Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2022

then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you. As the book explains, that better way is both/and thinking versus traditional either/or thinking. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book. How do I balance work and life? Smith Marianne W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2011

My colleagues David Neff and Randal C Moss have written a book called The Future of Nonprofits that launches next month. As Zoetica colleague Geoff Livingston notes , writing a book is no small feat. (I In the pre-launch at SXSW, they shared a wonderful graphic novel that outlines the themes of the book.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

In Grizzard’s new review series, Eric shares a video book review of the book! The design concept was to mimic the orientation of a web page within the book, so you could have comments, information boxes and so on in the side bar with the main column acting as the main content on the page, just like a web site.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

then the new book, Both/And Thinking , by authors Wendy Smith and Marianne Lewis , is for you. As the book explains, that better way is both/and thinking versus traditional either/or thinking. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book. How do I balance work and life? Smith Marianne W.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Philanthropy back to the drawing board: Shaping a Future Agenda , by Philanthropy Europe Association (Philea)  In the face of ever evolving and mounting crises, this book by Rien van Gendt urges philanthropy to stop looking to the past for answers. Here we highlight some of the most popular publications from 2023. 

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 24, 2012

While doing some bookstore browsing yesterday, the hubs and I wondered if there was a way to create a book wish list to encourage friends and family to buy books at a local bookstore. The pros: You can sort the order of books on your wish list. If one of them sells the book online, the wish list links to it.

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

She’s also the author of two books, “Building Your Brand” and “Connect to Influence.” “The Freelancing is a good alternative,” Allison advised. Allison’s first book “Connect to Influence,” offers advice for people whose palms turn cold at the thought of being alone in the crowd. “I We’d been living with COVID for some time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Common ways of doing this are through online petitions, surveys relating to your cause, product or item distribution, or a whitepaper or e-book “call to action.” Alternatively, groups may drive traffic to their website or landing page but ask too prematurely before the prospect has even been appropriately cultivated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 16, 2011

The intention is to define an XML content model which will make it easier to present alternatives to the original graphical content for persons who are blind or print disabled. We are using the modular approach of the DAISY Authoring and Interchange Framework, which defines modules and profiles for the representation of books, journals, etc.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

Forbes recently named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. What’s the alternative? Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The only way you could import and export books would be directly between organizations, not people. Everyone who is not disabled globally can directly access Amazon.com and order books. Alternative B qualifies this issue so much as to make it ineffective. We don’t think the commerciality issue belongs in the treaty.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

“Workarounds are effective, versatile, and accessible methods for tackling complex problems,” shares the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds. In Part 1 of this fascinating and instructional book, author and Oxford University professor, Paulo Savaget , explains what workarounds are and how to come up with them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2023

Forbes named, A New Way To Think , as one of the 10 must-read books for 2022. In the book, authored by Roger L. What’s the alternative? Question: In your book, you write that if you feel comfortable with your strategic plan, there’s a strong chance it isn’t very good.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

Two days ago, on Tuesday, June 10, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York made a major ruling that emphasizes the legality of fair use for book digitization. It allows users to search book content that contains a match for their search terms. In Authors Guild v. copyright law). The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Source: Pratham Books. Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Just adding to the meme of alternative gift giving ideas that Steve Garfield started last week. What is your favorite alternative gift-giving site or program? Save the Children. As with my previous post, this is an open invitation to any shop for a cause or gift the gift of a donation to a charity service or project to leave a comment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

The new book, Thrive With A Hybrid Workplace , provides a way forward to understand the changing world of work, to dispense of old biases, and to establish trust between the enterprise, its leaders, and its employees. The book is divided into four sections: Section 1: Planning and Preparing a Hybrid Work Policy. Kantor, PhD.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The donor sends the check via alternative private delivery service like UPS or FedEx. If the donor mails the stock certificate and stock power, the gift is deemed completed on (1) the date of mailing via the USPS, or (2) the date of receipt by a charity representative if sent via alternative carrier.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

To communicate his thoughts, he uses an alternative augmentative communication device. They get frustrated and don’t want to read,” she says, “but access to digital books and reading technologies changed all that for Zach.” “Without Bookshare, my academic life would have been much harder for me and my caregivers,” he said.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

You might ask: why would an organization that in many ways provides a competitive alternative to e-readers object to e-readers being exempted from accessibility requirements? Our primary goal is to ensure that people with disabilities get equal access to the books and content they need for education, employment, leisure and social inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. Priya Parker's wonderful book The Art of Gathering shares the core principles of how to drive. Whether you dream of better meetings or you're planning a community festival, I urge you to read this book. The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2023

It’s also an important consideration to ensure meetings, including yours, aren’t derailed or delayed, especially when conference rooms are booked back-to-back. It’s not only kind to leave your colleagues with a tidy room that looks the way it did before your gathering.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Alternatively, you can create a new form from scratch and format just one page header of your form. For more ideas on how to maintain a healthy and lasting relationship with your donors, check out our recent blog post So, What’s Your Donor Relationship Status , as well as our E-Book, Your Donor Retention Toolkit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2016

If you are like most nonprofits on Facebook and have experienced dramatic loss in reach and engagement over the last year, then experimenting with publishing Notes on Facebook to increase reach and engagement as an alternative to spending on adverting is worth a shot. That said, here’s how to get started with Facebook Notes.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Then, that page can include a link customers can use to book an appointment. Connect relevant software solutions to your website, such as your recurring billing software, booking tools, and CRM. To ensure your website does its job in converting first-time visitors into customers, remember to: Make the website mobile-friendly.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2021

You’ll undoubtedly encounter the many books and online guides written about capital campaigns along the way, but there’s one area we’d like to focus on specifically: the feasibility study. We’ll make our case and explain an alternative approach below, but first, let’s start with the fundamentals. What is a feasibility study?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Before this initiative, critical illustrations in math and science books could only be studied by those reading traditional texts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. Recently, Ryder published a book, The Bullet Journal Method , which explain it in greater detail. Book reading list is a popular BuJo collection. Last year, I used it to follow how many books I read.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations. Imagine being able to ask your AI to review all your saved topics and suggest alternatives and improvements based on related assessments and grades.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 23, 2016

Alternatively, publish your Moment with an auto-generated cover photo (no image attached to the tweet). Based on more than 20 years of experience and 25,000+ hours spent utilizing mobile and social media, Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits is a comprehensive 256-page book packed with more than 500 best practices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

People with physical disabilities such as those from cerebral palsy often get significant benefits for access to alternative text. We recently had a big article in SpeakUP, the journal of the United States Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a hypertext brain.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This growth is most likely because podcasts offer listeners an alternative way to access and engage with other event professionals and industry experts. . Instead of sitting down to read a book, blog, or news article, users can tune in and listen to their favorite hosts talk about recent trends, tidbits, and other interesting anecdotes. .

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Alternatively, you could ask it to brainstorm outreach channels and digital campaign ideas. Founder Nicholas Kristock says, “Golf is something nonprofits should have in their book. Beyond fundraising, Fleece and Thank You’s golf outing raises awareness about the organization and engages the right donors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 20, 2018

Whether you are in a new customer service role or simply need some customer service refresher tips, Customer Service Training 101 , is the book for you. My favorite parts of the book include Evenson’s techniques for effective customer service via the phone and for properly responding to customer complaints.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

What is even cooler is that Perseus Books, Patrick's publisher, reached out to us during the production process to make sure that the book was available to people with print disabilities. And, thank you to Perseus Books for going the extra mile in ensuring this book is available to everybody.

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