Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Create a culture of knowledge sharing. Involve people closest to the problem. Make conversations transparent. Finally, Eggers and Kettl say that “our book is, in part, an argument for a new approach to delivering public value to people. Make boundaries flexible. Forge unity form diversity. Break down internal silos.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 14, 2022

Across two days full of interactive sessions, workshops, and hands-on training, I had the chance to meet members of my Chicago Ohana Salesforce group and connect with new people with similar passions, challenges, and solutions to share. Melissa Hill Dees and Sandi Zellner’s conversational session, “Have You Considered the Consequences?”,

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here!

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Bloomerang

JUNE 30, 2021

There was comfort in this knowledge. . Conversation after conversation led to the same conclusion: We were exhausted yet committed to sharing our truths with the hopes that they would inspire change. . Almost a year later, the book continues to resonate with so many people. I was clearly not alone.

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Candid

MARCH 9, 2022

Candid : What would you like people to know about your services and how you view your role in the community? They typically don’t have formalized knowledge of fundraising but are eager to learn. My role is to contextualize those tools and teach customers how to best use them. These discussions are a valuable service in itself.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 17, 2020

People attend professional networking events for a variety of reasons. Whatever the reason, people go to social networking and business networking events with the hopes of meeting a new person, or persons, with shared interests. . They’ll also teach you about the ins-and-outs of that industry and things to keep an eye on. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I’m inviting people to share their definitions, here and on social (and tag me); I’ll summarize your thoughts next week. But I think the big difference in sports is that people know what to look for. After 15 minutes, I felt I had enough knowledge to enjoy watching. Teach is a big one. Teaching is a core.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Enslaved people were so disrespected that those who enslaved them didn’t even tell them that they were free for months after the South had surrendered. When we teach history in the United States, we often skip the parts that are not so wonderful. That’s when I knew I wanted to help condemned people get to higher ground.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

And, there have been many spin-off conversations on other blogs as a result. There in lies the key to effective conversation sparking. It means that you don't assume that the your students, participants, stakeholders, or audience knows nothing and that your job is to fill them with knowledge. I understand Chris. Being a learner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

million people surveyed over 30 years through U.S. What knowledge and skills do you need to get to the next stage of your career? Diversity is the distribution of people you bring into your organization. Question: What are the five conversations so important for managers to use with employees to drive performance?

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field. Who are these people we talked with? The quotes in this article all come from these focus group conversations. and Canada about their technology use. Geography and Transportation. “In-person

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Conversations with essential vendors – Contact your provider and explain the situation. Mandy’s dynamic teaching style brings thousands of people annually to her presentations at conventions, trainings, and workshops, in person and online. Speak with your accountant to explore what “contract positions” entail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2021

This goes for existing board members as well, whose expectations may need to be reset as you recruit new people onto your board. Your Executive Director will be the one leading many conversations with the board. But uneven power dynamics can make it difficult at times to hold people accountable.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

To quote Dr. Maya Angelou, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” . With that knowledge we can reconstruct the entire brand relationship. How can you get to know these people better? Brian Solis .

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Experiment Donor Strategy Philanthropy 91

Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. At this time on a Sunday, most donors will be finished with their weekend errands and are likely available for a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It shows that attention is the sharpest during the first 10 minutes of the lectures, then plummets, and then gradually goes back up but not to the same level. That means talking non-stop for more than 10 minutes, people start to tune out. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

In essence, how we can think outside the box and be inspired to present knowledge, imagery, and ideas in simple, creative and intuitive ways online? Another session I enjoyed was a collaborative conversation about how one can possibly "measure" design. Here is the list: Desirability: Do people enjoy the site?

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 17, 2020

People attend professional networking events for a variety of reasons. Whatever the reason, people go to social networking and business networking events with the hopes of meeting a new person, or persons, with shared interests. . They’ll also teach you about the ins-and-outs of that industry and things to keep an eye on. .

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Relationship Network Create Industry 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2015

It is less about disseminating content and best practices and more about pulling ideas and knowledge in through many-to-many interaction. Peer: Shared knowledge and experiential learning that benefits from interaction between participants. In order to do that, you have to think like an instructional designer !

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. Bring your CFO and/or board treasurer into the conversation too. That’s why you have staff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, April 1, 2011 Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving? Manager of Knowledge Resources ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday! An important aspect of this is the opposite question: why do people stop making donations? As the old adage goes, "people give to people, not causes."

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Research People Giving Arizona 61

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

million people surveyed over 30 years through U.S. What knowledge and skills do you need to get to the next stage of your career? Diversity is the distribution of people you bring into your organization. Question: What are the five conversations so important for managers to use with employees to drive performance?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

While this year’s Summit focused on climate change, in line with the Climate Summit during the UN General Assembly and on the heels of the climate strikes around the world, there were many conversations applicable to every social good movement. Indigenous communities need to have a seat at the table. Dr. Ayanna E.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Many people suggested regular one on one meetings with colleagues. (I Read Fierce Conversations. Book group, conversation, whatever. Everyone can learn from others. We all need help to do this better.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Lead Organizers are planning an orientation next year for the many group organizers to connect virtually and also during the 22NTC Community Conversations. I knew that I had found my people. Fun-loving, willing to share knowledge and learnings, compassionate, open, and welcoming – the NTEN world had it all!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

For this project, participants were carefully vetted, avoiding organizations that were in a leadership transition, had other organizational priorities to address or did not have the capacity to apply the skills or knowledge. Her knowledge of the country and the culture made it easier to localize the curriculum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Rather than another potential recipe for information overload, content curation can be a method for self-directed learning that builds your expertise while enhancing your organization’s brand and content strategy. Content curation can empower us to learn more and use that knowledge to get deeper impact for our nonprofit’s programs.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cyclists sign up for the ride and seek out people in their network to sponsor their participation. One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. Use that to your advantage! Yes, they are!

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. Being a force for justice and arming young people with the courage and freedom to define their own identity. Any secondary interests? What surrounds me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Miriam who is a wizard at feeding and tuning her network was able to get an amazing thread of recommendations from her friends, but these recommendations were generative – pinging other people who added their own or other resources. People sometimes say, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Adam Goldberg (Socially Gold).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it. And, the more people you share the spreadsheets with, the more potential security risks there are. This keeps all conversations focused. We’ve even heard some customers say they paid up to $15,000 to do this!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

" That blog entry came about because she and I had a long conversation about what kinds of skills nonprofit technology providers needed, and what we felt was missing. I realize that we’ve been having this conversation ever since NTC used to be called the "Circuit Rider Roundup."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. We had a rich conversation about overall design – the process of vetting participants, participant expectations, and their commitment to do the work. For outcomes, we identified a few: NGOs share their knowledge with one another.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

I am a flitter, in and out of conversations, in and out of organizations. Like all people, my insides broil and burble with the stresses of life. And to end this month of positivity, I thought we could all think about all the amazing things are jobs teach us. My one colleague, Katelyn, asked how I came upon this knowledge.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

She's brilliant and funny and pushes people to get excited about higher math and the big ideas behind it. She was a free agent for a long time, until the beginning of 2012, when she joined the teaching staff of Khan Academy. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history.

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