Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Culture Build Impact Lesson 87

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2020

That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One. The book presents a fictional parable about the power of finding, or being, a mentor. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Mentoring is powerful.

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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. You don’t begin personally building the relationships and starting the conversations that your campaign will need to succeed. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One. The book presents a fictional parable about the power of finding, or being, a mentor. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Mentoring is powerful.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One. The book presents a fictional parable about the power of finding, or being, a mentor. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Mentoring is powerful.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2019

That's why I became an instant fan of the book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One. The book presents a fictional parable about the power of finding, or being, a mentor. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon. Mentoring is powerful.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the book, Culture Is The Way. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Culture Build Impact Lesson 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. But I forced myself to listen to the financial conversations at the Board meetings. I didn’t always follow the conversation, but I usually picked up a nugget. One look at the budget and I would glaze over.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

“When it comes to culture, one of the most glaring issues is that far too many leaders do not recognize it as one of their greatest competitive advantages,” says Matt Mayberry , author of the new book, Culture Is The Way. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Culture Classes Build Lesson 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

When I was interviewed for this report several months, a post I wrote called “ Social Media Is Engagement With Purpose ” was fresh in my mind and I think the same advice applies to video. To measure success of your video, you need to articulate a goal. Is your organization using video and getting results?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 15, 2017

That's why I became an instant fan of the new book, One Minute Mentoring: How to Find and Work With a Mentor -- and Why You'll Benefit from Being One. Set to be released on May 2, 2017, the book presents a fictional parable about the power of finding, or being, a mentor. Mentoring is powerful. Both being a mentor. And, being mentored.

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Mentoring Articulate Phase Journal 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Note from Beth: My friend Porter Gale has just launched a new book called “ Your Network is Net Worth.” Her book shares the secrets of how to do this. In my book, Your Network Is Your Net Worth , I share several stories that demonstrate the potential impact of mentoring. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I did a book raffle at the end of the session and Tara Veliz and Alex Hildesvend were the lucky winners. Book Winners: Tara Veliz and Alex Hildesvend. We thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all we’d have to do is find examples of how boards online, opening up decision-making to outside influences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2009

But many networks need a private place or password protected place to have conversations online. This need isn't about being 'scared of social media" but rather a need for a safe place online to have conversations around very sensitive topics to build trust and relationships. But, where to put that fence when the boundary is unclear?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The topic of my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ). I have embraced this approach myself and I make it clear to my team that I would rather not get a pre-dawn email , but instead get a more fully articulated idea after they have had time to contemplate it and strategize on how to make it effective.”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

October 14 brings a powerful new book full of leadership lessons for " how to be a first responder in business." This week, Wood, answered questions about his book, the lessons he teaches, and the remarkable work of Team Rubicon. And we can all benefit from a strategic way to approach problems and decisions," he adds.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Measuring Networked Nonprofits: Using Data for Social Change is the topic of the book I’m co-authoring with KD Paine. Articulating measurable goals. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media. Organizational Culture. Technical or Systems Challenges.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

This is the fourth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. Leap of Reason Books (Free download). The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. Starting Conversations. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

There's an entire book devoted to the topic: Nonprofit ROI. Jason Falls shares in a post about measuring engagement, " The problem with trying to determine ROI for social media is you are trying to put numeric quantities around human interactions and conversations, which are not quantifiable.". Do you agree? Think I'm full of it?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts. The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Being me, I tweeted throughout the webinar, which also sparked a couple great conversations. Here are some of the highlights: If you aren't articulating how IT relates to your mission, expect leadership to cut deep. You need to articulate how IT relates to mission, over and over again. See Chapter One of our book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I hope you’ll spend the three minutes to watch and listen to the video – both Mark and Christian articulated the issues so well. event and look forward to continuing the conversation. Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV. He explains more in the brief video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. This conversation would not have happened a couple of years ago, and that it is happening now is great (late, but great.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Our conversation began with my asking Temra, "How are women changing the way we eat?" They traveled.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Actually, I think that the two of you combined now hold the record for the most books written by a Bloomerang webinar guest. If I was in the office, I would hold up Harvey’s great new book on monthly giving, which is behind my desk and really awesome. So monthly giving if you’re interested in that, please, get that book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of working with a group of Population and Reproductive Health grantees from Pakistan on a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? Defined Audience.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2019

When you want to improve your competence and how others view your competence, the book, Convinced: How To Prove Your Competence And Win People Over , by Jack Nasher, is your go-to resource. Use clear pronunciation and precise articulation. Speak somewhat deeper and louder than you usually would.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 30, 2020

When you want to improve your competence and how others view your competence, the book, Convinced: How To Prove Your Competence And Win People Over , by Jack Nasher , is your go-to resource. Use clear pronunciation and precise articulation. Speak somewhat deeper and louder than you usually would.

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People Chapter Articulate University 52

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I spent last week holed up in a cabin, working on my forthcoming book, The Art of Relevance. One of the most powerful books I read while doing research was We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence ( read it free here , great appreciation to Bob Janes for sharing it with us).

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