Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2018

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2017

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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.orgSource

MAY 29, 2023

Keep the language positive, clear, and authentic Below are two examples: American Medical Association Diversity, equity, and inclusion at the AMA The AMA respects, welcomes, and celebrates all people and their diverse backgrounds. Create a more inclusive culture by providing DEI training to directors and staff.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2017

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the new book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2017

Is culture of philanthropy embedded in the way that everyone does their work? What is a culture of philanthropy? It is all about how to nurture a nonprofit organizational culture that has shared responsibility for fundraising among all of its people. But, does your entire organization treat it this way?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Skills Culture Leadership Authoring 40

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Confront problems quickly and openly using objective information. During the early stages of this relationship, teams may require assistance from a skilled facilitator to develop trust and discover a common language. You can set the stage for success by: Defining roles and responsibilities. Be clear about accountability.

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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. No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities.” When and how?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 15, 2016

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2015

"Connection is what transforms a dog-eat-dog environment into a sled-dog team that pulls together," says Michael Lee Stallard , author of the new book, Connection Culture. In addition, the five primary reasons connection cultures need to be a high priority are that employees who feel connected: Perform at the top of their game.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2023

Furthermore, the outdated model that worked well at one time—identifying a problem and creating a program designed to solve it—is giving way to new, muti-sector approaches to create public value.” Make data the language. Create a culture of knowledge sharing. Involve people closest to the problem. Knock down barriers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Format your tweets for easy reading. Don’t use uncommon abbreviations and always use proper punctuation and grammar.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

Today’s nonprofit marketers must be experts in learning how to shift their organizational culture towards a culture of philanthropy. This gets to the heart of the best practices that are needed to create a culture of philanthropy within anonprofit organization. Shifting the organization’s culture is a process, and it takes time.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 30, 2024

Although technology problems were urgent and frequently mission critical. The most challenging problems centered around culture. And our virtual communication skills were not up to the task of addressing those negative emotions. As the tech problems subsided, people became better at communicating through the small screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Impact Challenge ” is based on Google’s belief that artificial intelligence can provide new solutions to old problems and improve people’s lives. Automation and the Changing Demand for Workforce Skills: Blog post by Irving Wladawsky-Berger summarizing various studies about AI will impact workforce skills. Social Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

The subject matter, of course, the effective use of digital and networks that is holistic and that incorporates on culture change, innovation, and collaboration skills. Lack of shared definitions and shared language. Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing. Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. As a fast-growing developing country, this problem it’s quite real. It’s incredible to see thousands of small NGOs doing so much with so little resources.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand. Have people register for your event, then livestream the class to your participants so they can learn some new skills and recipes from the comfort of their own homes. Virtual wine + cheese-tasting. Peer-to-peer read-a-thon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

The first session focused on self-awareness skills. The second half used a communications style diagnostic called “ The Social Style Model ” which helps people learn how to improve their people skills by being able to understand their own communications style and those who are they are interacting with and then “flex.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. My dad is the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. They also enrich the community's culture, and they use cultural capital. That's cultural entrepreneurship."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

But we have these roadblocks that are unique to the culture of the nonprofit sector. The Roadblocks of Nonprofit Culture. Cultural Roadblock #1: No Margin For Error. Our problems go to 11. Cultural Roadblock #2: We Only Pay Lip Service to Consensus. The problem? We don’t do this very well. Look, I get it.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Creating a Request for Proposals can be labor-intensive, time consuming, and stressful, but it's a lot easier when you're not starting from scratch - so we've put together a template that you can fill out as you go, which already contains the structure, sections, and language you'll need. What makes your nonprofit different?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children.

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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? How do you start to tackle this problem? Sometimes the problem is the technology -- or rather, inappropriate technology. Sometimes the problem is training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

This slide show from Stephen Collins make me think about teaching Internet Skills Workshops for Nonprofits that I used teach over dozen or so years ago. " He talking about building shared language and understanding in order to successfully introduce a change (adoption of social media principles and tools) in an organization.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

In creative fields, “brainstorming” is not just a requirement of the job, it’s also seen as a very positive thing—it’s an uninhibited way to get your ideas flowing and come up with creative solutions to problems. Chances are, even if you have, that’s not your actual title (although we recognize some job descriptions do use this language).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

There is one problem with this design: Many of us find experimenting difficult. As a culture, we value answers over questions because answers allow us to take action faster, while asking questions makes us think. The short answer : One Fan Page with multiple languages using Facebook Targeting tools. . What are your thoughts?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2006

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture. The point of this post is not to try and persuade you that I am right but to start some debate that will help us all sharpen our Creative Commons skills. t predicted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 27, 2005

s mission is to address the problem of deforestation in Cambodia, with a focus on educating the public on conservation of natural resources. It was difficult to learn to the language at first! Although I come from a different culture, it doesn't hamper my work. Tell us about your work in Cambodia with the NGO, Mlup Baitong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2006

So, I volunteered some time to work with Emily Commerce and Lyre Calliope on researching and compiling the nonprofit directory on Second Life - which is not an easy thing do for a newbie avatar because my skills are still very basic, but easy because there aren't a lot of nonprofits on SL quite yet. and so I volunteered to take notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It will explain the problem that a widget may solve for a nonprofit blog, some examples of nonprofit blogs using them, and oh yeah, answer the age old question "What is a Widget?" Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

While the evaluation component of the report is focused on the extent to which these various projects promote science learning and behavior change among participants, the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

The reviewer called the storyline "intriguing" and described the player’s role as follows: “You are an archaeologist with a deep knowledge of Mayan culture investigating the demise of the last known Mayan family.” And where did I acquire this deep knowledge of Mayan culture? Most games grant players a certain amount of starter skill.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values. How to Spot a Great Story Sometimes even the most skilled fundraisers find it hard to spot a story that’s going to spur donors to give. Connect the story to the larger problem your donor will help solve with their gift. Were there setbacks?

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