Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For example, a world-class, professional basketball player will spend several hours each day devoted to the Learning Zone, such as by practicing specific moves, increasing their strength, or analyzing film. Modeling learning : Leaders often engage in learning behaviors but do so in private when others aren’t watching.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Development professionals employ six practices to be successful in their role. Embracing a long-term view of these practices not only unlocks your nonprofit’s growth potential, but also builds and reveals your own professional aptitude for organizational leadership. Your proposals serve to gain their interest and “buy-in.”

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

Whether patient fundraising is a new idea at your organization or your development team wants to evolve a long-standing program, the first question is a frequent and practical one. To explain why, let’s consider the two most frequently used tools: wealth screening and custom modeling. Rightfully so.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

I presented and facilitated a small group activity on rituals. Now that we know what the research says about the benefits of rituals, nonprofit leaders should view the creation and fostering of rituals as essential, whether for the entire organization, your department, or team. Having a workplace flexibility policy can facilitate it.

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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. This is where content that breaks down the practice into small steps is very useful to participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

The session will cover what to do before, during, and after leading an effective technology training and provide lots of practical tips that will help you design fun, interactive, and highly effective technology training workshops. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.” The Accelerated Learning Handbook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

Specifically lacking in research on community development are the practical steps towards diversity and equity. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Best practices for collecting actionable data. It sounds like they have adapted the Khan Academy model. Peer Instruction and the flipped classroom is a research-based, interactive teaching method developed by Eric Mazur at Harvard University in the 1990s. The instructor is Google Analytics Evangelist Andrew Cutroni.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 3, 2024

This platform relies on voluntary contributions from donors to provide their services to nonprofits in a “pay free forward” business model. Snowball emphasizes simplicity, customization, and integration to facilitate efficient fundraising. Pledge relies on an optional tipping model to cover operational costs and other fees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

If you want to get results, you need to think about instructional design and learning theory. And, there is no shortage of learning theories and research. As someone who has been designing and delivering training for nonprofits over the past twenty years, the most exciting part is apply theory to your practice.

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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. The lab does research on the relationship between physical fitness and cognitive function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. . Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Porter Novelli’s latest research on business and social justice shows that consumers, employees and other stakeholders want companies to acknowledge their role in systemic injustices and actively change the system. Leadership must model the kind of behavior that they seek in others and for their organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

But learning from adjacent practices can also be quite rich. The next exercise was a small group exercise that modeled the first step a small nonprofit might do to build an audience persona. As, incorporating secondary research is part of the process. One might think, oh no, this is impossible. There was a lot of snapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Model the Model. Do a little research and see if your peer executive directors are using social media or mobile as a leadership tool.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Somatic marker theory , developed by Antonio Damasio and other researchers, hypothesizes strong emotions guide behaviors and subsequent decision making. How does your business model incorporate today’s constituent perspectives? Do you have necessary facilitating internal systems, policies and procedures and controls?

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

After facilitating Salesforce’s first investment in Classy and a lasting partnership between the two companies, I became a Board Member and advisor to Classy in 2014. A: At Classy, we have a business model that prioritizes our four main stakeholders, which are our customers, our team, financial durability, and our community. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

The book begins with an overview on my multi-channel marketing is important and provides a summary of research data and examples of how nonprofit institutions are using multiple channels effectively as part of advocacy, fundraising, and community building. So, I’ve been practicing by creating visual notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Best practices for effective use of common social media tools: Facebook and Twitter. Next, participants did a self-assessment, using the maturity of practice model ( Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge. Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. We will have a monthly theme, which will include resources, discussion questions, and more.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby. To remedy this error, here are four things I've learned about facilitating brainstorming sessions. You did great. Vary the activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve? Click to see larger image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It takes time to develop a solid organizational practice in social media, so we wanted to celebrate those small victories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2013

Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. A model of generosity. Earlier this week, I woke up to learn that Dan had passed peacefully in his sleep at 89.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. His research shows that professional development learning experiences need to be as interactive as possible to boost retention. This can be handled by telling participants the facilitator will be checking in the group.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In this guide, we’ll review the top nine credit card processing solutions for nonprofits and best practices for choosing the right platform. Small nonprofit with fewer transactions: A pay-as-you-go or flat-rate model works best for these organizations. 30 Best Practices to Optimize Your Nonprofit Donation Page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The evaluator takes on many roles: facilitator, technical expert, and sometimes a shoulder to cry. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. Create a written plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

You can watch a facilitator give the group engaging ways to interact with one another and co-create content, but it’s often hard to see in the moment how those reflect intentional design choices, and understand how to use their approach in designing your own convenings. He tweets at @noahflower and edits the Monitor Institute blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

.” The backdrop is a movement to create “ Community News Leadership 2.0 ” and community foundations are big players in this ecosystem. I got to hear an overview of the ecosystem work that Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo and a presentation by Sara Goo, Senior Digital Editorial, Pew Research Center.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

Research about the physical space can impact learning, can be found here. The instructional design included different delivery methods: interactive lecture with slides and whiteboard, facilitation with sticky notes, small group exercises, posters, group discussion, self-directed activities, and self-directed online activities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2014

You know those research studies that make you want to immediately change your practice in some way? in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. This guest post was written by Steve Yalowitz, one of its authors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Publishers provide more than 80% of the thousands of books added each month to the virtual bookshelves of our online Bookshare library, under voluntary permission agreements modeled after the Chafee Amendment. One of our goals is to lower the cost of making an image accessible by at least a factor of ten.

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