Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I always try to do an extensive participant survey prior to the workshop to uncover the knowledge in the room and used a “living case study” technique. Participants become part of the workshop curriculum and share their experience – which seems very appropriate for a social media training. Morning Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. It is helpful to look at making the switch as an evolutionary process. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

I’ve been experimenting with a practice model that I’ve been using over the years and was able to crystallize some of my thinking into “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly&# that I’ve been testing for designing training workshops and peer learning projects. The Networked Nonprofit Practice Model.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Last month brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Because, Thursday, September 8 brings the official release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. A skill like any other skills needed for successful selling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

This training was a day and half and here’s what we covered: Section 1: Self-Awareness: Understanding and Moving Through Your Leadership and Communications Style. Participants reflected on their style strength and how it has helped them be successful in different situations. The first session focused on self-awareness skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. However, not everything he created was a success; he also had many failures. He also did not find the successful inventions with his first experiment.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Great Stories Grant Wishes: Using Audience Personas to Update Make-A-Wish’s Messaging : Learn how to identify your target audience based on learnings from Make-A-Wish’s audience persona development. Tell Better Stories With Your Data : You’ll learn how to interview your data to find compelling storylines. Nearly impossible.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The problem is that trying to ''reduce'' stress is simply a waste of time. Evans Her new book is fully of stories, action plans and techniques for becoming healthier (eating healthfully, exercising, etc.) The problem is that willpower is a very limited resource, and it’s easily exhausted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. What worked? What didn't?

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Targeting a very specific audience will make it easier for you to address the specific problems faced by that audience, and for your message to make a real connection with them. a slogan, perhaps, or a compelling human-interest story â?? Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Discover how-to details and strategies for fast, measurable digital marketing success. Fundraising. Donor relations. Accounting.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

9 Steps to a Successful Fundraising Campaign. After years of fundraising in the “trenches,” as well as coaching and training thousands of organizations to raise money from individual donors, Lori L. Lori has found that one thing creates a successful individual donor fundraising program. That’s what we love about stories.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Cabral, MA, CFRE will lead you through the why and how of creating your own database standards manual and processes to ensure that you are not leading your organization down the path of “Garbage In=Garbage Out.” Steven: because of the pandemic, true story. Robin: True story. So make sure that you actually train them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

The lab used human design facilitation techniques that I have been trained on by Luma Institute. We started the lab with an exercise to gain individual understanding of the problems, a technique called Rose, Bud, Thorn (described here ). kanter #DELC2014 pic.twitter.com/LniRwLJ2ey. Photo by Rachel Calderon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

They're investigating how short, 140-character contributions can build upon each other to create a non-linear narrative – like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Consequences. The story is line is being summarized regularly on the blog. Just tweet your line of the story to @youropera. Here's Act 2. Photo by hasmil.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010 Four Tips And Observations For Leaders I really like these four leadership tips and observations from the book, 1001 Ways To Energize Employees : Nothing creates more self-respect among employees than being included in the process of making decisions. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

No problem. So I’m going to explain a lot of amazing techniques that you can use right away. And my promise to you is that you will have three or four actionable items, tools, ways of communicating that you can implement today, right now, no problem, to start getting more response from your efforts and getting those problems.

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