Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

If your stress is being triggered repeatedly at work (or elsewhere) this can lead to burnout. ” As the above word cloud indicates, sometimes stress is triggered by other people at work, leadership, board, or co-workers. 1: Make Time Everyday for Reflection: Keep a Journal. How you manage stress triggers at work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Participants from a nonprofit work on their network map during the workshop. She said the workshop gave her the time to get started working on it and was confident that she’d be putting it into practice immediately. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

This is especially true for nonprofits like yours, who often have to work harder to compete for talent with larger corporate counterparts. As we review these techniques, keep your nonprofit’s current recruitment approach in mind and consider how these strategies can help achieve your recruiting goals. Create urgency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Calderoni explains that leaders must put character at the center of everything they do, and he explains that company culture is distinct from company character. Company character is the integrity, respect, and fortitude residing at the core of your culture. Calderoni : Historically, companies and the media focused on culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. We had some fun doing role plays with a partner to figure out their style and some reflection on how we needed to adapt. We did a little role play showing good listening techniques and bad listening techniques.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. It comes down to organizational culture. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The workshop was a tango dance between English and Spanish — and it worked! I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions. I like to teach a combination of online technical skills and leadership professional development which worked really well with this group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

discussed the issue in relation to remote working staff and how to address some of the common issues that hinder group and individual staff productivity. Another method is finding a “ Shultz Hour ” where you carve an hour before or after work for silent reflection, or maybe a Shultz ten minutes by closing your office door.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

It was also an opportunity for me to co-facilitate with in-country team, meet the NGOs and hear their stories first-hand, and learn a lot about modeling and adapting interactive training techniques for different cultures. Workshop Handouts work in Arabic and French. Quiet Reflection: Socoot. Localized Energizers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2021

The work can be difficult, staff is underpaid, and burnout levels are high. These issues often lead to a decline in employee work performance and may even cause staff to seek additional opportunities for employment. Burnout reduction/wellness promotion: Unfortunately, high levels of burnout often occur in nonprofit work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

This post summarizes how you can use session documentation and reflective practice to improve the content and delivery of your session. Here’s a couple of techniques that I try to use every time I do a workshop, presentation, keynote, or other instruction. Also humor, especially with props, works.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

To prevent burnout from taking over your nonprofit’s culture, passion, and productivity, you have to understand it. Fifty-one percent of Americans reported mental health challenges at work since COVID-19 began, and 30% are fearful to report their mental health struggles to their employer. A: Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I feel that my technology training for nonprofits work is more like a calling for me than simply a job or career. Some Reflections. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I have been leading some peer trainings with grantees. I also was honored to work side-by-side with esteemed colleagues Shiree Teng , Cheryl Contee , Ashely Boyd , and Dan Cohen. Packard socialmedia-lab-day 1-module 1. This is the gift of time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Most participants included CEOs of nonprofit institutions and foundations and have been working in the sector for decades. The group also included a couple of “next gen&# leaders as well as some experienced social media users in the nonprofit and foundation areas. And, that through this comes learning and insight.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Another way to do that is to spend some time working side-by-side with your employees doing their job with them. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” Another way to do that is to spend some time working side-by-side with your employees doing their job with them. Question : Can work ethic be taught?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2016

” While their answers and anecdotes were different, one simple technique or theme came across: “Stay connected to the source of your work.” That’s her cue to go out side for a walk, get away from the screen, and have some reflection time to think the impact of her fundraising beyond the dollars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through. ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

The same historical and cultural structures that have held back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in so many aspects of our lives are also mirrored in much of the nonprofit sector. In fact, while there are various acronyms for this work — ranging from DEI to EDI, EDIB, JEDI, you name it — I personally believe that inclusion comes first.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2017

I can think of many extraordinary innovators in the nonprofit cultural sector--people and organizations creating brilliant programs, site-based experiences, and products. Why aren’t more cultural organizations franchising, scaling, and replicating like comparable businesses? There are no NDAs in the nonprofit culture sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Reflection and Takeaways.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. Nothing is more frustrating than working for a manager who does not communicate organizational or community information. Adults learn best through reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

I participated in a meeting today at the Packard Foundation facilitated by the good folks at Monitor Institute to reflect on the work they've been doing over the past 18 months on network effectiveness. Working in an institutional setting is far more structured, formal, more face-to-face meetings, slower paced, and less porosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We need to integrate evaluation thinking into our everyday work so we can improve what we’re doing. Need a culture of inquiry, sharing what works, what doesn’t. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Evaluation should not be separate from what we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. This session was a high level view of what is happening in the ecosystem in which I do my work. The New Social Economy. When the people, formerly known as the audience, get to participate, you always learn something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For those of us who work on social media and networks, “content fried” is an occupational hazard. So, it is important for us to incorporate techniques in daily work life that reduce the chances of this happening. 3.) Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. I couldn’t have asked for a more authentic, culturally appropriate start to a workshop. The spiritual nature of the welcoming ceremony set the tone for a day of reflective practice for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Do we need to the whole hour to accomplish the same amount of work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Yesterday, I wrote a post thinking about how this relates to self-care from an organizational culture perspective. I want to keep a one-sentence journal, a technique developed by habit change guru Gretchen Rubin. What tiny habits have you started that make you happier and healthier at your nonprofit work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2015

And, every year when the calendar flips over, we embrace reflection and setting goals. People who work in the social good sector world are busy people, flitting from task to the next text or email. Too often, we can caught up on this endless slideshow that is our digital and mobile lifestyle. Leadership Mindfulness Reflection'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. Nothing is more frustrating than working for a manager who does not communicate organizational or community information. Adults learn best through reflection.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

Allen and Mitchell Kusy, a compelling read, packed with practical tips and techniques for both leading and helping others to learn how to lead effectively. Nothing is more frustrating than working for a manager who does not communicate organizational or community information. Adults learn best through reflection.

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