Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. Next, to run your most effect meetings , Jacobs says you should have everyone follow these four rules : Turn off all devices. Building an outrageously talented team. Catalyzing electric meetings. Only one person talks at a time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

When thinking about adding mobile/online polling to a training, you have to think like an instructional designer for it be effective. Help the participants narrow down topics to discuss or work in small group exercises (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). In other words, to what end?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words and stick with them for the coming year. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 6, 2024

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. Just as you use CTAs to drive mission support, they can be equally as effective in recruitment emails. Use automated personalization tools. Highlight value proposition.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But a recent show during New York Fashion Week (NYFW) focused on inclusion, Introspective Innovations , highlighted what might be the greatest lesson digital designers can take from fashion: to create an effective design solution, listen most closely to those experiencing the design “problem.”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. These stories reflect more than 222 interviews with leaders–172 leaders interviewed for the original True North book, and more recently 55 interviews for the new book.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 19, 2021

Three effective ways to become the trusted source of information in your industry. Articles, tips, and recommendations – Offer articles and other content including résumé writing tips, interview techniques, job search ideas, and tips on social networking. Provide a one-stop-shop for information sharing.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

For instance, EveryAction’s unified CRM combines all of your digital and development tools for more efficient and effective fundraising. Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

It's here On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Beth Kanter describes the strategies she uses to teach digital immigrants in non-profit organizations how to use Web 2.0 strategies to communicate and collaborate more effectively. Tools and techniques are abundant, but there's truly an embarrassment of riches.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

This article goes beyond basic strategies and delves into advanced techniques for effectively engaging board members in fundraising activities. Tips for conducting a skills and interest assessment include creating a survey or conducting one-on-one interviews.

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Strategy Fundraising Skills Sample 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. In light of the pandemic, I’ve been using different questions that allow people to reflect how things have changed and focus on coping techniques. Here’s a write of this technique.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Decades before the dawn of digital ads and social media, advertising legend David Ogilvy penned his seminal book “Ogilvy on Advertising” sharing hard-won lessons on how to effectively persuade consumers. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. In Beyond the First Click: How today’s volunteers build power for movements and NGOs , we report on effective strategies for engaging high-level volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

It is a simple technique: 1) notice the habit; 2) Ask yourself what you are getting out of it in the moment. Changing just one bad habit can have a halo effect on other parts of your life in and outside of work. This notion comes from the work of Justin Brewer, Ph.D The Importance of Accountability and Habit Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Have a clear, linear chain of cause effect. Brennan shared some of the core techniques of developmental evaluation which included: 1. Key Informant/Stakeholder Surveys and Interviews. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. Based on a logic model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. intense days of meetings. The design incorporate many interactive learning techniques to ensure that participants were actively learning and sharing, and not falling asleep!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

There are several effective free techniques to grow your email list using the current digital assets and online properties your organization already has. Optimizing entails determining the best location for your email signup widget and the most effective language to drive the strongest signup activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

For each group, I had them create a spectra-gram and interviewed them and gave advice on next steps. Having a metaphor, made it easy. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. I play a little PowerPoint Karoke. Ellie taught a great trick.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 96

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

to give the different donor personas names Here is Animal Advocate Annie: Age: 35 Gender: Female Location: Urban or suburban area Occupation: Marketing professional Income: Middle to upper-middle class Background: From your survey and interview data you found: Annie has always had a deep love for animals and has grown up with pets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Marcelo set up the overall context: How can NGOs effectively engage donors online in an ever-growing age of complexity and connectivity? Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques. Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

I’ve been curating resources on training techniques and capacity building over at scoop.it I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller. This book will help. Brilliance by Design by Vicki Halsey. and discovered this book in the stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The joyful funeral idea really resonated and promoted a discussion about killing off some less effective projects and activities to make room for social media. One of the highlights was to observe David Wilcox’s new technique. Here’s an interview he did with me and Steve Bridger after the session.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When your mission is effecting positive change it’s sometimes easy to overlook that at its heart a nonprofit is still a business model, with all the same ways of failing. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Have several interviews before you offer the job. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Communications flows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2011

What do time management techniques and good habits look like in an age of connectedness? I stumbled across the Pomodoro technique which is very similar to time boxing (assigning discrete blocks of time to a particular task and using a timer), but the method also gives you some ways to prioritize work. Photo by TBN98.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Stress reduction techniques. Effective team work habits and communication. Productive and effective meetings. We are on a mission to identify and interview people who work for nonprofits about their stories of scaling self-care in their organizations. Managing technology and information overload. Mindful Leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith. The book is available on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Both conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society goals. Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

This is where Jason Lewis steps in to provide valuable insight during his interview in episode 89 of The sgENGAGE Podcast, Developing Fundraising Talent. It is the tendency for nonprofit organizations to get in the habit of using very effective new acquisition techniques that generate high volumes at a very low costs to acquire initial gifts.

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? How do you recover from burnout with effective wellness habits for nonprofits? Get Registered Now for Free.

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Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I interviewed the team about how they work together and their recent viral video contest. How do you all collaborate or work together effectively? techniques -- blog, viral video, etc. How do you find the time to incorporate these new techniques into your communications plan? Fantastic!???

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