Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. So many people I’ve talked to have no idea where they are going or want to go once they hit their mid-forties,” shares Michael Clinton , author of the book, ROAR into the Second Half of Your Life - Before It’s Too Late. “It

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2019

Surround yourself with the people who will help you achieve your purpose. Successful people have a sense of urgency.F Prichard has featured, interviewed, and studied over one thousand of the world’s most successful people, from sports legends and world leaders. Successful people have a sense of urgency.F Skip Prichard.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. So many people I’ve talked to have no idea where they are going or want to go once they hit their mid-forties,” shares Michael Clinton , author of the new book, ROAR into the Second Half of Your Life - Before It’s Too Late. “It

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. So many people I’ve talked to have no idea where they are going or want to go once they hit their mid-forties,” shares Michael Clinton , author of the next book, ROAR into the Second Half of Your Life - Before It’s Too Late. “It

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Marc Andreessen, the founder of Netscape, Ning and an internet thinker (and billionaire), wrote a post today on his blog called Inaugurating the New York Times Deathwatch. He shows vividly how the New York Times business has eroded, how their ad revenues are way down, circulation is down, etc. Sulzberger, Jr.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Post Calls to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Construction of the statue had been completed the year before in France, but efforts to construct a pedestal in New York ground to a halt. Ironically, he had vetoed a bill that would have provided $50,000 for the pedestal as governor of New York. The committee in charge of fundraising was short on cash.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Post Calls to Action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

This post is about the way people write the word nonprofit. But for some people, the way you write this word says something about you. So, as people were crossing out of Gilead, army checkpoints asked each person to pronounce the word shibboleth. Should be interesting, anyway. Or non-profit. Or sometimes I even see non profit.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2019

The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. Cortico’s “digital hearth”. July 8, 2019; Nieman Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Note from Beth: The American Red Cross launched a user generated ad campaign featuring unscripted stories created and filmed by real people helped by the organization. The first ads are part of the organization’s holiday giving campaign and feature people impacted by home fires and flooding. It’s hard to pick a favorite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Here’s the article from today’s New York Times. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues. Jumo setup their offices in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Lehrer’s piece on the Wall Street Journal is here. But it’s during the walk around the block or staring out the window of the Acela to New York when we can thaw out the brain freeze and go for the breakthrough. People choose what data to accept or reject based on the story they have in their heads.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Show Some Pride — "So, Continue" Carr is probably most celebrated for this exquisite exchange found in The New York Times documentary, Page One , with the founder of Vice. In the nonprofit sector, people invest their souls. This commitment needs to be nurtured and cultivated. Two stand out.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

may prove to be a key resource for solving some of our most pressing real-world problems," according to game designer Jane McGonigal in The Wall Street Journal. Gamers are exactly the kinds of people you want helping your organization succeed. Personality quizzes that help educate people about your cause. When we play, we.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2007

In order to be successful in the future, a nonprofit must truly look within and figure out what we stands for, what makes each of us different, what value we bring to society and why people should love us. To create a new comment, use the form below. Why am I buying this? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Post Calls to Action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Today, I feature a guest post by Garret Kramer: The Problem-solving Fast Track By Garret Kramer Author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life In virtually every business, organization, or family in the world today, people are doing their best to solve problems. And that's admirable. Even me, at times.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Chris Bernard, Idealware The New York City Anti-Violence Project was founded in 1980 as a reaction to neighborhood incidents of anti-LGBT violence.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. We''ve kept in touch over the years as our careers evolved--mine in museums, his in journalism--and I called David to learn more about the story behind the article.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 21, 2009

The closing of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's print operations a few weeks back, coupled with Hearst Corporation's announcement that may close the venerable San Francisco Chronicle as well, has brought the plight of print journalism into focus. What we need is journalism." After all, he points out, people pay to text.

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See3

OCTOBER 27, 2008

It’s about an inventor who, instead of writing a paper seen by a few tens of people in a journal instead made YouTube videos and became a huge sensation. Link [ New York Times ]. In the Times yesterday is a story with the title “ If No One Sees It, Is It An Invention ?&#

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2019

“ Why the Human Connection Still Eclipses Technology “ Genevieve Piturro was a successful television marketing executive in New York City for twenty years when a little girl’s question changed the course of her life forever. Genevieve Piturro. Founder, Pajama Program. Justin Wheeler. Get your tickets today!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. 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. Feeding people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. An ecosystem where its members connect, interact, and support not just the people in their circles but people they ‘bump into’ based on some ‘random’ interest and connection. I hate it…It’s not the music that’s the best, it’s the music that the most people can stand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Brooks, "people who give money to charity are 43 percent more likely than nongivers to say they are very happy. According to a March 2008 New York Times article, Yes, Money Can Buy Happiness. Keep a Gratitude Journal. Take a little time each day to write down the things you appreciate in your life in a Gratitude Journal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2012

A social network is defined as "an organized set of people that consists of two kinds of elements: human beings and the connections between them," (Christakis, pg. The connection between two people within a social network is referred to as a tie. New York, NY: Hachette Book Group. American Journal of Sociology , 78.6

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2011

So many people have a dream of what they want in life, but never take a step toward it. He tells the story of a person boarding a ship in New York headed to England. This is such a simple thing, but has profound consequences. There are basically 2 steps to getting what you want. Have a dream. Take action. How simple is that?

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See3

JANUARY 21, 2009

Internet traffic hit a record peak on Tuesday as millions of people around the world sought to watch and read about the inauguration of President Obama. The web isn’t quite ready to handle the traffic, but we are seeing video content bringing more people online and keeping them online for longer. At its peak, CNN.com fed 1.3

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2008

As Tactical Philanthropy's post, Millennials as Social Citizens, observes, " USA Today reports that they volunteer more than any previous generation, and the Wall Street Journal reports today that corporations are finding that one of the best ways to attract them as employees is to offer them paid time off to volunteer."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2009

In addition, he also suggests that the news media a big part of the problem: There are lots of people who ‘get it’ — consultants, nonprofit leaders, technology people and such. And in my experience, most of the news media doesn’t ‘get it.’ Its a slow process, but progress is definitely being made.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

More content) Birdie's stories have appeared in many online and print journals, including Good Housekeeping, The San Diego Reader, Adoption Today, Mipoesias , and the American Press Institute's Media Center blog. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 5, 2011

are foreign-born immigrants, and 70% are concentrated in seven states: California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Arizona, and New Jersey. Journal of Consumer Policy , 26, 42-73. That means Hispanics' share of the nation's total population would nearly double, from 12.6% About 40% of Hispanics in the U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

One of today's New York Times' headlines is, Economy Shed 598,000 Jobs in January. Also, people often share job openings with their LinkedIn network before they post it elsewhere. What suggestions do you have for how people can use the web to find a nonprofit job? Within two weeks she had a job.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It is particularly easy for business people to lie. The people in the Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania, AES plant learned what many workers and managers know across the country: They learned who is responsible for the way things run. Peter Drucker has pointed out that our educational system is obsessed with people''s weaknesses.

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