Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 23, 2021

In the new book, From the Bench to the Boardroom , Michael MacDonald shares his journey from humble beginnings in the outskirts of Philadelphia, to his college basketball career at Rutgers, to executive positions at Xerox and Medifast. the broader and more informed the team’s perspective will be.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2009

In today's Sunday New York Times article , Win a Trip You Won't Forget , two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof , writes, "[I]f you want to save the world, you first must understand it." The student reporter will blog and vlog for nytimes.com. on his blog, On the Ground.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"The digital revolution is changing the hierarchy of information," said Dr. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons. " Today, information is published from the 'bottom up' or from user-generated sources. YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

meets LinkedIn for students. One cool project that came out of a RHoK event is InfoPlace Kenya , an Android application for information and directions of essential places in Kenya like hospitals, tourists attractions, restaurants, educational facilities, and more. TechSoup's Hacker Helper can get you started.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

I've got a lot of trips planned for the next few months, and sometimes these blogs lead to people getting in touch with me about ideas for action! It's an interesting and high powered group, and I'm looking forward to talking about Security and Privacy of Information. Early December, I'm starting to plan a trip to New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 18, 2008

According to the New York Times article, Stop the Presses, Boys! Katie teaches her students how to push beyond that feeling so that we get our ideas out there. When she asks students, 'What are you an expert in?' Unfortunately, if you are a woman, you are less likely to share your opinion on the Op-Ed pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

The Cambodian Blog community has many facets, including an active group of "ex-pat" bloggers. Her short, pithy, and witty posts are not only fun to read, but also very informative. John Weeks (aka jinja ) has lived in Cambodia for a long time and has been blogging for many years. Hi blog is always informative.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

There is also a growing trend of new nonprofits run by college students. According to Crain's New York Business , "The flood of 'postmillennials' creating their own nonprofits stems from two trends, experts say: a generational desire to do something meaningful and the quest for individualism.". "In

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Even better, she agreed to share a blog post about what she learned on this blog. Organized crime, Mr. Carlin, says is selling our information and making some very serious money. "at UC Berkeley earlier this month, but unfortunately had a conflict. Fortunately, my colleague, Aspen Baker, was attending. And for good reason.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figuero - Claiming Space for Brown Women in the Digital Museum Landscape Based in Washington DC, Brown Girls Museum Blog is a new-ish site led by graduate students Ravon Ruffin and Amanda Figueroa. Her blog, CBreaux Speaks , is one of the most eloquent I've ever read. And, yes, I did tell them.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. SOS_SLAVES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. So, thought I'd take an opportunity to query my network via Twitter and Facebook and see what's new. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. s Blog about? Artist Blogs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Sometimes more! Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

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. You have to try and attract new people to Facebook and your Cause. Sometimes more! Oh the hours!!

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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. EP: We were both in publishing in New York City. BB: Where can people find information about self-publishing?

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. the Liberty Hill Foundation has been supporting efforts to train high school students in organizing. For instance, in L.A.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. In February 2001, AAM commissioned a study about the trustworthiness of museums and found that "Almost 9 out of 10 Americans (87%) find museums to be one of the most trustworthy or a trustworthy source of information among a wide range of choices. But here's the problem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 22, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Through informal discussions we've had with stakeholders, it seems there are a few preferred sources of information.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

It had a lot of interesting, sometimes esoteric information. There are college students who cannot make it through the day without checking Facebook multiple times. I want a college student to feel like her week is not complete if she didn’t make it to the museum. In the beginning, the Web was a lot like a museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Since Second Life is such a new technology, most people using it in a professional capacity are knowledgeable about how it works (and are building things themselves) because they have to be--there's no in-house IT guy who's going to do it for them. The software crashes (for me about once each day). The landscape is foreign.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And I got a lot of important insights and information when I was in that role. And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. I work with clients from mainly in New York, but also all over the country with my “All About Grant Writing” online course.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

We also have a student division: STAND , which has more than 850 chapters around the world, and the students in those chapters actively organize and mobilize their communities and schools to pass legislation, to fundraise, and to really make more noise about genocide in Darfur and genocide in general.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Because it was my first time meeting the students, part of the half hour was spent getting to know each other. I highly recommend volunteering with young people, whether they are as little as a kindergartner, or as old as a college student. Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. Try a green energy supplier.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

You can watch the video below to see a moving speech from 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, who founded the Fridays for Future movement that has seen hundreds of thousands of students striking from school across the world. For more tips take a look at the Going Zero Waste blog. Try a green energy supplier. Sustainability.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

I asked for questions for you from my blog, Facebook and Twitter readers and followers, and someone asked, in relation to that: "I'm interested to know, with such amazing volunteers and apprentices coming through Three Stone Hearth, what do they offer folks once they complete their time there and move on to other organizations, communities etc.?

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

It allowed them to circumvent the hassle of asking users to fill in their information. Because these 5M people had already done this through Hyves, we could have them link to a EEN action page, which would then be pre-filled out based upon their login information. Through Hyves, members could join the effort in just one click.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

It allowed them to circumvent the hassle of asking users to fill in their information. Because these 5M people had already done this through Hyves, we could have them link to a EEN action page, which would then be pre-filled out based upon their login information. Through Hyves, members could join the effort in just one click.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

For more information about coworking, read the Coworking Community Blog , check out the Coworking wiki, join the Coworking Google Group , watch this short video , and see photos of coworking spaces in the BusinessWeek article, Where the Coffee Shop Meets the Cubicle. Also using two monitors is a great way of saving paper.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. It was founded in 2001 by a group of college students from all over the world who wanted to ensure that “Never Again” became a reality rather than a rhetorical sound bite. Many people avoid the news because most of it is really depressing. They would rather opt for MTV.

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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. David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s.

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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. David Perlmutter: Blog Wars began as an idea as early as the mid-90s.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

New York Every year, social entrepreneurs and donors (along with a whole lot of other folks) converge on New York City. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy.

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