Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

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

APRIL 8, 2020

There is a limited number of characters, so this is best used to keep time for participants or share brief prompts. . If participants are working through an exercise or set of discussion questions, create a google document with your prompts and include space for taking notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Jennifer made use of an app called “ Answer Qwik ” that allows participants to answer polling questions on their mobile phones and have the aggregate results shown on the screen. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. I told them to come back at a precise time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage. He shares his candid account of the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. Toward the end of the book is Appendix C, which lists 45 core questions to help you assess job applicants. Building an outrageously talented team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

My New Year’s Reflection Rituals Review the Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Chris Brogan’s technique is to select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. That is twenty years!

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. questions) that are similar and shared by many funders. Intern Roles (if any).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Dennis Schatz from the Pacific Science Center contributed: How do we find the RIGHT questions for visitor participation? I love this question. Ask the question to several people.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We make information into data when we explicitly attach it to a question and explicitly or implicitly connect it to an approach for making sense of it. We utilize datamaking as part of shared meaning making. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Dennis Schatz from the Pacific Science Center contributed: How do we find the RIGHT questions for visitor participation? I love this question. questions that induce grappling.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2019

You have a couple of provocative questions related to the topic you will be discussing or training on and have people line up as to whether they agree or disagree. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies Gunner’s techniques in his own technology/activist trainings. Can this technique work for an online meeting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days. To meet people where they already are, we created a Facebook group and wiki site to share information.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2022

It seems like you have to answer the same questions over and over in every grant proposal. And in longer government proposals, sometimes it seems like you have to answer the same question twice right in the same application! For example, Funder A may have a question that says “describe your location and the populations you serve.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The question is, do most fundraisers know their website analytics ? The aim is to keep sharing and inviting them to support the organization. The techniques are the same; it is just the medium that is different. You may just be surprised at how many uncaptured leads that you have.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Online support: Add AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants to your website to answer frequently asked questions, process donations, and provide donors with round-the-clock support. Create a system for staff members to share insights with fellow team members. Now is the time to get started with AI fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Here’s an overview the tips and resources I shared. This makes it easier to focus on the content while handling additional questions, troubleshooting and technical problems. Ice breakers and energizers are helpful to check in with your colleagues or even to share optimism and fun. Interactive Meeting Techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. Leaders inspire their staff to ask questions, share creative ideas that may seem unconventional, and discover different ways of seeing the world—and they lead the way. Are you stuck in chronic performance?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2020

As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned. This includes orientating participants to the agenda, introductions and a check-in or icebreaker, questions or activities used to help people ease people into a meeting or learning situation. .

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The factors determining how engaged a donor is will vary from organization to organization, but engaged donors are typically the ones most responsive to your messages, most likely to attend events, the first to volunteer, and proud to share your mission within their networks. You can try: Sending donor surveys. Encouraging conversations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 19, 2023

Our Ask An Expert series features real questions answered by Claire Axelrad, J.D., The problem with this technique is it’s a true research project. And even dining reservation and food delivery services commonly ask for phone numbers these days, so people have become more used to sharing this information.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Edinger also provides invaluable advice and techniques for how to move your sales team from transactional interactions and toward consultative relationships by: Helping your customers with problems they don’t see. Edinger Today, Edinger shares these additional insights with us: Question: How do you become a Growth Leader?

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 6, 2024

As an email subscriber, each week you’ll get a new “micro” essay about 1 principle or technique. Claire Axelrad Claire’s blog, Clairification , has answers to your toughest fundraising questions. It’s also filled to overflowing with more than its fair share of total BS. Very Good Copy. Subscribe here.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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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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Mentoring Policy Technique News 98

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In fact, the letter made this particular donor feel so good that she shared it on Facebook! Element #6: Contact info for questions. Offering the phone number and/or email of someone the donor can contact with questions is good customer service and shows how open you are to receiving input from them. Element #7: Real signature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Review the Year: I use tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead. Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 19, 2023

He further shares that some sections of the book may be more applicable to managers, and some may be more applicable to individual contributors. Stop wasting time in meetings with four proven techniques. Question: You say that even a team using the best systems and tools on the market can still be inefficient and drown and in work.

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

Your team may be grappling with questions like, “How do we transform words on the page into reality?” Although I don’t have all the answers, I can share what has worked in my experience. Normalize Feedback Use the technique of calling in and calling out. Your team may be thinking, “equity work is hard.

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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.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Transparency is lacking GA4 relies on modeling in some cases, meaning in some cases they’re looking at similar behavior among users with shared characteristics, and making an estimate that if one user took an action, a similar user did too. GA4 helps users get quick access to a useful report. We’d love to hear them.

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Bloomerang

MAY 13, 2021

The focus is getting to know the donor through a series of discovery questions that you’ll ask with the donor’s permission, of course. With the right set of donor discovery questions, you will be able to determine the donor’s needs. The questioning techniques should include: Open Questions? —?they

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2017

Reflection requires hitting the pause button and asking and answering questions. Just like many meetings begin with introductions or sharing the agenda, make sure your ending includes a few minutes of reflection time. It is asking the simple question of how to improve a process, project, or even the meeting itself.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Take a look and cast your vote so that we can share some pretty spectacular and helpful insights and stories with you next March! We’ll also explore the strategic intent of GA4 as well as explore its potential in adaptive techniques, robust machine learning algorithms, and powerful predictive analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

” Content curation is sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them. Content curation is not about sharing links as you find them.

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