Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. We know through our experience working with hundreds of companies, organizations, and communities that what you’ll discover in our book is an antidote for polarization, stagnation, and divisiveness. It is hopeful and forward-looking.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 12, 2022

Pardot was founded in 2007, and it’s a recognizable product name—I will miss smiling when I hear a new client pronounce it “Par-dough” instead of “Par-dot.” . It spends an enormous amount of time, energy, and resources on both Marketing Cloud Engagement’s roadmap and Marketing Cloud Account Engagement’s roadmap. So, what’s next?

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Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

This can be a huge time saver for your staff and volunteers. In 2007, Qgiv was founded by a couple of friends looking for a way to make it easy for nonprofit, faith-based, and political organizations to accept online donations and payments. Why is a fundraising platform important for fundraising? of total giving in 2019).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. Some were ahead of their time and others lacked the design and functionality necessary to hook smartphone users. The reality is that mobile and social media require time to use effectively. 4) Maturation of Mobile Fundraising Apps.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. One thing to keep in mind is that most new services when first launched are expensive, but go down in price significantly over time as new vendors flood the market. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

She officially started her full time business in 2013, and has designed hundreds of digital and real products. Laura MacDonald, President of Benefactor Group , is a certified fundraising executive with three decades experience in nonprofit leadership, fundraising, and philanthropy. She has loved every minute of it. Share This Post!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

It’s that time of year again, Cause Camp 2021 is just around the corner! In times of disruption and upheaval, it’s more important than ever for nonprofits to come together and learn how to best move forward. Peter has defined the vision, strategy, and culture of 829 Studios since its founding in 2007.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. I succumbed. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

O penly share your professional experiences, credentials, and decision-making process so that volunteers understand your expertise and see where your decisions are coming from. We have a long-time volunteer that staff avoided because she disregarded policies and procedures. It requires some trial and error.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? I am a full-time employee of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, and as the Social Media Manager I manage all the social networking efforts for the organization. Being able to respond in a timely fashion and answer any questions is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

" There was an acknowledgment from a panelist about the tensions between the need to look at results and the need for experimentation and pressures of timing. Funded a project to work with state of Michigan - requirement for high school graduation is that all students have an online learning experience. MacArthur Foundation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. What happened was I felt like I was wasting too much time on things that should be easy. It should be easy to plug in a new monitor.

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

360MatchPro and DonorSearch seamlessly integrate so you can begin leveraging donor insights in no time. Then, provide the right information to the right donors at the right time with custom emails based on match eligibility. Activate in Seconds and Sta rt Raising More from Donor Insights!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. Time suck: Social networks are a time suck. at 9:46 am Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? I am full-time and paid, though, like everyone else in the non-profit world, my time/resources are limited, so I don’t get to do social media strategy/long-term planning all day long. Book Tour ?. ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

I’ll keep this simple, as many of us have a lot on our minds as we experience the world grappling with a public health crisis. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. We just saw this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

August 7, 2007 I’ve been experimenting with the non-content centered social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook for a while now. It has been fun, in many ways, but I’ve not figured out the utility for me in terms of my work, although others have had a better time of it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. We know through our experience working with hundreds of companies, organizations, and communities that what you’ll discover in our book is an antidote for polarization, stagnation, and divisiveness. It is hopeful and forward-looking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

April 15, 2007 At NTC , there was a lot of talk about the “big three&# open source CMS packages that most people these days in our sector are using: Drupal , Plone , and Joomla. I hadn’t had experience with either Plone or Joomla, but in talking to folks both at NTC and Penguin Day about Joomla, I got intrigued.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude. coming out in October.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. Would love to hear your experiences, any lessons learned or best practices, and ideas. 25 median donation amount. What do you think?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." Throw a website at it!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. At the time, nonprofits were primarily only using Myspace and YouTube. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side. Ask for an office smartphone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007. At the same time I created the Nonprofit Organizations YouTube Channel. Five Lessons Learned.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Send queries to nonprofit tech lists for experiences and information, like nosi-discussion , nten-discuss , riders-tech , and others. How busy is it? How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I got involved in Linux a long time ago. I left academia to do that sort of thing with nonprofits full time. In fact, that experience, and the work I did around it with that organization, was the first step into this whole nonprofit technology field. So here goes. I co-administered that box for a few years.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new model leadership we talk about in When Everyone Leads is a match for our turbulent times. We know through our experience working with hundreds of companies, organizations, and communities that what you’ll discover in our book is an antidote for polarization, stagnation, and divisiveness. It is hopeful and forward-looking.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. That’s right, trivia lovers: UA originally stood for Urchin Analytics!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I myself wrote a custom CMS a long time ago that would be considered crap now, so I don’t blame them for that, but the charges???) I can evaluate previous projects based on what I see is the underlying complexity, and figure out how much experience a vendor has had with a particular set of problems.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Though the resulting structures can be complex, social enterprises are increasingly transforming traditional nonprofits and corporate philanthropy into new hybrid organizations (Billitteri, 2007). Banks were not lending.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

It could be 100% in that participants provide the content by connecting with others and sharing experience and knowledge. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. Just A Little Content To Get Started . Opening Exercise.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

Efficiency seems simple enough: if you don't have the right resources (people, tools, training, procedures) you will waste time and money. It will take you too long to do everything, you'll be too rushed to do the job right the first time, and you'll spend a lot of time fixing mistakes. One unhappy customer will tell ten others.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood. at 2:27 pm I got the message :) But I also have some experience with marketing… and marketing is all about stating the positive without stating the negatives. Here’s hoping that the next time around we get even more response! To my mind, it bodes well for the open source tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. Are they paid, full-time, part-time? We’re all paid-employees, but we none of us do social media full-time. I should say I did recently hire a social media volunteer who helps me on a part-time basis. My guess would be either MySpace, YouTube, or Facebook Causes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 2, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology March Blogtipping March 2, 2007 I’m folllowing Kivi on the NPBlogtipping bandwagon. She uses her experiences to talk about technology issues. A note: Deborah is an old college friend of mine.

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