Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. A great example was Panhandle Converter Recycling , a company that we met with in Dothan, AL.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

While most of the owners did not have formal business education, they had internalized many of the key frameworks that we teach to MBA students and made them work for their companies. A great example was Panhandle Converter Recycling , a company that we met with in Dothan, AL.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 23, 2009

My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did. Increase the number of people of color I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast. Adult volunteers read once a week, one-on-one with two students for 30 minutes each. Waiting a few weeks until your "real life" is in full swing can help you craft more realistic goals.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Sometimes, its worth contacting a local university or technical college to see if your video would fit as a student project. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com They can get a donated or subsidized videographer and/or editor. Q: How can nonprofits define and measure success with an online video? All rights reserved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. Michaela is now working as the Online Manager for a nonprofit focused on International Student programs , called World Learning and had attended SXSW where she felt that there needed to be more nonprofit panels. I wrote it in advance).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

Currently, my day job is a graduate student at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism where I will graduate this month. I'm looking forward to hearing feedback and insights when I present the paper at the World Social Marketing Conference in Brighton, England this upcoming September 2008. Trendspotting by Dr. Taly Weiss 2.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. And now to the interview. Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

As you can tell, the interview is pretty long. Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. And now to the interview. Oh the hours!!

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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. We Make Change is the product of 81 interviews with community organizers who answered questions like, what makes a good organizer?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

On April 15, 2008 I talked with Janessa Goldbeck, the Director of Membership at the Genocide Intervention Network, about what we can all do about genocide. My friend and colleague, Adam Sterling, was a 21-year-old student at UCLA when he first heard about the genocide in Darfur, and then he was outraged and decided he had to act.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast. I met with people like Erin Potts, the founder of the Students for a Free Tibet concert series.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

60) Search « M+R and NTEN CMS, Email, Fundraising Benchmarks Study | Main | 51% of Donors Not At All Interested in Social Networks » Monday Apr 21 2008 EENs Avatars Campaign Brings Online Marketing to Life Monday, April 21, 2008 at 02:56PM | by Caitlin Ochs Imagine having the ability to translate virtual reality into actual reality.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

Utne Reader named Favianna one of their 2008, 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World , and she recently received a Sisters of Fire Award from the Women of Color Resource Center. I ended up going to college, trying to be an architect, because, again, I was one of those honor-roll students. I was that kind of honor-roll kid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, building robust networks and using social media can help these advocacy organizations make change happen for children in their state. The project is in its second year and I’ve been working in collaboration with Spitfire Strategies. It’s also hard to change the.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book?

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book?

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