Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2016

Today is my birthday! To celebrate, rather than eat cake, I’m fundraising for the Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN). Please consider donating to the fundraiser with colleague Cindy Leonard. I have worked in the nonprofit sector for 35 years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2016

Flickr Photo by Annamatic3000.

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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.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 15, 2016

More than 40 million people -- roughly one-third of the U.S. workforce -- work from home at least one or two days a week. If you are a leader of work-from-home employees, share the book, There's No Place Like Working From Home , with them. Share it particularly with an employee new to working from his or her home.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 11, 2016

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss creates fire, a leader creates passion." -- Russell H. Ewing, British Journalist.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 10, 2016

Today's leadership thought: "Status quo breeds mediocrity, calcifies bureaucracy, cripples progress, and hampers changeability," explains Shawn Murphy in his new book, The Optimistic Workplace.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 14, 2016

Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , gives readers practical guidance and concrete techniques to help leaders become more visionary.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

Here is some great advice from the book, Anticipate, the Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , by Rob-Jan De Jong.

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 14, 2016

People come to them from a variety of places, including social media, search engines, email messages and blog posts. Landing pages are the pages on your website that ask visitors to take a specific action. Just know that when you send someone to your website, you don’t want them to land on your homepage. without having to navigate around.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2016

Recently, two of my favorite P2P blogs featured articles on how to approach planning for 2016, but their methodologies differed a bit. Far less often, opposing opinions emerge (is Dan Pallotta a genius or totally insane?) and I enjoy trying to figure out which side of the debate I land on. One emphasized changing everything. “If

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