The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

In the context of this column, growth is not about structured acquisition of new knowledge or skills but focused on learning to apply knowledge in unexpected ways and stretching boundaries of comfort. This way of thinking is reflected in your actions and demeanor, modeling behavior for those around you. What Is Growth?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Social enterprise models may well offer an answer. Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models? These social enterprise efforts can add a business model by creating sustainable revenue. Defourny et al.,

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Don’t get us wrong. That’s our big goal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 25, 2022

Leaders need to evaluate their leadership approach to ensure the style employed is designed to positively influence and empower their staff, promote success, and build collaboration. Kanter & Sherman remind us that respect, kindness and compassion must be modeled from the top-down in order to become an organizational norm.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2022

While succession planning is not a new phenomenon, it is rarely focused on the executive level and more commonly practiced for board leadership replacements. Many of those that serve at the executive level and have been in the sector for decades will at some point seek retirement. Recommendations. Collaboration. One team = one dream!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

A lot of practice on how to move quickly when a disaster strikes. Here’s a couple of takeaways, but expect some more practical, how-to posts in the next few weeks. Listening in Practice. So we offered to co-lead a session on listening in practice. They had social content. Here are my notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The NetTalks series , which includes five sessions, is intended to spark a meaningful conversation around alumni engagement and supporting a broader community practice of effective alumni networks. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice. The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Color theory, golden ratios, and hierarchy principles are rehearsed and practiced in design school and written about in magazines over and over again. As designers, we practice the rules until they become second nature. What were structures in places at the time? . We often think of design as objective and fundamental.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

And this kind of nepotism frequently backfires because board members ideally should possess three of the four Ws: wealth, work, wisdom, and wallop (the ability to influence others). As CEO, I practiced servant leadership, which enabled me to build an empowered management team.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Don’t get us wrong. That’s our big goal.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, if a nonprofit organization operates health clinics inside public schools, the Advisory Board might be made up of pediatricians, family physicians, and nurses, who could advise the Governing Board on how the model could best operate to meet families’ needs. Advisory Boards Need Structure. The most likely reason is time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. The report doesn’t just leave with current practice, it also covers some scenarios for the future. Seeds of the Future: Connected Citizens Today.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can. The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center. Don’t get us wrong. That’s our big goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Guest blogger, Patti Anklam , author of Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World , explores the role of organizational leadership in a network world. The formal organization is represented by the (usually) hierarchical organization structure. Photo by Eric Eugene Kim.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Following the event, he had some very helpful insights to share, especially about crowdsourcing, an increasingly popular and effective practice for spurring new ideas and innovation. But, I’m optimistic – I am seeing good models of this today which can be applied by foundations in their work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 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. Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2018

Some of the findings in this year’s survey included the importance of having leaders with digital experience, the connection between well-structured teams and outcomes, the challenges in restructuring digital teams, and the gap between the value organizations place on supporter engagement and how they are prioritizing managing and tracking it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. Question : How has social media influenced the landscape for salespeople and storytelling?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The CEO, Tony Hsieh, believes that happy employees influence the quality of service the company provides. When you walk into Zappos, the first thing you notice is the unique structure of the building. Still, I think libraries and nonprofits can learn from Zappos’ unstructured and unconventional practices. Key Takeaways.

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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. Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. Question : How has social media influenced the landscape for salespeople and storytelling?

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

Influencers are found, partnerships bloom, social media conquered, marketers consume. ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. A single model can cost millions of dollars.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

The CEO, Tony Hsieh, believes that happy employees influence the quality of service the company provides. When you walk into Zappos, the first thing you notice is the unique structure of the building. Still, I think libraries and nonprofits can learn from Zappos’ unstructured and unconventional practices. Key Takeaways.

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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. Beta companies are communities, not armies,” she writes.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

For many donors, your nonprofit’s website provides their first impression of your organization and subsequently influences how they’ll interact with your organization going forward. Internal management consultants help nonprofits develop their organizational structure. How to establish a working relationship with a consultant.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

I believe that the appetite for risk is very much a cultural norm that is influenced by the price of failure and the cost of experimentation. I often hear people say that [the] cloud is just the old time-sharing model used in the mainframe era. The only practical answer to how you will survive the cloud is to learn how to surf it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. What evidence do we need to influence politicians that games can help extend learning of science beyond schools? People and policy is often first influenced by compelling stories. What are your thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2009

I've been re-reading Patti Anklam's book, Net Work: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Networks at Work and in the World which covers the many different forms of networks and how they work. It covers different models for purpose, structure, style, value creation, design, leadership, and change management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” I did an interactive master class on networked leadership and the practices of becoming a networked nonprofit for over 300 nonprofits seated at round tables as the last session of the day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. Question : How has social media influenced the landscape for salespeople and storytelling?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The challenge has to do with organizational beliefs and work styles. Whether it be a widely held belief that measurement practice is not worth investing resources. Or a practice that swings the other away where there is an excessive investment in collecting gobbly gook data to appease a funder. Tips for Making the Switch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While these results seem relatively straightforward on the surface, structuring an online campaign around them proved more challenging than anticipated. 3. Do you have a model for a ladder engagement? Does your organization have a ladder of engagement model that you use to inform your strategy and how you measure success?

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2010

The model consists of a four-step cycle: Learn: The act of reviewing the external environment in which the organization exists. " Align: Ensure the organizational management and governance practices are tuned to support the work to be done. Tags: Influence Internet Strategy Recommended Reading. Learn, etc.:

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. Question : How has social media influenced the landscape for salespeople and storytelling?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

And, the newest installment in the series is equally good, informative, practical and actionable. Salespeople should, therefore, invest the time to learn how to do it well, and then practice it, so they can master it. Question : How has social media influenced the landscape for salespeople and storytelling?

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