Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

The problem is that everyone is drowning in unnecessary work and inefficiencies that prevent them from focusing on the work that drives results. Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Eliminate the 58% of employee time per day spent on “work about work” instead of being productive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

While I did a pretty thorough participant assessment survey before finalizing the content, the instructional design and creating materials, I always like to get a group understanding of the learning goals and get people ready to learn. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How do we deal with different payment methods? Then, there are plenty of opportunities to make the most of your tracking results. Tracking call results. Listen for matching gift asks during calls and provide guidance to improve techniques. Gift confirmation: Success! How do we close the deal? Provide feedback as needed.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 24, 2021

This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. There is no greater value a book can give than the experience of trying something and seeing immediate results. million copies around the world.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

Training should inform your donors of the goals of your organization and provide instructions about the task that each volunteer is going to complete. Show them proper techniques for each job and inform them about what they can expect during their time volunteering. Here are seven tips to help you retain your volunteers: Communication.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2021

This new edition addresses the specific needs of high school and college students , teaching them readily actionable time-management methods, techniques and strategies. There is no greater value a book can give than the experience of trying something and seeing immediate results. million copies around the world.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 18, 2023

Direct Mail Email Events In one 2022 study , traditional direct mail sent in a letter-sized envelope resulted in a 112% ROI. Our plan is twofold: We’re working on relocating existing plant colonies, and we’ve accelerated our research into propagation methods that will shore up declining numbers of plants. You can help!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

I don’t know for sure, but I can show you how to answer that question for yourself using the good ol’ scientific method and Google Analytics. Yes, the same technique that ultimately brought us things like space shuttles and smartphones can help you increase your online donation rates (no beakers or Bunsen burners required).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The last face-to-face session, in fact, is participants sharing the results of their experiments. Here are some reflections on the instructional design: 1. I have been using human spectra gram , a technique I learned from colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

What are some techniques and tools for interactive presenting? There are different methods of incorporating audience feedback depending on the format of the panel or session. And, if you want to present something in a instructional way, how can you incorporate interaction without it being a confusing learning experience?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. The choice of method for transferring and exchanging knowledge will depend on the audience and the message [but] knowledge is most effectively exchanged when using multiple methodsâ?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Search engines constantly scour the web for information using this method -- but bots are also used by those nasty folks on the web that like to steal your information or trash your website. Malvertising and toxic web search results will be on the rise. leads to malware installation. Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Are the results different? Is anything interesting or surprising in your results? Tagging is an open and informal method of categorizing that allows users to describe web resources with keywords.

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