Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 20, 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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. Downsizing.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. Downsizing.

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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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. 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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. Downsizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

. Much of my training and facilitation work lately has been centered around the ideas in my recent book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. A San Francisco startup, called Valued has a mission is to provide companies with the AI-driven tools they need to stop inappropriate behavior, bias, bullying, and discrimination in the workplace.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 2, 2011

Each year I post a list of favorite Have Fun Do Good books. I have a feeling Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart will be included this year. Moonrise is a collection of 37 pieces by women leaders (and a handful of men) edited by Bioneers cofounder, Nina Simons , with Anneke Campbell.

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JULY 3, 2023

While cracking open a book or watching a video are easy ways to learn, attending a Disability Pride event and meeting people with disabilities is also a great way to better understand the history of the Disability Rights Movement! If you know others with disabilities, encourage them to share their own stories with the world.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. We both started in tech in San Francisco.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Read the informative and inspirational, The Entrepreneur’s Faces , to follow the intriguing stories of 10 real entrepreneurs from around the world as they reveal their personal entrepreneurial journeys – overcoming pain and setbacks, all the while demonstrating tremendous vision, imagine and drive. 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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. Downsizing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

The book shares how and why our mind pays attention to some events, ideas, or people and not others. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention. Parr spent over two years researching and interviewing people for this book.

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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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. 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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. 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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2014

In-person Events 10/14 SFTech4Good (San Francisco, CA): Cause Funding: Indiegogo + Cause Funder: Geek Club Books, Autism Story Apps 10/15 NCTech4Good (Triangle Region, NC): Does Your Donation Page Need Work? Check out this page to see where NTEN will be in the community this month; we''d love to link up with you.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. I put it to the test during an unusually warm January weekend in San Francisco. Getting Steller Set Up.

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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. Recruiting and unifying your inner team. Downsizing.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We’ve been inspired and moved by your stories. Awards will be announced at our gala on October 22, 2014 at SOMArts in San Francisco (you can RSVP and get your invitation here ). Joaquin was the founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet, which launched in 2005 from San Francisco State University.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Nonprofit leaders, impact investors, and philanthropists from all over the world gathered in San Francisco's Fort Mason Center this week for SOCAP12. Heroic Stories Capture Nonprofit Audiences. Sachs advised organizations to look to ancient mythology when forming their stories.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Earlier this week, I first learned about Amit Gupta and his story from a twitter post. Amit, a member of the San Francisco tech community, has leukemia. Marketing guru and author Seth Godin posted a story on his blog; Michael Galpert joined in, both urging others take a cotton swab test by simply registering here: bit.ly/swabacheek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

That’s where I met Kim Kastorff who is the founder of Kimpacto , a San Francisco-based advisory & consulting firm working across the U.S., Your communication strategy should be a combination of both financial + social impact metrics, and should consider statistics and personal stories that convey your impact.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Our friends Eric Mason and Melanie Duve at Wix are busy helping all kinds of do-gooders create meaningful websites because they believe your home page is the most important page in your digital story. Below, lets examine a few examples of nonprofits with great stories to tell, led by exceptional home pages.

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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. Share your story below. The afternoon was focused on the skill building – drawing – images and letters. Have you experimented or are you using graphic meeting facilitation for your nonprofit?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2012

In my next book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” my co-author KD Paine and I take a look at how you measure it. Fund asked Kate to share her experiences with our Flexible Leadership Award in this video because we knew it could benefit others to hear her story. First it requires understanding the definition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

Each topic introduced a framework and story, and was followed by discussion and activities to identify examples in the Arab world and or determine whether the principle was relevant. There were many ideas, but all agreed sharing success stories from NGOs in their country was important.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

If you missed them, be sure to take a look at Kevin's three posts from the RSA Conference earlier this month in San Francisco. Your Office Is Everywhere" is the title of the first chapter of the book, and was a sort of mantra for the entire project.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

San Francisco, California: Cause Funding: Indiegogo + Cause Funder: Geek Club Books, Autism Story Apps. Seattle, Washington: Project Management for Nonprofits. Friday, October 10, 2014. Naples, Florida: NFN4Good Office Hours Q&A for Members. Tuesday, October 14, 2014.

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DECEMBER 11, 2005

Whenever someone asks me if I've read a good book lately, I can never remember what I've read, so this year, I wrote down titles as I read them. But I can tell you that after reading this book, there is no way I will ever buy non-organic produce again, if I have the choice. This was the first book I read in 2005.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Our Silver Prize — a free one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud — goes to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco, California. Adobe design software empowers our agency to better communicate our story and the stories of our students with stunning visuals and supporting graphics. Thank you TechSoup!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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MARCH 24, 2008

And I’m already looking forward to NTC in San Francisco in 2009! { We just show up and make sure you guys have ample opportunities to share your amazing stories and expertise. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Holly 03.24.08 at 12:00 pm Thanks Michelle – and thanks to you!

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MAY 2, 2012

How to Tell A Compelling Nonprofit Story: Part 1 (#12NTC) , Nancy Schwartz. Free Access to State Legislative Information Paves Way for Political Action , San Francisco Chronicle. More about that book , Michelle Murrain. How Non-Profits Can Protect Digital Rights and Themselves in the Post-SOPA Era , Rob Cottingham.

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