Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 30, 2023

You’ll learn how these individuals : Came from modest means and went on to help change the world. Fortunately, history shows, and Nailing It reveals, inspiring examples of successful people who experienced delayed progress in their 20s, forced to take circuitous paths to their life callings, even overcoming tragic starts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. Last week, I sent a tweet asking folks to add their best examples into the wiki which helped me create the presentation.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

The art of persuasion is a science that everyone has the ability to improve upon, according to psychologist Dr. Robert Cialdini. This will help bring the quote into context and make it feel as if it is coming from a real, live, genuine person. Help out with examples and good leading questions. It’s okay to edit!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. Last week, I sent a tweet asking folks to add their best examples into the wiki which helped me create the presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

This will be an interactive session with real and remote audience participation. Jonny Goldstein will do real time illustrations of the ideas swirling around the session which will be projected live and that will help us move towards a common understanding and enable us to share an artifact with others.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

For inspiration, let’s look at a few government websites we have helped successfully move to Drupal 9 and are preparing or will soon be preparing to move to Drupal 10. First Name Last Name Job Title Email Address Organization Comments Submit The post Government Websites Moving to Drupal 10 appeared first on Forum One.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. Last week, I sent a tweet asking folks to add their best examples into the wiki which helped me create the presentation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

To help nonprofit board and staff leaders address this challenge, I created a list of more than 100 fundraising tasks for nonprofit board members. Board members can practice telling the story of one person helped by the organization, or the story of how they came to be on the board. They simply need to be good storytellers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

After I took down all the "kick me" and "kick it" post-its covering the Pocket Museum title label in the men's room, I realized that this is the perfect example of an A-to-B test for gendered response to a participatory museum experience. and I hope you share them in the comments. And a lot of screwing around.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

You’ll learn how these individuals : Came from modest means and went on to help change the world. Fortunately, history shows, and Nailing It reveals, inspiring examples of successful people who experienced delayed progress in their 20s, forced to take circuitous paths to their life callings, even overcoming tragic starts.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

I recently caught up with Mazarine and asked her, “If there was one example or story you could share that exemplifies why you wrote this book, and a few examples of the kinds of content and resources included in the book, what would it be?” And it’s helped readers too! All from water. Heather Davis, The Telling Room”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Arts and Social Media. For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow. Bots could help protect the privacy and safety of activists. Right now it is difficult to discover bots, but after a bit of research I found a few examples of nonprofits making use of Facebook Messenger platform. Please share in the comments.

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Qgiv

JULY 22, 2021

It is an art and a science, Lou says. For example, if you’re doing a feasibility study to raise endowment or estate gifts, the quantitative data is going to give you really good information. JoAnn: Can you give an example for our readers? More surprising is his almost academic way of approaching fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. Connect Alumni with Current School Experience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. The guiding principle is uncovering relationships between the works of art themselves rather than explicating information or theoretical concepts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

He has focused on one channel, Instagram, because he wants to show the world his professional life at the Met through the eyes of his iPhone. I analyzed his photo stream and witty narrative to connect examples of what he shares to the criteria for an effective personal brand. He gives you the inside story about the work of art.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

But this one resonated clearly, as I got 75 retweets and 61 comments. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. We all need help to do this better. And here are a few suggestions from commenters. I'd ask questions on Twitter before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Arts Council of Silicon Valley Staff. The number of stars depends on how your Post Quality compares to similar Pages (for example, Pages that have a similar number of fans.). Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. Understand why we had more new fans on a certain day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

For example, Jay Baer’s and Amber Nashlund’s new book, The Now Revolution , uses Microsoft’s version of QR codes called Tag technology , so readers can scan pages and get additional bonus materials on their phones. QR codes are popping up in school lesson plans, like this arts lesson plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some wisdom from DC Nonprofits: JoesMovement : Joe’s Movement Emporium is the community performing arts center of World Arts Focus, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was launched in 1992. They enlisted help from board members on Twitter, but being organized with a plan and timeline for asks was critical to their success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

What do you do if someone comments with a racial slur on a photo of your volunteer? Having a social media policy in place will help you answer these questions, and inform you or your social media manager on what to do in similar situations. What if you get comments that are dishonest or misleading? ASU Lodestar Center.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

highlights how apps can help libraries connect with patrons and provide services in new ways. But these aren’t the only ways apps can help organizations. And these technologies can help patrons engage with library (and other) collections in new ways. Arts organizations are using mobile technology to help people find.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). A good organization will value unstructured time and a good CFO will help you find that financial slack. Can you give me an example? How do you loosen up funds?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Recently, TechSoup presented GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising Strategies , a webinar aimed at helping organizations integrate #GivingTuesday into their end-of-year fundraising campaigns. Melissa Cronin gave us some background on the event she helped start and pointed us toward resources we could use in our campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

At the same time, if you’re in this field as both an avocation and a vocation, you can’t help but hear the constant drumbeat of change. I’m so lost as to how we’re going to get out of the mess that is the equitable support of arts and culture in the age of billionaires. Which brings me to the larger comment about social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. In essence, it is visible storage for the museum.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 11:56 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Michael 07.31.08

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. Some of these experiments didn''t yield anything useful, but some were surprisingly helpful proxies for complex human interactions.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 25, 2020

Here are a few tips to help you move your in-person activities online or enhance your existing online presence. Pull out the pictures from past years of your organization – your founder, your original board, examples of the impact you’ve had. If you offer classes (like a children’s center, YMCA, art classes, etc.),

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Screen capture here : I've been running small experiments on the art of retweeting for a couple of weeks and it's time for a reflection. . I was tweeting wisdom because Janet Fouts asked me to help with a project " Bite Sized Social Media for Nonprofits." (You can participate or help spread the word.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. Be Helpful. That’s a good thing.

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