analyzed your data, you most likely will need to prepare some sort of report for your boss, your team, your board, or donors. Donna Mehr, Smart Annual Giving, wrote “ How To Evaluate the ROI of Your Annual Appeal.” Lori Jacobwith’s S haring Boring Data? What’s the Point? ” Advocacy Campaigns.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. The Fast Company Innovation Festival. The Fast Company Innovation Festival.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

“An added benefit of conducting employee satisfaction research is that, in doing so, a company lets their employees know they are important, their opinions and suggestions matter, and there is a sincere desire to make the company an enjoyable place to work,&# reports Polaris. .&#

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Helping those companies to earn that honor are the perks they give their employees, some of which you might want to consider for 2011.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan Mike Brown, the founder of the Kansas City company called, The Brainzooming Group, encourages business leaders to solicit feedback from their customers when creating a strategic plan. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010 How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone Every business leader should periodically call his/her company to observe how their customers are being treated by their employees -- because, all too often a phone conversation becomes a customer turnoff rather than a relationship builder.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2010

3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Sunday, October 17, 2010 What To Think About For Next Year Hopefully, 2011 will be better for most businesses. The Five Points Of Professionalism How To Talk About Poor Performance With An Employe. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010 Ten More Ways To Be An Effective Leader Here are 10 behaviors, techniques and tips you can use to be an effective leader: Respond to questions quickly and fully. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Take an interest in your employees and their personal milestone events.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The program evaluates words and phrases for the intensity of eight primary emotions, allowing you to adjust the overall tone before you send your message. ToneCheck reports that many companies also battle productivity loss triggered by misread employee email. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Quickly get answers when phoning your company? You can find more examples of companies with impressive guiding principles in the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees. . 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Is it easy for your customers to: Buy from you? Make returns?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compare your evaluators responses to your own self-assessment. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Dont evaluate or criticize ideas when they are first suggested. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. So, be sure you provide the forums and mechanisms for your employees to share their ideas with you. Hold at least a few brainstorming sessions each year, as well. Ask for wild ideas.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Most often, you’ll find your best mentors are not your supervisors, but instead are other individuals in your workplace, at other companies in your city, or are members of organizations to which you belong. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

I appreciate all the work you’ve put into it, as do your team members.&# 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. An example of positive feedback is : “Bob, your communications skills have dramatically improved over the past couple of months.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

If not, and you want to be a more effective leader for your team at work in 2011, select one or more of these 70 New Years resolutions for leaders: 1. Assess your companys strengths and weaknesses at all times 6. Constantly challenge your team to do better 11. Teach something new to your team 24. Dont micromanage 2.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn how leading companies are getting the most from their data. Designed for advancement professionals charged with starting or growing a student philanthropy program.Learn techniques to create a tradition of gratitude and support for the institution among students. Fundraising. 2016 Analytics with Purpose Conference. Mar 9 - 11.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. . -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

That is, what are their self-interests versus what the company can offer them. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. This is best accomplished by allowing employees to see clearly where they stand in the organization versus where they want to be in their careers. They pose alternatives.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the managers team. Good managers know that most decisions can be tweaked along the way as their teams carry out their tasks impacted by the decision. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

When everyone knows how each job/position on your team fits together, your team can accomplish so much more. Plus, the new-found knowledge drives a better appreciation for what everyone does, and proves to the team that success comes only when all the pieces fit together like a well-oiled machine.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 21, 2010

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes There are lots of lessons tied to those canary yellow squares, called Post-it Notes -- how ideas and innovations can come from anyone on your team at any time. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. How test marketing is critical.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you say youll send a team member a report, do so. But, following through is critical to keeping your team effective and efficient. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. If you promise to get an employee an answer, get it for him or her. Too many managers dont follow through.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

Sunday, June 13, 2010 Lessons From Good To Great Here are two of my favorite quotes from the hugely popular leadership book, Good To Great : "The good-to-great companies did not say, Okay, folks, lets get passionate about what we do. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Tell him how his actions negatively affect the team. Remind him that he is a valuable part of the team and that you have confidence his performance will improve. 3 Coaching And Mentoring Tips How To Avoid 8 Common Performance Evaluation Pitfa. Tell him what performance is in need of change and be specific.

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