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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

What Nonprofit CEOs and Trustees Do the Best Job Leading on Social Media Channels? | Beth's Blog - 0 views

  • Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices.
  • Nonprofit leaders need to cultivate and hone a personal brand that is human, yet professional.  To be effective, it should be closely aligned with the organization’s goals, objectives, and audiences.
  • Nonprofit leaders need to use social media to drive conversations online and offline, influence others, and shape perceptions.
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    nice post by Kanter on nonprofit leaders using social media authentically and effectively
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How to Measure Social Media ROI | XEN Systems - 0 views

  • How you gain followers
  • How you engage with followers – will you be producing content which can spark discussion, or will you be curating content? You should consider too how many times you post a promotional post as opposed to an educational/fun one. We’re so accustomed to marketing messages now that these go right over the heads of our followers if they’re posted too often, so do bear this in mind.
  • What tools you’ll use to measure engagement and track customers
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  • What’s the best time to engage followers?
  • Understand Your Audience In order to be effective at social and to be able to prove ROI, it’s necessary to fully understand your goals and how those align with those of the business and to understand exactly who your customer is.
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    Really good article by Kerry Butters on measuring roi on social media, June 13, 2015.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Why Google's Best Leaders Aren't Stanford Grads With Perfect SATs | Inc.com - 0 views

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    article by Walter Chen, Inc. Excerpt: "The most important character trait of a leader isn't where she went to school or her IQ. It's one that you're more likely to associate with a boring person than a Silicon Valley star: predictability. The more predictable you are, day in and day out, the better." The article It isn't as much about predictability as it is leaders establishing clear direction and getting out of the way of employees to work autonomously in making the goals/vision come true. All backed up by big data that has changed Google's hiring practices.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Building a successful internal network globally - lessons from the frontline with Telefonica - NixonMcInnes - 0 views

  • And I think that’s probably a result of how it was initially rolled out. In some places it’s led to a lack of understanding around how everyone can make an ESN work for them – using it to meet their specific challenges and in a way that best suits each individual. It’s definitely not a question of trawling through a live feed to find something that may or may not be relevant to them, an ESN, used properly, is so much more than that. And it’s up to us in our team to really bring that story to life for each employee. A mammoth task with over 100,000 of us! 
  • One word: COLLABORATION. With our size, geographic scale and employee numbers an ESN, with all the opportunities for collaboration that it affords, is a game-changer.   
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    an interesting case study of a large company embedding Yammer (ESN) in a 130,000 employee setting. Anna Carlson interviewed Jennifer Hayward from Telefonica, 6/2014.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

When we were small: Pandora - The Washington Post - 0 views

  • Westergren: The best piece of advice I ever got was from my wife, which was “Don’t be self-conscious about being an entrepreneur.” I think most successful companies go through some kind of trial by fire. During that time, you’re borrowing — you’re borrowing people’s time, you’re borrowing goodwill, you’re borrowing money. You’re begging and borrowing. And that can begin to make you feel self-conscious, feel like you’re failing or that you’re a leech.
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    interview by J. D. Harrison on 2/6/2015 with with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. Their business model--"a series of lily pads to keep them afloat"--took them about four years to develop to finally point it toward individual consumers to start using Pandora. The rest is history and a lot of money!
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

7 Important Reasons to Unplug and Find Space - 0 views

  • 1. Powering-down helps remove unhealthy feelings of jealousy, envy, and loneliness.
  • 3. Solitude is harder to find in an always-connected world.
  • 4. Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you.
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  • But no matter how much I interact with others through the miracle of technology, there is something entirely unique and fantastic about meeting face-to-face. The experience of looking another person in the eye without the filter of a screen changes everything. Each time, I am reminded that life’s most fulfilling relationships are the ones in the world right in front of me. And spending too much time looking away from them does a great disadvantage to my soul and theirs.
  • Take one extended break on a regular basis. I have found great value in choosing 40 days each year to power-down unnecessary apps (leaving only phone and text privileges on my phone). And I have completed the exercise each of the last two years. It has taught me about technology, relationships, and myself. Whether it be for one weekend, one week, or 40 days, there is great value in taking an intentional extended break from technology. Pick something. And get started right away. Your life is waiting.
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    finding space offline
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Canada's Best Diversity Employers - 0 views

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    Canada's Top 100 employers, March 31, 2015. Categories to be honored as a most inclusive workplace " (a) Women; (b) Members of visible minorities; (c) Persons with disabilities; (d) Aboriginal peoples; and (e) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered/Transsexual (LGBT) peoples."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How To Develop New Skills & Progress In Your Career | Your Training Edge ® - 0 views

  • The internet has also played a big role in the more uncertain fate for modern employees as it much easier for businesses to outsource which enables them to get the best value for their money
  • constantly improving your skills to keep up with the ever-increasing demands of the modern employee.
  • Identify The Skills You Need
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  • Online Courses
  • In House Training
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    article by Bryant Nielson on how to develop new skills--online courses, study LinkedIn for certifications held by people in youer field. 
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

How we form habits, change existing ones -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

  • When our intentional mind is engaged, we act in ways that meet an outcome we desire and typically we're aware of our intentions. Intentions can change quickly because we can make conscious decisions about what we want to do in the future that may be different from the past. However, when the habitual mind is engaged, our habits function largely outside of awareness. We can't easily articulate how we do our habits or why we do them, and they change slowly through repeated experience. "Our minds don't always integrate in the best way possible. Even when you know the right answer, you can't make yourself change the habitual behavior," Wood says.
  • Forty percent of the time we're not thinking about what we're doing," Wood interjects. "Habits allow us to focus on other things…Willpower is a limited resource, and when it runs out you fall back on habits."
  • The second principle is remembering that repetition is key.
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  • there are three main principles to consider when effectively changing habitual behavior. First, you must derail existing habits and create a window of opportunity to act on new intentions.
  • Wendy Wood explains in her session at the American Psychological Association's 122nd Annual Convention.
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    From Science Daily on how we may form new habits, 8/8/2014, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Keeping Introverts in Mind in Your Active Learning Classroom - 0 views

  • Often confused with shyness, introversion is an aspect of personality which affects how we engage in social activity and our preferences for learning.
  • ntroverts may prefer to work completely alone and discover their best ideas in solitude. They are likely to be comfortable in a lecture hall; listening and learning without the demands of engaging with others. But what we know about learning suggests that this passive mode of learning has its limitations, so many of us infuse our classrooms with more active learning strategies.
  • So how do we respect introverts’ needs amidst all of this active learning?
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  • An activity where students work with a partner is likely to fall within the comfort zone of even the most introverted student, and it still communicates that active participation is both an expectation and a benefit for learning.
  • With time to think, and an opportunity to try an idea out with a partner, some students will be more willing to share with the large group.
  • In small group discussions, introverts typically prefer to listen first, gather their thoughts before they speak, and may be gifted in synthesizing the ideas communicated by others.
  • create at least one personal contact for the introverted student
  • learning and assessment strategies
  • online discussion environment
  • Given some choice and input, students might choose to have their participation grade based on verbal contributions in class, written responses in an online discussion forum, or a series of journals or reflection papers.
  • develop the skills often identified by potential employers — teamwork, problem solving, and interpersonal communication.
  • balance and choice
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    Really good articles that comes down to offering choice and balance to keep both introverts and extraverts learning and growing. Nicki Monahan, Faculty Focus, October 28th, 2013
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

10 Habits Successful People Give Up to Increase Their Productivity - 0 views

  • 2. They don’t do without first learning.Learning is what we do best. The greatest thing about learning is the benefit that we receive in all aspects of our lives. Successful people strive to continue learning new things and expanding on things that they already know.If we stop learning, then the only thing we can do is settle with what we already know; if we settle for that, then there is no way to expand our minds. Expansion is essential on the path to success. Since our minds require learning for expansion, we must never stop seeking new knowledge.Imagine what would have happened if Bill Gates stopped learning and growing. The internet would be much more primitive than it is today. But because he followed his dreams and continued growing, he founded one of the biggest companies in the world and it is still flourishing and growing today.
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    article by at LifeHack on what to stop doing in order to get the right things done
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The 5 ways employers prefer to fill a position | Things Career Related - 0 views

  • What do you do as a jobseeker? The obvious answer is to become a referral by reaching out to those you know in a desired company. This sounds easier said than done, but the steps you take begin first with determining which companies you’d like to work for. And, most importantly, why? Create a list of 15 target companies.
  • f you were an outstanding employee where you last worked, friends of your employer will come to you. I see this often with my best customers who land jobs based on their personal branding.
  • You must become a referral.
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    blog post by Bob McIntosh, CPRW, trainer who leads job search workshops and is Linked authority
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

University principal questions the value of lectures (From Herald Scotland) - 0 views

  • "The concept is simple enough - a lecturer stands in front of an often large group of students and delivers a monologue on his or her specialist topic. "Students take notes and then at some later point there is an examination, during which the students will try to recreate the lecturer's approach to the subject. If all of that works, the student gets a degree."
  • Lectures are not simple stand-alone options
  • They must be combined with small group classes such as seminars, tutorials, lab-based activities as these are often the best way for students to learn. Small group activities are much more resource-intensive than lectures, so universities need to increase their commitment and current levels of investment in staffing and teaching-related infrastructure to deliver more of these."
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    Professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen asserts that lectures for information transfer are not as effective by itself and needs small group discussion
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    Professor at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen asserts that lectures for information transfer are not as effective by itself and needs small group discussion
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Student Perspectives on the Value of Lectures - 0 views

  • They see the lecture, at its best, as a critical, thought-provoking discourse in which a seasoned expert shares knowledge, experience and insight3
  • 1) Lectures provide focus and emphasis
  • 2) Multimodality exposure reinforces learning
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    "students in medical and dental school explain why they find lectures of value. from McGill University researchers, Medical Science Educator "
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    "students in medical and dental school explain why they find lectures of value. from McGill University researchers, Medical Science Educator "
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

A framework for social learning in the enterprise - 0 views

  • There is a growing demand for the ability to connect to others. It is with each other that we can make sense, and this is social. Organizations, in order to function, need to encourage social exchanges and social learning due to faster rates of business and technological changes. Social experience is adaptive by nature and a social learning mindset enables better feedback on environmental changes back to the organization.
  • the role of online community manager, a fast-growing field today, barely existed five years ago.
  • The web enables connections, or constant flow, as well as instant access to information, or infinite stock. Stock on the Internet is everywhere and the challenge is to make sense of it through flows of conversation
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  • All organizational value is created by teams and networks.
  • Learning really spreads through social networks. Social networks are the primary conduit for effective organizational performance. Blocking, or circumventing, social networks slows learning, reduces effectiveness and may in the end kill the organization.
  • Social learning is how groups work and share knowledge to become better practitioners. Organizations should focus on enabling practitioners to produce results by supporting learning through social networks. The rest is just window dressing. Over a century ago, Charles Darwin helped us understand the importance of adaptation and the concept that those who survive are the ones who most accurately perceive their environment and successfully adapt to it. Cooperating in networks can increase our ability to perceive what is happening.
  • Wirearchies inherently require trust, and trusted relationships are powerful allies in getting things done in organizations.
  • Three of these (IOL, GDL, PDF) require self-direction, and that is the essence of social learning: becoming self-directed learners and workers, all within a two-way flow of power and authority.
  • rom Stocks to Flow
  • Knowledge: the capacity for effective action. “Know how” is the only aspect of knowledge that really matters in life. Practitioner: someone who is accountable for producing results. Learning may be an individual activity but if it remains within the individual it is of no value whatsoever to the organization. Acting on knowledge, as a practitioner (work performance) is all that matters. So why are organizations in the individual learning (training) business anyway? Individuals should be directing their own learning. Organizations should focus on results.
  • Because of this connectivity, the Web is an environment more suited to just-in-time learning than the outdated course model.
  • Organizing
  • our own learning is necessary for creative work.
  • Developing emergent practices, a necessity when there are no best practices in our changing work environments, requires constant personal directed learning.
  • Developing social learning practices, like keeping a work journal, may be an effort at first but later it’s just part of the work process. Bloggers have learned how powerful a learning medium they have only after blogging for an extended period.
  • we should extend knowledge gathering to the entire network of subject-matter expertise.
  • Building capabilities from serendipitous to personally-directed and then group-directed learning help to create strong networks for intra-organizational learning.
  • Our default action is to turn to our friends and trusted colleagues; those people with whom we’ve shared experiences. Therefore, we need to share more of our work experiences in order to grow those trusted networks. This is social learning and it is critical for networked organizational effectiveness.
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    excellent discussion of networks and social learning in organizations with references to Hart, Jennings, Cross, and Internet Time Alliance among others, 2010
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