Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. Earlier this year, authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp answered the following questions about their book: Susanna Camp Question: What inspired you to write your book? We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2016

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Yet, nonprofit leaders and managers will have to carefully assess, prioritize, and take risks with their finances, which will likely require new skills and bold adaptation to continuously changing circumstances. When she’s not managing marketing content, you can find her teaching or taking yoga classes around the San Francisco bay area.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Pottruck 's book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 22, 2015

Pottruck ''s new book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Jarche also points to James Mangan who identified several skills for acquiring knowledge in 1936 (via Maria Popova ). Harold Jarche (Click for Original Article).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. Awhile back, authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp answered the following questions about their book: Susanna Camp Question: What inspired you to write your book? We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

Published Book Three: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times throughout October-December as we presented dozens online webinars and guest posts and articles.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 21, 2015

Pottruck ''s book, Stacking the Deck , teaches readers a nine-step course of action leaders can follow from the first realization that change is needed through all the steps of implementation, including assembling the right team of close advisors and getting the word out to the wider group. Piloting the implementation. Downsizing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. Today, authors Jonathan Littman and Susanna Camp answered the following questions about their book: Susanna Camp Question: What inspired you to write your book? We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2019

The workshop was part of the three-day program where participants were learning both strategy and how to use tools from women who work in the tech industry here in San Francisco. The participants were at mixed levels of skills and experience and organizations ranged from community/grassroots organizations to larger institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Visual Meeting Workshop by David Sibbet and Rachel Smith - Based on Sibbet's book Visual Meetings. The afternoon was focused on the skill building – drawing – images and letters. This is especially important if there are small group exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

book launch at Stanford University with my children, Harry and Sara. The book’s message is simple. And, the book is very inspiring too and even better all proceeds from book sales are being donated to high impact nonprofits. book launch at Stanford University with my children, Harry and Sara.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2009

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review and this is a special post because it’s actually a book review. Hildy Gottlieb, a colleague (but really growing into a friend) sent me a copy of her new book, The Pollyanna Principles. I read it on the plane to and from N2Y4 (11 hours from London to San Francisco!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

It was inspired by a conversation we had during the planning sessions in San Francisco in January about whether or not there was an Arabic word for Nerd (there isn’t). Shabakat Al Ordon trains young people in technical, professional and facilitation skills who then go out and create programs to train people in their communities.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Kevin Lo Chris Peters When you're a nonprofit manager, there are loads of great resources to help you get the skills you need to lead effectively: You can take classes on human resources, learn about the legal needs of your organization, or dive into accounting practices. But how do you learn what you need to know about managing technology?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Reading I''ve been too tired lately to read any heavy nonfiction, and in general, I usually don''t enjoy adult fiction, so I''ve been reading children''s books, and loving it. On a related note, an interview with me about the VegCookbook Club was featured in Viva Vegan last month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

With his site, WeAreVisible , he is helping homeless people gain the social media skills to connect with others and help them improve their situation. Mark is distributing cards about WeAreVisible that includes examples of tweets from homeless people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of 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. We devote an entire chapter to it and the workshop exercise is based on this chapter.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

He has 500 professional how-to and reference books in his office. Ahern was surprised that basic skills he took for granted as a sales copywriter – like the deft use of emotional triggers to prompt action, for instance; or reverence for the customer – were often missing in the donor communications he saw. Dan Pallotta. DanPallotta.com.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Reading Eggs offers instructors an in-depth view of each student's progress, with e-book recommendations tailored to students' skill levels. He lives in San Francisco. Reading Eggs is an online reading education program, intended for children ages 3 to 13. Two Truths and a Lie. Image 1 : Artieskg / Shutterstock.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

We began, essentially, organizing a union of low-wage workers, unemployed workers, to try to improve both the living conditions and the working conditions for low-wage workers here in San Francisco. In the last couple of years, we've begun two new organizing projects. Steve Williams: Yes. I was hooked from that moment on.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 13, 2009

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 It might be an educational program that links visitors to each other via their affinities and skills rather than staff providing all of the instruction. On Wednesday, it's my birthday.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. I was at that time working at a wonderful organization called Streetside Stories , which is a literacy arts organization with programming in various Title 1 middle schools in San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Listening skills and tools upgraded.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant suggest that “[a]n organization… has to walk a tightrope of building the skills necessary to engage in advocacy, while continuing to provide services (or vice versa).”[1] San Francisco, California, United States: Jossey-Bass. [3] New York City, New York, United States: Longman Books.

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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. What's the path that brought you to writing this book? A lot of women in the book had that same experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Disabilities like dyslexia, vision loss, or a brain injury or physical disability that gets in the way of using a printed book. Before we started, blind people were read to, or had tapes of people reading the book sent to them in the mail – they physical snail mail. But wait, there’s more! My second example is just a year old.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: And are there any books or websites people can use as a resource? They publish curriculum and books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

There arealso two Lean Impact Summits taking place, one in December in NYC and one in January in San Francisco (I’m a judge for the San Francisco event). They also learn professional and language skills in order to enable them to find meaningful employment. Goldie Chow, SamaUSA (Impact Manager).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 28, 2021

To help us personally reflect and connect with these stories, I’ve included questions from Terri Givens’ book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. Their emotional restraint and deferral to seek group consensus is often interpreted as a lack of initiative or leadership skill.

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