Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 22, 2014

In her book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged. Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

In her new book, The Fall of the Alphas: The New Beta Way to Connect, Collaborate, Influence – And Lead , she shows why the Beta model is the key to both business and career success. The Beta model is taking its place. Fluid communication is facilitated and encouraged.

Collaboration 44

Collaboration Model Leadership Companies 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” Let’s start with a definition first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

At first glance, it sounds like user-generated content strategy but with a more disciplined story telling structure and intentional networked approach than getting your supporters to share your messaging points in their own words or activating the activists with social media or cause-related marketing.

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Storytelling Network Collaboration Classroom 63

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

The fact that there is no original recording by Beck of the Song Reader songs, no model upon which "covers" would be based, frees the reader to imagine the songs in any number of ways. These kinds of participatory projects can actually de-motivate because participants can''t possibly measure up to the display model.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Another is how funders like the Ford and Sloan Foundations have used our platform to facilitate millions of funding for digital infrastructure research. Few tech platforms have both a successful business model and investor agreements that allow them to shift power directly to their community. There are many potential pathways.

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Platform Build Open Source Profit 106

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Our board members can facilitate personal introductions to our professional leadership. And the way that I’m going to talk about these case studies is the purpose, the structure, and the outcome of each. And I would say this is a pretty replicable model, right? They can help with follow-up. It’s how my brain works.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. There is no better way to structure your thinking that the POST which stands for People, Objective, Strategy, and Tools. Click to download worksheet. And everyday until….

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2007

But today I started thinking about some of our design influences, and how we got into this thing in the first place. There are two attractions/experiences that heavily influenced our early thinking: Tomb (Boston), and Adventure (COSI Columbus). So we focused on designing for maximum throughput with small groups.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all don’t know this about Steve, but he has backed every harebrained scheme I’ve ever had since day one and continues to encourage me as a professional and thereby encouraging all of the communities that I influence as professionals in our sector to just show up and be ourselves and do the darn thing and do the best work we can.

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Management Work Video Slides 89

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. What if visitors could stream into the museum, with the expectation that at some point they would encounter a staff member who could facilitate the purchase of admission? Get rid of the admissions desk. In a more 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2017

The opportunity for nonprofits is to create campaigns that facilitate deeper engagement and keep the following new rules in mind: The game has changed: Citizen movements play an enormous role in leading social change. People want meaningful participation, not a ladder of one-off actions.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

In today’s connected and peer driven world, it’s not the quality of the idea alone that creates change, but how change makers coordinate the masses to tell their stories, cast votes, influence policies, and shape public opinion.

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