Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

But there is really good news: there is a channel that is effective in reaching people for the first time across all age groups – one that is often over-looked – mainstream media. That’s right the news at 6 and 10, the local newspaper, radio news and other mainstream media matter.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Small nonprofits have to work harder at growing their following and most often the work of social media management is added to an already full job description. Instagram’s new algorithm will require top-notch visual and video content which most small nonprofits will struggle to create and curate. Yeah, right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

From there I signed us up for various Facebook groups and profiles and continued experimenting sites like Change.org and Care2. Our programs have started working social media outreach into some of their job descriptions, especially when their goals revolve around cultivating certain audiences.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2015

Skilled new media managers are essential for nonprofits to adapt quickly to advances in technology. Work colleagues and clients will greatly appreciate you taking 5-10 minutes to write and post a positive recommendation on their profiles. Experiment with at least one new social network. Write LinkedIn Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

At this year’s Council on Foundations conference in New Orleans, I had the honor of doing a mini-workshop for CEOs of Community Foundations as part of a half-day pre-conference session organized by the Knight Digital Media Center called “Digital Strategies for Community Foundations.” This takes patience.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Defining Digital Literacy. A United Front.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood. Chris Hughes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2016

A public relations firm may offer a nonprofit discount, but with the assumption that they’ll get to rub noses with other high-profile supporters at your annual gala. HIRING NEW STAFF. Look at the skills they have and the skills they want. These aren’t reasons not to work with a vendor. This matters more than you think.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Every day, Millennials like me are turning to social media on their mobile devices, tablets, and desktops for information on the latest tools, news, resources, gadgets and opportunities to make our lives easier and better. For reasons such as this, we’re often coined “Gen Why?” Extend your reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Surfrider Foundation , profiled in the book, by gathering research about what motivates its audiences and through what channels and having a strategy session with staff to map out the different levels of engagement and metrics for conversion. One might think that great content curation that gets results is a full-time job.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Over the past week though, there have been little glimpses of happiness amid the disasters, scandals and economic bad news - stories about the CNN Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Impact. Today, she offers hundreds of children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out through free schooling and job training."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Do you have the news clippings of major events in your files? News release mentioning the benefactors. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. Plug donor skills into the work. Files: Is your organization the holder of the official record of something?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

A number of nonprofits are already doing an incredible job of this—and you can easily follow their lead. By changing the presentation of Fanta’s story each time they shared it on their website and Facebook profile, PIH made the content feel fresh and engaging each time. The page includes several storytelling graphics.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Share The Bad News Of course its much easier to share good news with your employees, but its perhaps even more important to share the bad news. If revenue is down, or if youve lost a large customer, or if a new competitor has entered the market, let your team know. Dont keep your team in the dark.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2014

Some early adopter large nonprofits are hiring multiple new media management staff—one or two to manage social media campaigns, another to spearhead mobile efforts, and yet another to pioneer the rise of smart TV. LinkedIn (4 hours): To share two to three posts weekly, maintain your personal profile, and participate in LinkedIn Groups.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 18, 2010

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Plan Monthly Job Learning Days Having your employees learn more about what their fellow employees do is invaluable. When everyone knows how each job/position on your team fits together, your team can accomplish so much more. Its best when they meet in their respective offices/cubicles.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Saturday, September 18, 2010 How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills Here is this weeks book recommendation. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place? And, the eBook is free!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. Posted by Eric Jacobson at 8:01 PM Labels: Leadership Books , Leadership Skills , Management , Motivating Employees 1 comments: davidburkus said.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. It all depends on what that leader does or doesnt do.Good management and leadership skills can be learned.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 6, 2022

Ok, so where do you find major donors, especially if you’re new and you don’t have a big donor base yet? The bad news is that there’s not a list of rich people somewhere that you can access and just get the names. Where do I Find Major Donor Prospects? In fact, targeting people based on their wealth is just a bad idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2007

While profiling the lives of Dance Dance Revolution addicts might be entertaining, I'm more interested in considering how the ubiquity of addictive play impacts the extent to which gaming is an educational activity. Addictive games allow us to wallow in skills we already have, to set our brains aside awhile and just do.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. com , Inc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Recently both LinkedIn and Facebook dropped their integration with Twitter indicative of a trend – a maturing of the Social Web, if you will – where automated tweets or updates are generally frowned upon as they tend to be formatted poorly, lack authenticity, and clutter News Feeds on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Some early adopter large nonprofits are hiring multiple new media management staff—one or two to manage social media campaigns, another to spearhead mobile efforts, and yet another to pioneer the rise of smart TV. LinkedIn (2 hours): To share two to three posts weekly, maintain your personal profile, and participate in LinkedIn Groups.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. com , Inc.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2010

Positive feedback focuses on the specifics of job performance. Worse yet, without positive feedback, employees feel no sense that they are appreciated as individual talents with specific desires to learn and grow on the job and in their careers, reports Nicholas Nigro, author of, The Everything Coaching and Mentoring Book.

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NTEN

APRIL 15, 2011

Most serious professionals will have filled out a profile of themselves, which can be used to learn more about their interests, history, skills, experience and the people they know personally or professionally. And the most active networkers will have personal recommendations, written by their colleagues, on their profile page.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. And, having that job security helps to keep employees loyal. Third on the top five list is an employees opportunity to use his/her skills.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2011

A survey recently completed by the job-placement firm Manpower that found 84 percent of employees intend to look around for a new job this year, and that is up from 60 percent last year. It all depends on what that leader does or doesnt do.Good management and leadership skills can be learned. Both are excellent books.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 5 Questions To Ask At Your Next Employee Performance Review Here are five important questions you, as a manager and leader, should ask during employee performance reviews: What have I done to help - or hinder - your job performance? What do you want most from your job?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010 The Five Points Of Professionalism Heres more good advice from The Everything Coaching And Mentoring Book : Professional behavior on the job means that work habits are strong and consistent. It all depends on what that leader does or doesnt do.Good management and leadership skills can be learned.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Overall, I am very satisfied with my job at the company. My manager clearly defines my job responsibilities. How To Improve Your Internal Communication Skills This Week's Book Recommendation 3 Things Your Mission Statement Must Have Is Your Crisis Management Program In Place?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Dont Hire Someone Just Like You Despite the temptation to hire someone like yourself, hire someone to complement your skills --not to duplicate your skills. Managers often find it easier, more comfortable, or less threatening to hire someone with similar skills and work habits. Good post Eric.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2010

A mentor can benefit leaders new to their leadership role and they can benefit experienced and seasoned leaders, as well. A strong mentoring relationship allows the mentor and the mentee to develop new skills and talents, to build confidence, and to build self-awareness. Will the relationship have good personal chemistry?

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