Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

This mode starts by preparing your organization to withstand system shocks by employing “steady state” Survive, which are proactive steps taken even when markets are frothy. When a shock (either internal or external) hits, your organization moves into “triggered Survive.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2014

Trained as a medical doctor, Watkins is now an honorary senior lecturer in neuroscience and psychological medicine at Imperial College, London and an affiliate professor of leadership at the European School of Management, London. Dogmas, myths : unchallenged and unspoken beliefs within a system. Stories : key bind narrative of culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Trained as a medical doctor, Watkins is now an honorary senior lecturer in neuroscience and psychological medicine at Imperial College, London and an affiliate professor of leadership at the European School of Management, London. Dogmas, myths : unchallenged and unspoken beliefs within a system. Stories : key bind narrative of culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Trained as a medical doctor, Watkins is now an honorary senior lecturer in neuroscience and psychological medicine at Imperial College, London and an affiliate professor of leadership at the European School of Management, London. Dogmas, myths : unchallenged and unspoken beliefs within a system. Stories : key bind narrative of culture.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Are you challenged by lecture-formats? Location: Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA. Winners will be crowd-sourced from conference participants and receive cash-awards on day 2 of the event. REGISTER here! Still unsure? Here’s 3 ways participants dive into the mix with the N2Y4 Conference structure: 1. Kick the tires. See you in San Jose!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool.

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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. Content Delivery Is Not Learning. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

This is true of any other type of systemic, biased thinking that gets in the way of true social benefit, equity, justice, and unity of purpose. Eschew lectures, educational pieces, self-congratulatory prose, and corporate speak. Management vs. non-management. Line staff vs. administration. White vs. person of color. Male vs. female.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

In short, why isn’t this a better incentive system? Recently, I’ve been exploring the range of unusual punch card incentive and loyalty systems. In February, I wrote about the complex and somewhat creepy system that Harrah’s casino employs to promote loyalty, but today I’m focusing on the lowly punch card.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Tech officers can use this to inform decisions about systems toward long-term impact. For example, if a tech officer knows that an organization wants to allow members to log into the site eventually, they may choose a different kind of content management system in the short-term so they can make this feasible down the line.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

The participants are the content – and the design of getting participants into small group discussions where we can discuss topics related to our work that we are passionate about and want to explore and learn. These discussions are not lectures or traditional panels and are participant driven.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

Do you constantly lecture yourself to work smarter? With Dropbox you create a folder system that keeps every document in its place. The system forces you to prioritize a few tasks rather than create an endless list that is impossible to accomplish, while still allowing you to “brain dump,” and get everything down.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Cause Camp is more than two days of lectures, it’s an experience dedicated to education, collaboration and inspiration to keep your (camp) fire alive. And he continues to write books, create fundraising training DVDs, and collaborate on systems like 100 Donors in 90 Days. Ask Without Fear!

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NTEN

APRIL 21, 2012

It's kind of hard to know if you're missing 100 name badges out of 2,000, so we clearly need a new system. Next year, we need a system where you can view your badge, make edits, and then get it printed right there on site. We print them back at the office and ship them to the hotel. NTCFail 3: Day of Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

I try to sprinkle these 50% events throughout the year – a lecture here, a webinar there – to make sure I’m broadening my perspective and getting a few sideways ideas. It’s a reminder that if our real goal is to build something radically new – a new data system, a community center, a society – we may need to get out of our own way.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

A lover, not a lecturer. Don’t say “I’ll call you” unless you mean it and have built a system to make sure you don’t fail. Everything is about the donor (what they need, want, and will likely appreciate) rather than about you (your needs, your ego, what you think donors should appreciate). A helper, not a hinderer. .

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

One national nonprofit I know had been working on putting together a measurement system for three years. Most organizations feel like they have to build a system from scratch and get so ambitious that the effort invariably stalls. Before you do anything else, investigate what you have at hand. Over-thinking It.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to connect with Colin Rhinesmith , Community Media Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Adjunct Lecturer for the Media and Culture Program at Bentley University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

During January, I review my work routines, systems, and rituals to redesign or tweak them to improve productivity. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. This year, I’m adding a technique from Gretchen Rubin, author of the Happiness Project to establish and track good habits on a monthly basis.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 11, 2010

When PID is kept in different buckets, it’s harder to manage and create customized communication -- like when mailing addresses and emails are kept in separate systems, due to legacy databases or department requests. . Love comes in many forms -- time, more employees, or more money for upgrading systems. During his 4.5

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

In this guest post, CUNY lecturer and former manager of the Guggenheim Internship program Michelle Millar Fisher makes a passionate argument for the end of unpaid internships. One of the most poignant signs I saw waved during the Occupy Movement was held by a young woman who politely advised The System to " F**k your free internships.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

This research may one day, reshape the conceptualization of the Learning Management System. The best instructors and course developers are able to evaluate how their student’s learn and cater their offerings to get the best out of the situation. Scientists have embarked on the challenge of truly determining how we learn.

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Forj

JULY 25, 2017

Moreover, I would add, CME conjures up images of physicians attending lectures. Titled “Learning to Lead in an Academic Health System,” the chapter provides an overview of the need for more emphasis on leadership training and finding leaders who have the right skills to lead. Turco spoke to her favorites: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2007

Today I had a brief training in learning how to use Breeze, a web conferencing system, for the webinar I'm doing next for Extension Professionals. I The group will be between 50-125, so it will be more of lecture, although I will definitely use the back-channel and instant poll features.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Victoria, British Columbia: How to Choose a Content Management System for Your New Website. Describing NetSquared events is difficult, because each one focuses on a different topic and has a unique flavor set by the organizing team. Instead of words, let me try a few pictures that will illustrate our community. Thursday, April 16, 2015.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Another perspective on the concept of social economy is that of Edgar Cahn, who suggests we have created two systems that are inter-related: the monetary economy and the core economy. She has written and lectured throughout the world about various leadership and management topics for the nonprofit sector. Sigel Press, 2007.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

Many for-profit corporations have experienced significant cost increases based upon documentation of processes, improved financial security systems – and the higher fees for external review. She has written and lectured throughout the world about various leadership and management topics for the nonprofit sector. Sources: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

The first session was the overview - interactive lecture. Some learnings from the simulation: It's good to set limits in choosing the tools and the point system helped. Understand your constituents belief system. If you had the first group work on the simulation exercise, they'd be uncomfortable. Is there a solution to it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. Linden Labs is a real case currently making its way through the United States federal court system. The article has some quotes from Rebecca Nesson, daughter of Berkman Center founder, Charles Nesson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

My expertise is database systems, having worked on my first database in dbase 3+ in 1989. I've also worked in the gaming industry and done a fair amount of technical training on large e-commerce and content management systems. Why did you start LoTV?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Environmentalists will lecture you much about how the polar bears on the Arctic ice cap are so hopeless that you’ll want to jump off the iceberg yourself or ignore the issue. Chip Giller launched grist.org in 1999 to counter the stereotype that all environmentalists were either dour doomsayers or holier-than-thou tree-huggers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

In my experience, lobby feedback systems generate three kinds of responses: Effusive, generic platitudes: "Great Museum!" An unresponsive system can't do that. I've worked at several museums where we gave educational program attendees surveys to fill out at the end of a workshop or lecture. Probably not. Can you remove it?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

A visiting lecturer inspired me when he challenged the class to, "think creatively … design an asthma intervention that has not been designed before." It is, rather, working with the system, specifically, government bureaucracies that have never known the word nimble. How did you get involved in this kind of work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

I was particularly eager to hear the afternoon lecture , Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation , by Charles Nesson at iLaw. They are also looking at how to bring this type of program into the school system in Jamaica. Photos of the slides. I'm pleased to report NO! Nesson gave this annecdote. "Take for example.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

By Claire Axelrad: Lifelong learner, listener, lecturer, lover, e’lucidator of all things philanthropic, passion-forward and peopl-centric. Don’t create a 2-class system. Fundraiser. On Twitter. Research shows the average nonprofit in the U.S. loses 70% of donors after the first gift. Personal notes. Phone Calls.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

Some of our best volunteers come from the County court referral system. One of the essays that inspires me most was this lecture that a computer scientist named Dick Hamming gave in 1986 called You and Your Research. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well.

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