Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Additionally, supplementing the teachings found within the book, Sonnenberg provides you with more learning opportunities via free content and in-depth instructions at ComeUpForAir. Increase employee happiness, satisfaction, trust, and retention by making work easier.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Knowing how, when, and where to break down the system of responsibilities for your volunteers will determine the quality of their experience as well as the success of your events. These tips will allow you to streamline the volunteer management process, launch a strong volunteer program , and reap the rewards of a great scheduling system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content Delivery Is Not Learning. 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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There are two different methods to evaluate your training. Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. I also ask for feedback on what exercises or content in the workshop helped learning and what should be changed. Documentation.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. Google answered these challenges with a system that ultimately became GA4, and announced no further development of UA. Needless to say, a lot has changed since 2005.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But all the content in the world can only get you so far when not paired with real life circumstances and the experiences of someone who has undergone the difficult processes in their infancy. It can also consist of reinforcement of techniques and procedures. How can my organization utilize coaching? Reinforcement.

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Gyrus

MAY 19, 2016

Gamification is fast emerging as an effective and exciting technique to engage with learners in the corporate training world. Gamification is the technique of using game elements and mechanics in the learning environment. Game elements such as achievement badges, leaderboards, point systems, level progressions, etc.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. This way, you can note which engagement methods were most successful and focus your energies accordingly in the future! Try using these post-donation engagement methods: .

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 14, 2016

But just because that mentality exists, it doesn’t mean that it cannot be gamified or even done in an impactful way that can and will completely benefit your system’s learners. Why are you transitioning the content over to the new media in the first place? It may be time to consider changing your delivery method.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

Nonprofit, church, library, and foundation offices are vulnerable to this malware, which can lock up your IT system until a ransom is paid. The malware then locks up and encrypts the files in the IT system and holds them for ransom until a payment is made, usually demanded in Bitcoin. How to Protect Your IT System. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

" Other Password Security Techniques. Carlos Bergfeld , product content manager, told me, "TechSoup provided its employees with password security training that suggested we create a secure password 'root' to use for all login credentials. Anna Jaeger , CTO of Caravan Studios, invented her own technique.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

Having a reporting system that can track these sources is vital in determining which channel produces the greatest ROI. Combining both content marketing techniques and digital advertising tools has delivered value to nonprofits. Mobile grew another nine percent in terms of overall digital share. Using an out of date email list.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Consistency is key in fostering user adoption, as well as choosing elements that are not too far displaced from methods your workforce is already familiar with. Establish user profiles in your new system and associate those posts with the previous social accounts in question. This, in itself, is a great habit forming technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method. Technical or Systems Challenges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2023

3) Include Everyone In an effective Brand Leadership system, brand is defined as “What everyone ELSE believes you are.” 4) Find Content Everywhere Once you grasp your Brand Delta and are actively tackling it, it’s time to consider content. Through the lens of content, brand building is actually audience building.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

But there is a slight error in that line of thinking as it restricts the progress that comes with adoption of new practices, techniques, and technology. Normally, leaders are so involved with leading that they lose track of the trench workers and are unfamiliar with their systems and processes. You know what I mean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. It is used to improve content, messaging, and engagement on specific channels. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

Crowdfunding is a popular method because if it’s done right, your campaign will go viral and people will hear about it. After narrowing down your list of companies, make sure your platform has the following features: an easy user interface, customizable pages, an email system, social media trackers, etc.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. This digital marketing content directly impacts the success of your online fundraising strategies. Your digital strategy defines how you use online marketing. Offline goals and campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. How do you apply these two methods? Data from system.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

Non-game social platforms like museums should use game design techniques to make these institutions more successful at supporting user happiness. If not, the game becomes a crutch, a patch on a system that exacerbates our dependence on extrinsic motivation. This is not an argument that is specific to museums. What about learning?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. They should be able to see the faces of in-person attendees, shared presentations, physical documents handed out, content created during the meeting on whiteboards or flipcharts, etc.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Social Capital 2016 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 8, 2022

Maximum 5-10% Responsibilities: Source and engage a competitive talent pool for job openings Source potential candidates from LinkedIn, Salesforce communities and other niche platforms to create diverse pipelines of candidates Write and post job descriptions on Cloud for Good’s website, LinkedIn, and other platforms Craft and send personalized (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

Try the following methods to increase volunteer responses: . Giving volunteers facetime at member events might also serve as an effective recruitment technique within your association. . Volunteer check-in system. To foster your online community, consider creating some basic content to get the discussion going.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics. By implementing these methods and strategies, your nonprofit can retain its donors and build a loyal and engaged donor base. Start with a good newsletter.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

We’ve collaborated on some content. There are lots of other software systems out there, so no longer do you have to pay $20,000 to get Raiser’s Edge. Many mail houses and data systems. You can look up people in these different links, or you get software systems like Bloomerang who do it nightly for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

I've also been looking at examples from the corporate sector like the POST method from Forrester and thinking about adaptions for nonprofit. Will your content updates depend on any other resource or person? Do you have the systems and tools set up to track efficiently? Do you have the most efficient work flow and tasks in place?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. In many smaller organizations, where there are not enough resources for a high-end knowledge management system, people end up using their browser favorites or forward links to one another via email. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October.

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