Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. He joined Zane Benefits as its thirteenth employee in 2007. What inspired you to co-author your book? Why or why not? Good advice.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

Below is my 5th annual list of favorite do-good books that I read in 2009, but this year I'm calling it my Have Fun Do Good Book list. Although I've been a sponsor of a "sister" for the past two years, and am familiar with the organization's work, to prepare for the interview I read her riveting memoir, Between Two Worlds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In addition, for the book, the authors interviewed over 80 people with whom Campbell also worked. Through stories from those interviews, Trillion Dollar Coach features specific strategies and action steps to help leaders implement Campbell’s principles and winning approach. Eagle has been a director at Google since 2007.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2019

In addition, for the book, the authors interviewed over 80 people with whom Campbell also worked. Through stories from those interviews, Trillion Dollar Coach features specific strategies and action steps to help leaders implement Campbell’s principles and winning approach. Eagle has been a director at Google since 2007.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. Just like you might cross-reference the subject of a book with a Dewey Decimal number, we are now cross-referencing each action with a universal identifier that helps to link it to related data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field. I’m a fantastic book learner, which means I’m a great blog/twitter learner, too. In some ways, I have been blessed with the gift of osmosis.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Read an interview of an Android developer. There are some other interesting moves outlined in that great post by Marshall Kirpatrick, my currently favorite ReadWriteWeb blogger Android for the masses, iPhone for the rich? It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. So far, it’s simply vaporware.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. I gave Maneth a copy of the book and we chatted about social media. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview. She graduated from college and is married.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Although we had been trading letters for two years , I met Sopharath face-to-face in 2007 and recorded this interview. She is the second college student we are supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s program. (I’m donating the royalties from my new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , towards her education).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I decided several weeks ago, for a variety of reasons, to retire my independent consultant hat. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

I was also wondering if I could do a quick audio interview with you on this topic. And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. I’m working on a screencast about how one might use some of these low cost or free tools to build community around a blog. Would take like 1-2 minutes – only need soundbyte 2 Beth 10.31.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Here’s some other coverage: Podcast from the Nonprofit Tech Blog Post from Josiah Richie Video Interview of Randy McCabe { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Matthew Edmondson 04.15.08 I have high hopes for it. And Blackbaud may well be shaking in their boots. at 1:00 pm This is indeed excellent news.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison Here's my list of Favorite Books of 2006, in the order I read them. Both books are crazily well-written. The book documents mother and daughter's trip around the world to meet worldchanging activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? To prepare, come up with statements based on a participant assessment, interviews, or survey and that are related to your training topic. The statements should express a point of view. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach? Next, try provocative statements.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. In 1977 he wrote an editorial for the Sunday paper, and at that time he said, "I believe that books can change the world."

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Loyal to the Sky received a Nautilus Book Award for world changing books. We're also going to be true to what the world wants of us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I'm helping Green for All get the word out about Van Jones ' new book, The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Two of Our Biggest Problems. Here's what Vice President Al Gore says about The Green Collar Economy : "This book illustrates the link between the struggle to restore the environment and the need to revive the US economy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So, for inspiration I encourage you to listen to an interview I did with Van in April 2007 for the Big Vision Podcast online, or on iTunes. You can also read a transcript of the interview on Have Fun Do Good. You can also show your support for Van in three ways: 1. Join the I Stand with Van Jones Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit. Tags: Books. In a follow up email, I asked him to share his story and describe the benefits and challenges of being a 501-c3 created in the social media cloud. I wasn't familiar with the concept of a fiscal sponsor at that point (Heck!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. The pledge was successful, and Dana Wefer is on the ballot for the 2007 election. those might be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

If you know of campaigns and lessons learned that haven't been included, please leave a comment: August 2007 I launched a campaign to raise money and get t-shirts donated for the Cambodian Bloggers Summit. October 2007 This campaign was for $1,000 to send a young Cambodian woman, Leng Sopharath, to college.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 2, 2008

"[T]hat quality of reverence, that is really the gateway through which we can begin to rediscover our capacity to do good." -- Interview with Van Jones , President, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Only by establishing peace in yourself can you be helpful in contributing to peace.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 20, 2007

Last month I posted an e-interview with Caitlin Cohen, the US coordinator and co-founder of the Sigida Keneyali Project , a community-run clinic in Sikoro for 28,000 people. For your donation to qualify as part of the Challenge, you must give before March 21, 2007. It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2007

Here is a little blurb about the Conference from their site: "Writing for Change 2007 is a conference for writers of nonfiction books who believe that it is time for their book to be published. The San Francisco Writers Conference believes that great nonfiction is Changing the World One Book at a Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007. Jim Spadaccini from Ideum Blog noted that dashboards are not new, in fact, there's a book about Dashboard Design. I caught up with for a quick email interview: Has your organization always been an "open" institution?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

You can listen to my interview with Ingrid on the Big Vision Podcast , or read a transcript here. And that should be happening, as in those pieces of literature and reports published, probably around July of 2007. Books, oh there are so many books. In a long sense that's the second step. Energybulletin.net is a good one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. Bring over 3 video blogging kits (inexpensive camera, a book, batteries, and SD cards) that will be used as "prizes" to encourage new bloggers. Even a donation of $20 will help.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

For the second interview, I even built a little lie detector and brought it in. I started meeting people through the blog--both those I interviewed and early readers who commented. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. A Few Book Suggestions: Be Bold: Create a Career with Impact , a publication of Echoing Green. My advice: 1. Follow your curiosity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2007

This year, they named me the 2007 Best Podcaster:Blogger Most Dedicated to Social Change. I asked four other women, who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast, to be on the panel: Alli Chagi-Starr of Art in Action, Ilyse Hogue of MoveOn.org, Melinda Kramer of Women's Earth Alliance and Reem Rahim of Numi Tea. in the area.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2009

One of the events listed is an exhibition of photos at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris from the book Celebrating Women by Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed in October 2007). You can find UN-related events on WomenWatch. 100% of the royalties from Celebrating Women go to the International Museum of Women.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to be interviewed as part of a series of online interviews with nonprofit social media gurus about how to use social media. Kari came to my house a half hour before the interview went live. Ustream also has a feature that lets you put a marker in the video and tweet that section of the interview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Transparency is the New Black: My Top 5 Plus 1 (That will be the name of a book title in six months.!) Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. is definitely worth checking out - like this interview with Christina Arnold from Project Hope. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Yesterday, I interviewed Jake Brewer who is the Internet Manager at the Energy Action Coalition about how they use metrics to generate insights about their YouTube Channel. “We In 2007, the Human Society implemented its first photo petition campaign to protest Wendy's treatment of animals. Again, it isn't the numbers in isolation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 12, 2013

Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007). Big Vision Podcast'

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