Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Phillips, includes many more leadership lessons from Lincoln in his fascinating book, Lincoln on Leadership , where Phillips presents 15 of Lincoln''s leadership statements in today''s vernacular. Stories are important because they are memorable. They teach. Employees learn largely by stories and not mounds of data.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 15, 2014

On this Father''s Day , I thank my dad for teaching me the following business and life lessons : Listen - Growing up, I thought my Dad was perhaps shy or quiet. Music lessons. He loved to learn. He loved even more to teach. He lived to help other people learn. Really, he was just a great listener.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2016

Even lessons I learned when I didn't at the time necessarily realize I was learning from him. So, I thank my dad for teaching me the following business and life lessons : Listen - Growing up, I thought my Dad was perhaps shy or quiet. Music lessons. He loved to learn. He loved even more to teach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

In my training work with emerging nonprofit leaders , teaching how to ask powerful questions and hone your listening skills is part of the leadership development curriculum and workshops. Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy – Guest Post by Melinda T. Closing the Feedback Loop.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Phillips, includes many more leadership lessons from Lincoln in his fascinating book, Lincoln on Leadership , where Phillips presents 15 of Lincoln's leadership statements in today's vernacular. Stories are important because they are memorable. They teach. Employees learn largely by stories and not mounds of data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

I had the honor of being a guest facilitator at a transformative leadership retreat with colleagues Heather McLeod Grant, Chris Block, Lance Fors, and David Havens – I got to teach but more importantly got to learn from amazing people. More importantly, this experiential learning — not just discussion.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 9, 2023

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 2, 2014

And, if you’re like most everyone, you appreciate hearing a good story. Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. Well, that’s exactly what you get when you read the new book , Roadside MBA: Back Road Lessons for Entrepreneurs,Executives and Small Business Owners. we haven''t made it to yet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2015

On this Father's Day , I thank my dad for teaching me the following business and life lessons : Listen - Growing up, I thought my Dad was perhaps shy or quiet. Music lessons. He loved to learn. He loved even more to teach. He lived to help other people learn. Really, he was just a great listener.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Phillips, includes many more leadership lessons from Lincoln in his fascinating book, Lincoln on Leadership , where Phillips presents 15 of Lincoln's leadership statements in today's vernacular. Stories are important because they are memorable. They teach. Employees learn largely by stories and not mounds of data.

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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. Platform builder. Storytelling is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2015

Note from Beth: For the past two years, I’ve had the honor of facilitating a peer learning exchange of Knight Grantees who are hosting Giving Days. What Sesame Street Can Teach Us About the Giving Challenge – Guest Post by Susie Bowie. Flickr Image from Carlos ZGZ. Click here if you need some Sesame Street video time.).

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Hosted by Salesforce.org Chief Customer Officer Rob Acker, Cloud for Good Founder & CEO Tal Frankfurt and CARE Head of Corporate Partnerships Chris Noble discussed the strategies and technologies that help them be nimble enough to respond to emergency campaigns, create change regularly, and the lessons they have learned along the way.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2017

households with at least one dog according to ASPCA, many of us don't have to go far to learn about leadership. That's because, according to co-authors Krissi and Dan Barr , dogs can teach humans a lot about leadership. Question : What can business leaders learn from dogs’ natural sense of curiosity? Because 44 percent of U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

You’ll learn how Nonprofit Cloud can increase your organization’s social impact. As we gain perspective following a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll use this opportunity to reflect on what we’ve learned, and how to use those lessons to prepare us for the future.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2021

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Yet, at most foundations, rarely does anyone with a communications background ever review the story this critical document shares with the outside world. The questions we field most often pertain to the story the grants data tells us about where funding is going, where it’s not going, and who does and does not benefit. and Marion L.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 25, 2014

See what you can learn from DoSomething.org. But use this bit of information as a larger lesson. Lately, they’ve been up to making a Snapchat story in partnership with Sprint’s Backseat Adviser campaign , which helps discourage texting and driving. For DoSomething.org, it’s an effective strategy. Featured Social Media'

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story. When was it started?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

It is playbook details the practices for high performance including: testing ideas, measuring impact, funding experimentation, leading collaboratively, and sharing compelling stories. How do you tell your story with data? How to create compelling stories that power growth? How do you measure that impact?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Specifically, you should create content around the “why” of your existence and share the stories that demonstrate your successes in fulfilling your mission. Here are some examples of what you can share: A story they’ll want to enter into. Take a look at how you’re telling your story. . Something useful to them. Arts and culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. Content Delivery Is Not Learning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Today brings a book that is an indispensable resource for public relations practitioners who want to learn how to navigate the ever-changing landscape of public relations – which has become a far cry from primarily writing press releases and establishing media contacts. This new installment, edited by Robert L.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2020

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story. When was it started?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

“Very few of us ever learned how to be present with another person, to ignore internal and external noise and distractions, and to connect and converse with others in useful or collaborative ways,” affirm the authors of the new book, Bridge The Gap: Breakthrough Communication Tools To Transform Work Relationships From Challenging To Collaborative.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

If there’s one thing that I’ve learned in 11 years of writing and millions of dollars I’ve raised, it’s that writing for fundraising is its own genre. Source stories. Do the story and narrative help donors see how they can be on the “good” side? This class will teach you the nuts and bolts of copywriting that raises money.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

My mother taught me many things, and I feel like with every year she teaches me more – whether she knows it or not. The biggest lesson: Everyone has something to give. I can’t think of a lesson, an outlook on life, and a guiding principle for my work that is more about love than this one. Learn more!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Just imagine how intriguing it would be to hear stories about six road trips. that produced dozens of stories about what local small businesses on Main Street’s across America do that can inspire big businesses on Wall Street – or Madison Avenue megabrands, or enterprise of any size -- in today’s economy. Six road trips across the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story. When was it started?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Here are five must-read books for leaders well worth adding to your list: Lead With A Story -- A Guide To Crafting Business Narratives That Captivate, Convince, and Inspire. In the book, you'll find over 100 ready-made stories you can use as templates to tell your stories. What's The Future Of Business? Edited by Edward T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The frameworks and tips we outlined were field tested in real-time as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation with 60 of their grantees who participated in a peer learning/focuss group and contributed many of the case studies. The book also has a social good purpose. Thank you so much!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story. When was it started?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Black Teach Project is the definition of “small but mighty.” Check out the campaign here and learn more about this incredible organization. A recent study they released found that schools are not adequately teaching the history of American slavery. Learn more about the campaign here. Learn more about these leaders here.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Lessons Learned. Here are a few lessons from the front lines of Crowdfunding today: Messaging Matters: In general, successful crowdfunders make laser-focused requests supported with compelling visuals. Provide them with a platform to tell their story, spread the word and accept those donations.

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