Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Use the cycle of change to foresee and handle change-related issues affecting yourself, others, and business. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

tackling critical issues that are shaping the present and future of our country and our rights. I designed a 90-minute workshop focused on “Human-Centered Social Media Strategy” which teaches how to apply a simple design-thinking technique, creating personas, as the basis of your digital strategy.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 31, 2018

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Use the cycle of change to foresee and handle change-related issues affecting yourself, others, and business. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

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Arts Leadership Change Change Management 40

Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

We’ve rounded up a list of specific examples of virtual opportunities, organized by nonprofit issue area, that solve real problems and are easy to execute. Virtual actions that solve for urgent issues: FOOD BANKS. Urgent issues. Urgent issues. – Plan a weekly “teach in” series about COVID facts and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Last month, I was honored to present and facilitate an all-day workshop for nonprofit leaders at the Oregon Nonprofit Leadership Conference on how to activate a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace, based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

And it’s the best way I know to convey to non-development staff how important their role is in facilitating philanthropy. Are they relevant to today’s issues and what your donors care about? . Your job is to facilitate philanthropy , and you know donors require honesty, transparency, and relevance before they give.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Use the cycle of change to foresee and handle change-related issues affecting yourself, others, and business. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2013

The title was “ Peer to Peer Nonprofit Social Media Managers ” and we took a deep dive into organizational change issues that professional social media managers face. Teach for both the color-in-the-lines people (ie: guidelines, next steps) and the runs-with-scissors people. Lisa Bunker (@mutabilis) March 10, 2013.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Here are a few tips to follow to facilitate a smooth recording session: Warm up. She travels internationally to teach nonprofit professionals the tools they need to elevate their impact through events. Record your podcast. It’s time to sit down and record your podcast!

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VisionLink

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The National Breakthrough Network is convened and facilitated by VisionLink where practitioners learn from and teach one another. The result: more effective practices of service delivery within each participating partnership, and, a national voice of service providers working on common issues.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2017

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Use the cycle of change to foresee and handle change-related issues affecting yourself, others, and business. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2016

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Use the cycle of change to foresee and handle change-related issues affecting yourself, others, and business. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2016

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Use the cycle of change to foresee and handle change-related issues affecting yourself, others, and business. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

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Change Management Knowledge Arts Facilitation 40

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Obviously, you are welcome to vote for them, too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. We did this on Day 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. ” It might suggest the need for professional development in teaching skills of up managing or being more assertive.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

When we teach history in the United States, we often skip the parts that are not so wonderful. We have projects where we facilitate educational conversation around the legacy of this history through movies. All of those opportunities are waiting for anybody motivated to do something about these issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

My co-presenter for the plenary was the amazing Marcelo Iniarra , who is a digital mobilization pioneer and fantastic presenter/facilitator. The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. The official title of the session was “Donor Engagement in An Age of Complexity.”

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Their priorities range from facilitating book donation drives to supporting arts education to funding playground construction and family literacy programs. . They support organizations that are leaders in what they do, demonstrate innovation, and align and collaborate with others to achieve workable solutions to community issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

Last week, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the ultimate social media practitioner panel at the Social Media on Purpose Conference hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review. Trick= find the shark week for your issue. Trick= find the shark week for your issue. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students.

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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. I explained that the idea of looking at your aggregate networks was to look for gaps related to strategy – not facilitate communication about management issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2010

The new framing for this familiar issue is one of balance. He did this by teaching himself to be selfish and not respond. Greg Pass, CTO/Twitter, teaching new employees something called "Twittokinetics" and advises them to pay attention to what their doing, understand & own the problem & realize learning opportunities.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Here are a few tasks you might want to turn over to volunteers or recruit more volunteers for: Day-to-day office work or cleaning Door greeter roles Docent positions Event committee positions Event registration and ticketing Event set-up and clean-up In-kind donations collection Marketing and promotion tasks Fundraising tasks Teaching or tutoring.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. For me, one of the most valuable sessions was " E.R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets The Needs of Emerging Markets by Salesh Chutani, Jessica Rothenberg AAlami, and Akhtar Badshah. The book is available on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

They are teaching digital measurement best practices by connecting great causes with experienced mentors and motivated students. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Yesterday, I facilitated a hot topic workshop at the Healthy Communities Annual Conference hosted by the Search Institute in Minneapolis. As much as I could, if I got asked a question, I invited the younger folks in the room to answer and facilitated an inter-generational dialog. This week I put that into practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2009

We got into a discussion in the comments and she agreed to share some of her experience addressing this issue within her nonprofit organization. Social media teaches us that the best way to get the message out is to foster conversation. The post and ideas resonated with Holly Hight, a field organizer for Bread for the World.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Every day, people ask, and get answers to, questions about best practices , professional development , just - in - time technical info , whimsical resources , legal issues , and many other questions related to librarianship. Security issues. Now go forth and facilitate knowledge sharing! Some are huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. The video incorporates some slides from Angela Byron's excellent presentation, " Women in Floss " which also speaks to the dark side of gender issues in FOSS communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. Also, if you are writing about the same topics repeatedly on your blog, when a reporter is searching online for an expert on your issue, your posts may come up at the top of their search results. Blogs can help you work faster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2006

been facilitated by this blog. with art teachers on the issue of integrating digital tools into their instruction. The reflection question was about how the challenge of transfer - how will you take the skills you've learned today in powerpoint or photoshop or whatever the hell I was teaching and integrate them into your life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I saw a black board in the corner of the room, wheeled it over and wrote the key words of the presentation and shared my favorite advice about issues of incorporating technology into your instructional practice: "It isn't a matter of if technical glitches will happen, it's what are you going to do when they happen. What did I do?

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