Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Does your work at a nonprofit include facilitating meetings or trainings? Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? I’ll be sharing tips and techniques on how to generate ideas or “brainstorming” techniques. It can also be used to create work norms or processes.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 11, 2016

What Business Application Training Accomplishes. In corporate training programs, often the focus is strictly on compliance. ” Well, I am more than happy to relay it here: when you call and you reach someone’s voicemail and are in the process of leaving a callback number. Problem Solving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Join me for a FREE Webinar: Training Tips that Work for Nonprofits on Jan.29th I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 29th at 1:00 PM EST/10:00 AM PST. I use a simple structure to design: before, during, and after.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

Objection 1: Bias in Bias out One of the most significant concerns with GPT models is the potential for them to reflect and perpetuate biases present in the data used to train them. These include techniques such as debiasing and adversarial training, which aim to reduce the impact of biased data on the model’s output.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. Volunteer management is the process your organization uses to create your network of volunteers. Saves time and money.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. Within our own Bloomerang community we celebrate two nonprofits that are keeping local news alive, 90.7

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

AI is the process of using computers to help perform tasks automatically that could previously only be done by humans. To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The heart and soul of the toolkit are the worksheets and processes for problem solving. The worksheets are categorized by what the team or organization hopes to achieve. There are several tools in each category, with each linking to a case study, worksheet and some process notes: Look ahead. Develop a clear plan.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I just finished doing a training for Open Society Institute media and information coordinators on social media with colleague, David Sasaki , from Global Voices. Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. I think this process is important to make the final opening up happen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

When I facilitate training, I use analog and digital tools and materials. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects. Brainstorm: Methods for generating new ideas – recombining, adding, subtracting. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 1, 2015

Refers to data sets so large and complex that traditional database tools are not able to manage or process the data. Growth in big data and its related needs/problems has fueled growth in the discipline of data science. The process of identifying, correcting, and/or removing corrupt, inaccurate or outdated records from a database.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The project includes face-to-face training , webinar , as well as one-on-one coaching provided by the expert team at SpitFire. She encouraged the group that they could started tweeting five or ten minutes a day. (Here’s step-by-step process that you can use over 6-8 weeks to establish good practice). Content Curation Primer.

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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. This gave me an excuse to look at different types of peer learning exercises and facilitation techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. Mobile learning.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. Make appropriate training available.

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Gyrus

JULY 21, 2016

Continuous learning is an established persistent learning process, designed for bolstering the knowledge and skills of your workforce over time, and presents itself in many forms. This may lead to developing processes that can inevitably improve departments and organizations as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space. The point is that we learn best by teaching what we have learned and interacting with others to share ideas and work through problems. Increase Knowledge Capture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Before you can fully dive into the event planning process, you need to know what it is you hope to achieve and determine how you will measure success or failure. . In the planning process, be sure to put the online event elements away for a second and pay very close attention to the set up for the physical event details. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. With a small amount of time, focusing on one person’s actual problem takes less time.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

But all the content in the world can only get you so far when not paired with real life circumstances and the experiences of someone who has undergone the difficult processes in their infancy. Seeing processes first hand can be the connection point required to finalize the learning with individuals, as this can be the way they best learn.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2019

View every problem as an opportunity to grow 17. Explain the process and the reason for the decisions you make 50. Encourage personal growth and promote training, mentoring and external education 56. Tailor your motivation techniques 61. Celebrate your employees' successes, not your own 12. Be visible 15. Be decisive 20.

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Gyrus

JUNE 9, 2016

In particular, I highlighted six statements of Industry professionals and paraphrased what that meant to problems they experienced with their LMS providers. Below are the issues portrayed and mitigation techniques: Difficult to Formulate Content: In less user-friendly systems it is important to design content with the implementation in mind.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Don''t micromanage Don''t be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company''s strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The whole process from idea to seeing it on a bookstore shelf was 30 months. In that chapter, I discuss several tools to help you legitimately enhance the emotional content of your story, and several techniques to make sure that emotion doesn’t become unfairly manipulative. But that’s only because it was my first one.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 24, 2018

And, if you are still seeking resolutions for this year, perhaps write down (and start working on) five to ten from the following list of ideal resolutions for leaders: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all (..)

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