Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the new book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

“All businesses sooner or later face the need to reconstruct their future,” explain the authors of the book, The Phoenix Encounter Method. They will need to destroy part or all of the incumbent business model in order to build their breakthrough, future-ready organization.” Get their team to experience Radical Ideation and scanning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

They wanted to strengthen connections with ETR’s Health Equity Framework, an evolving model that is essential to all of the work we do. This music was played in the meeting room during transitions and breaks. Let me tell you, our staff has some great taste in music!). Taking Care of the R-Team. Don’t Forget the Fun!

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

It’s like a band with no director – everyone is playing their own song and together it’s just noise instead of beautiful chords of music. Without good leadership, everything falls apart. Leaders can see the path forward for the organization. They can help the organization set and achieve goals.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

ChatGPT is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. ChatGPT , from OpenAI, is a large language model within the family of generative AI systems. AI models use algorithms to recognize patterns, learn from specific sets of data, and provide responses based on that education.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , with Aliza Sherman. Studies confirm that creative activities – painting, drawing, dancing, playing music, theatre, or singing – can improve employee productivity and skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

The presentation was an opportunity to share some insights about working internationally and from sharing the ideas from the book from trip to Kenya / UK last November. In the video above, she talks about her love of music and philanthropy. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The interesting thing, too, is that their model is that they take a percentage of what you raise (5%.) That’s an interesting model, and, if the software is decent, sounds like it could be a good option for some organizations. No setup fees or anything else. But, of course, as with anything, look (a lot) before you leap.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

When I think of story telling, I think of books. The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading. I invited her to share her experience in crowd funding. A Guest Post by Sam Mayfield.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. Mitchell 10.25.07 to develop open source software. Xen comes to mind.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2016

This is the advice from the authors of the new book, Connect: How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society. The book is all about redefining three discredited works: Corporate Social Responsibility. Another example is the music streaming service Spotify. What insights stood out?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

TechCrunch suggests the issue is in the business model: Unfortunately, the business models have not been worked out yet to accommodate such mixing of data. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks. We want applications that can use data from multiple social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The conference was created by Soren Gordhamer in 2010, author of the book, Wisdom 2.0. You know a conference is going to be a different experience when you walk into the conference area and there is harpist playing beautiful meditative music that melts away as the chimes and bells ring to signal the beginning of the conference.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture. Here's what they had to say about it in a press release: Each of the sites has uniquely implemented the reviews in a way that compliments their business model and format. Charity Navigator (see the Reviews tab).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need. This is a model that is impossible with proprietary software. It’s a model I hope spreads beyond the CMS space, into other areas.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Doing good is fun.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

This is not only cool from the perspective of the integration of two great open source web apps, but it also is a very interesting business model. Matt Asay, blogger of all things in open source biz models, thinks Google Code may have overtaken Sourceforge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

I’ve been reading Matt Asay’s blog on open source business models, and he has an interesting post which suggests that writing documentation is a good marketing strategy ! AgencyByte has a great article on how to prevent scope creep. Although the breaks I take during my work day don’t look like this, I liked this cartoon.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

A growth and innovation simulation model shows that increasing the FLOSS share of software investment from 20% to 40% would lead to a 0.1% Open source isn’t biased in distributing its benefits. …• Increased FLOSS use may provide a way for Europe to compensate for a low GDP share of ICT investment relative to the US.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I’m reading this book at the same time as I’ve been working on the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. I’m realizing that all of the justifications for why I am so into open source and free software is right here in this book! It gets chewy, for sure, but it feels like every chew is worth it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. There's enormous pressure on museums to pursue models that are economically and socially viable. Tags: Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum. The growth of the Web and Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Are there online courses, Youtube videos, music lists, playlists, podcast episodes you have been on, guest appearances on radio shows you recorded, news clippings, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

I think this model may become more prevalent, as organizations are not going to comfortable letting vendors store their data, but will want to take advantage of RIAs like Gliffy or Google Docs. Our Plugin for the Confluence wiki already operates like this; if you’ve bought the plugin, you are completely independent of our website.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.)

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Book Sales Collect and sell donated books at a book sale event, with proceeds supporting your nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. A patient identity integrity toolkit including model data practices. Kids today are exposed to more than 50 hours of screen time every week. Common Sense Media to the rescue! That's just the beginning.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. One of the most challenging concepts in the book for me came under the issue of admission pricing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. Hopefully, eventually, they can write their apps just once. This breaks the whole thing open. I’m not so clear about how this helps users.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

You are a model:-) And this subject area is important to lots of us. At Christian Long’s think:lab blog (eduction) he points to a piece on MacArthur’s Spotlight blog by Justine Cassell “Disempowering Girls as Users of Technology. 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. If it makes you feel any better – I feel your pain too. We are trying to eat our own dog food re: transparency and openness in social media. And it’s hard. That’s also REALLY hard. I guess having values is just kind of tough.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

For example, check out the charming way this comic book artist personalizes his relationship with potential backers in this video , minute 2.) A documentary film crew might use Kickstarter to pay for travel costs, or a dance troupe to pay for recorded music so they don't have to hire musicians for their live performances.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

Sometimes it does matter, both to an organization that might use that vendor, and to the vendor themselves in terms of viability of their business model. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter. I came across this discussion of Linux distributions and their strengths and weaknesses in terms of vendors who might resell Linux.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 8, 2006

It's a similar campaign model to the New Heroes House Party that I wrote about last August. The Buzz if you are, " always trying to be the first to find out about the latest and greatest movies, music and entertainment." You can see a trailer for the movie here: You can also donate money directly to the campaign by clicking here.

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