Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

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Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It’s a design challenge.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Community Managers ensure successful engagement and participation on a new platform by facilitating discussion, modeling behavior, and supporting leadership development. Community Managers provide key facilitation that empowers participation and engenders trust. What do you think?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate. Communication Fitness : How to facilitate conversations, conduct effective collaboration, bring value to customers, and lead productive meetings.

Leadership 58

Leadership Evaluation Brain Business 58

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

Planning Ahead and Outlining Goals Facilitates Long-Term Success. Consultants offer external knowledge that can often provide a new perspective to your organization. To get the most out of Salesforce, your organization will need to know how to use it to its full potential. Customers offer four tips for doing just that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Consequently, traditional frameworks and tools focused on organizational branding, production models, capacity-building, and competitive strategy don’t work as well in this new paradigm. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place?

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Membership programs take many forms: flat fee models with standardized benefits, tiered models with varying benefits by tier, and something in between. Knowing which membership model is right for your organization depends not only on your organization’s mission but also its budget and donor base. Target audience. Member portals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The program hosts a delegation of women who work in the tech industry to share their knowledge and skills with women-focused nonprofits, startups and girls empowerment programs in developing countries and in the US. Here’s how Kanika facilitated the exercise. She modeled reading hers.

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Peru Exercise Empowerment Local 79

.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

Identify staffers who can be your IT ambassadors and fill these significant roles: Strategists Strategists are the visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers who inspire curiosity throughout the organization. Strategists are visionaries, facilitators, and problem-solvers.

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Collaboration Digital Build Organization 44

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Guide "change" initiatives with repeatable success by using the reliable three-step change model. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

Arts 40

Arts Leadership Change Change Management 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

Note from Beth: At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session.

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Training Train Design Tech 59

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 31, 2018

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Guide "change" initiatives with repeatable success by using the reliable three-step change model. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

Arts 40

Arts Leadership Change Change Management 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. We can do better!

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Accessibility eBook People Copyright 135

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. Day 4 of the Train the Trainers E-Mediat was designed and facilitated by the capable SMEXbeirut Team – including Jessica Dheere , Mohamad Najem , and Naeema Zarif.

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Social Media Media Technique Tunisia 93

Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Guide "change" initiatives with repeatable success by using the reliable three-step change model. 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 Change Management Knowledge Arts 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 5, 2017

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Guide "change" initiatives with repeatable success by using the reliable three-step change model. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

Arts 40

Arts Leadership Change Learning 40

ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

What are the tactics and structures one must incorporate into their nonprofit models to ensure they are doing their due diligence to collaborate and share resources with nonprofit agencies of all racial and ethnic make-ups? Implications for the nonprofit sector.

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Community Build Minnesota Collaboration 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

And while this model is describing individual behavior, individuals make up organizations – so I think it is important for people working in organizations to understand, whether they are the executive director or the social media manager. I was even lucky enough to coax Nancy into an impromptu role play to model some of the techniques.

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Technique Training Train Learning 127

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2016

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Guide "change" initiatives with repeatable success by using the reliable three-step change model. 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 Change Management Knowledge Facilitation 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. You did great.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ECB involves a series of steps taken by an evaluator (internal or external) to build evaluative knowledge and skills, create a culture of continuous learning and accountability, and make resources readily available. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. Create a written plan.

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Evaluation Program Attitude Nonprofit 52

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 24, 2016

The book teaches you how to: Leverage your current technical knowledge to increase the rate of innovation. Guide "change" initiatives with repeatable success by using the reliable three-step change model. Sees the role of a change leader as a facilitator of intelligence and not as the keeper of all knowledge and power.

Change Management 40

Change Management Knowledge Arts Facilitation 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers.

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Social Media Learning Community Media 102

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

During the diplomatic conference, Bookshare was the most-cited model of what other countries could hope to achieve with the Treaty. As a result, the Treaty closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States.

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Accessibility Celebrate United States Copyright 194

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

Such spaces offer great benefits for collaboration, transparency, knowledge sharing, learning, creativity, and team building. Their staff spent a day with a facilitator and came up with some strategies to change their way of working that balanced excellence without excessive work hours and stress. But there are challenges, too.

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Open Work Global Collaboration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning.

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Learning Work Knowledge Management Knowledge 98

Gyrus

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Not too long ago, all the rage in our industry was shifting focus to the disruptive business model. Whenever there is a long-standing construct, it seems that someone comes out of nowhere and flips the model on its head. Imagine a comprehensive approach to facilitating once a day training within a short time window.

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Industry Learning Environment Training 74

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. We were encouraged to share what we knew, and she demonstrated that she would listen and potentially carry on our knowledge to others. I avoid them.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Forj

JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition. Further, they can understand their own knowledge and areas of improvement that they should seek to alleviate. What is the importance of eLearning assessments?

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eLearning Course Test Knowledge 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. It’s a revolutionary concept to scale the effectiveness of one-on-one tutoring. MOOCs are appealing because they offer the possibility for continued, advanced learning at zero cost, allowing students, adults, and professionals to acquire new knowledge and skills.

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Analytics Google Digital Free 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2012

NetSmart is Howard Rheingold’s latest book. It synthesizes his 30 years of experience if being a model digital citizen and what he has learned from asking other this simple question: How to use social media intelligently and mindfully? Lately, I have been working in far flung places which means long, very long airplane rides [.]

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Online Social Media Attention Chapter 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2011

The process encourages stakeholders describe user profiles and what the site needs to meet their needs. Chris, who is a talented designer and visual facilitator, used a variety of techniques to help us brain storm, discuss, and flesh out the user scenarios. Three hours never went so fast.

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Online Learning Process Design Site 94

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

We have such a deficit of knowledge about how we came to be where we are. ” Without that knowledge, we misinterpret, we misunderstand what the manifestations of racial bias means today. With that knowledge, we can look for new ways to share what we know between each community. Take the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.

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Interview United States History Law 120

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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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We made a “playbook” outlining our systems and platforms and shared it so that our program model could be duplicated in other areas. Yet, we have found the strength of our team sits beyond our domain expertise of community feeding, and into our ability to serve as a facilitator and mediator between diverse stakeholders in San Francisco.

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