Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2013

One of the participants is Jonah Berger, Best Selling author of the book, Contagious. Those six principles are the basis of my new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On , and the first principle is Social Currency. New York City is a tough place to open a bar. Again and again we found the same principles at work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): Blog Action Day is October 15th. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Change.org is hiring bloggers. This year's theme is climate change.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? How do you appropriately implement them? And how do you check results?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Go on a news fast It's hard to turn away from the train wreck that is playing on the news these days, but just like slowing down on the road to see an accident creates a traffic jam, watching and reading too much bad news can slow you down too. Take a little break from the news. Watch a comedy, or read a funny book.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Buy Books from Your Local, Independent Bookstore. Di's Book Blog recommends using the BookSense web site to find independent bookstores near you. The Jackson Street Book blog recently reported that the New York Times and NPR have added BookSense.com as an online book purchasing option, in addition to Amazon.com.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Prepare to be inspired and then to work hard as you read Bo Eason ’s book on how to be the best in the world at what you do. The book is called, There’s No Plan B For Your A-Game. Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle. He includes those distractions and makes them part of his game.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. We are both from New York, but felt that California was the right place to be. In 1977 he wrote an editorial for the Sunday paper, and at that time he said, "I believe that books can change the world."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Prepare to be inspired and then to work hard as you read Bo Eason ’s book on how to be the best in the world at what you do. The book, published a few years ago, and is called, There’s No Plan B For Your A-Game. Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Last winter, after Harry and I had a conversation about global warming (and quite a conversation it was for a then eight-year old), and we collaborated on a series of green videos. This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 30, 2006

I'll list my five and continue the chain by tagging five more bloggers: Beth Kanter , Green LA Girl , Urban Sprouts School Gardens (Abby Jaramillo), HappyKatie , and Vale of Evening Fog, but since Time magazine named the person of the year, you , I would like to know about you , Have Fun * Do Good readers. Where do you live?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. I chatted with Bryant in early February about his new cookbook, food justice, how to eat cheaply in tough economic times, and course, the yumminess of food! Kellogg Foundation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Prepare to be inspired and then to work hard as you read Bo Eason ’s book on how to be the best in the world at what you do. The book, published earlier this month, and is called, There’s No Plan B For You’reA-Game. Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle. So, forget about the big game.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 7, 2007

The ingredients included 'mineral oils derived from the processing of petroleum, paraffin, formaldehyde and the carcinogenic malachite green, a synthetic dye used to color fabrics.'" They recently published a book about their experience called Plenty, which I think I'm going to add to my summer reading list.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Learn more about how to be "green" at work, and at home, by picking up a copy of The Green Book for $5. The 2007 book, authored by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. You can use a provider that uses 100% green and renewable energy like these listed on MoneySupermarket or, even better, install solar panels on your home. However, this is now far from necessary.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. Try a green energy supplier. It’s easy to switch to 100% green energy. You can use a provider that uses 100% green and renewable energy like these listed on MoneySupermarket or, even better, install solar panels on your home. However, this is now far from necessary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

I found out that the kindergartner I'll be working with likes pizza, the color green, pirates, sports and dinosaurs. We read a book together about tugboats before he went to lunch. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. 826national.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Freshen Up Profiles Update user profiles every couple of days with new stories, interesting facts, new videos, blog entries, photos, etc. Remember when all you needed to do was send out a press release, follow up with your rolodex of reporters or buy an ad in the New York Times?

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