Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Fortunately, the authors' book provides a proven series of easy-to-implement skills, techniques and powerful strategies via what they call the Communication Code that anyone can use to make their communication, relationships deeper and more productive. And effective communication is essential for successful leadership.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 5, 2023

5 techniques association leaders can leverage for employee empowerment When you take steps to empower your association’s staff, you’ll notice an improved experience for both employees and members. Meet with your team in one-on-ones to learn professional goals, ask about skills or talents, and better understand your employees’ backgrounds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 11, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Imagine your photography teacher able to explain different shot angles, subjects, apertures, and lighting techniques with nothing more than well-crafted prompts.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Read on for proven techniques and technolog ies that will help you boost your non-dues revenue in no time. . But with a few proven techniques and the right technologies to support them, you can boost your non-dues revenue in no time. . The related products can be events, courses, product, subscriptions, memberships, and more.?.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Join them to learn the strategy, techniques, and usage of this new generation of innovation. Skills UP: Shoring Up Tech Skills in Your Organization. These sector leaders will bring Blackbaud’s Skills UP training for managers to bbcon: Wesley Waters—Wake Forest University. Blackbaud Product Update Briefings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging. What is personal productivity? Personal Productivity Mindsets. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Skills in this area I want to deepen are reflection and creativity.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Those in positions of power can invite traditionally excluded people to the table, but to sustain meaningful dialogue, everyone must have some skills to hold these important and often difficult conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2015

I’m honored to be hosting the January, 2015 Nonprofit Blog Carnival and theme is personal productivity online. 2015 has arrived! If you’re like most nonprofit folks, you’ve probably made a few New Year’s resolutions that include being more productive and effective at your nonprofit job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed. Found it via Curata’s collection ). Look for the Patterns.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2022

The # PACE Process for Early Career Success book is designed to help readers unlock the mindset, traits, and techniques needed to P lan, A pply for, C ommit to, and E xplore an ideal career path.” His playbook, guide and techniques incorporate real life examples, research, and a little tough love.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

That’s why we included a module in the Emerging Nonprofit Leaders peer learning group on meeting design and facilitation – and these days it is an important leadership skill. In preparation, I’ve been studying the research and best practices for productive meetings. Our tips are here. Take the Chairs Away.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Here, I'm offering three specific and simple techniques that can help you become better at staying focused, and also recover more quickly when your mind drifts into unrelated territories or someone interrupts your focus: First Technique: Use a Countdown Timer. Second Technique: Micro-Planning™ Each 40-Minute Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2019

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. .” Rituals are intentional small, tangible acts done routinely and carry meaning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. Pictured above).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll need to understand both elements and how they work together, for a successful end product. These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Do you have a web team with staff in multiple roles and with different skill sets?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Our family has several New Year’s rituals, including a nature hike. Pictured above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2013

To practice techniques like mind-mapping, use of visualization, attention-training, technology tools, and more to stay focused and productive in our work. He will teach us some drawing techniques for those of us who are not Picassos. Visualization Techniques. Information Coping Skills on Scoop.It. 18 Minutes A Day.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Clearly Identify Roles and Responsibilities The Difference Between Skills, Qualifications and Experience How Should Soft Skills and Personal Characteristics Be Incorporated? Outline what a productive employee looks like. Therefore, they are focusing more on the “end result:” the skill set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about the concept of social productivity as it relates to using social media and chewing on a post that Chris Brogan wrote a few days ago called " You Can Do Your Job Without Twitter." " I keep thinking there has to be a sweet spot between social productivity and personal productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2014

The session will share a wide range of free and low cost tools for implementing an organization’s content strategy as well as group and personal productivity. My presentation will focus on personal productivity in an age of distraction, tools, skills, and best practices that staff members of nonprofits – large and small need.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Classic: Video that uses classic editing techniques so that proper tone and context are provided. You might see close-up shots of products or images of VIPs or event attendees to capture and promote the event more functionally. Be sure that their final product is produced in a format that can be used with your virtual event software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I have learned a lot – and the results have helped me be way more productive (and drop a lot of pounds toos!). I’ll be doing a Guidestar Webinar on health and productive meetings on Feb. ” I have cut out non-productive work time where I sit at my desk and can’t concentrate!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Taking a few minutes to establish these rules ensures a productive and respectful environment. Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. Roles and Responsibilities Assigning roles is vital for effective brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! Technique 2: Affinity Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Looking for new techniques to add to your facilitator’s toolbox? This is the focus of a session called “ The Big Bang Theory: Creative Facilitation and Training Techniques, ” that I’m co-facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. What is Brainstorming? .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2011

hours of productivity every day to interruptions and distractions, reports Basex, an IT research and consulting firm. Productivity drops. Try these techniques: Turn off all visual and sound alerts that announce new e-mail. The typical at-desk employee in the workplace loses 2.1 Thinking time decreases.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

But as the “the new normal” went from weeks to months, and every workday was spent at home with my kids running around screaming (AKA distance learning), I found myself falling back on techniques I knew would work—well-worn grooves, in an effort to stay sane and manage the mental and emotional load. . It’s about disruption.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

And your fundraising more productive! Sometimes we get one tool – one skill, one talent – and out of habit, we stick with it, never thinking about other tools we might need. It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

Your nonprofit feels ready or has a clear need to bring in a skilled consultant, but how do you find the right one? . By partnering with a skilled practitioner who understands your needs and is familiar with the field, the proposal you ultimately create has a greater chance of success. Years of relevant experience in the field.

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