Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. It didn’t take long).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Mobile phones and screen can be distracting and overwhelming. In addition, he teaches industry innovators how to use his models and methods in Behavior Design. The purpose of his research and teaching is to help millions of people improve their lives. Even worse they can be addictive. Not all technology is bad.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Candid

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

After over 20 years of fundraising, consulting, and teaching nonprofits across the U.S., Consider building regular check-ins with your donors, either via phone, email, Zoom, or in-person, to share updates about your work. For example, Candid’s development team aims to do this quarterly to strengthen our relationship with our funders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2006

I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

There were a million scenarios and questions going through my head related to COVID-19, teaching remotely/hyflex/in person, reviewing assessment strategies, evaluating digital learning tools, maintaining student connection and community, etc. Luckily, after a few COVID-19 Zoom phone calls and a bunch of trial and error, we got the “Success!”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Then my phone rings, and I’m looking at it, and I’m being distracted from my distractions! You can bet I’m going to spend those 20 years getting to be the best at something instead of phoning it in and whining. You can’t phone it in. Now, the most dangerous distractions are the ones that you don’t know are distracting you.

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M+R

APRIL 13, 2023

Volunteers self-selecting into text banking, phone banking, social media, community mobilization, and/or storytelling. Here are some key strategies NVP used: Hosting weekly mobilization calls to welcome all volunteers into NVP and ensure people are getting plugged into immediate actions in less than 24 hours of event attendance.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

If people can’t engage with your organization on their phones, tablets, and through social media, you could be at a serious disadvantage. This book can teach you how to incorporate a storytelling framework into your communications that shows supporters how they are the true heroes in advancing your cause.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Cell phones and "smartphones" are easily the greatest additions to accessible emergency preparedness and disaster response. Virtually any nonprofit can dramatically increase its level of emergency preparedness and planning efficiency by embracing cell phone technology. Some of the most basic things to program include: read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. If you have not read it, please do.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place. I was writing my books for the vast majority of leaders, parents, and salespeople who would do wonderful things with what I was teaching them. If you have not read it, please do.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2021

Today I want to help you avoid my mistake by teaching you what I’ve learned. Yet the bigger organizations tend to know this stuff because they have a system in place where staff teach other staff and train their replacements. . Follow up with a phone call. If not now, ask for permission to spend a few minutes now on the phone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 7, 2021

He teaches leaders the foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts and hopes -- all necessary to enable effective and lasting (sustainable) change in today's constantly changing world. You'll also likely enjoy as I did all the great leadership quotes sprinkled throughout the book, such as these: Losing good people is costly.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

You will probably need to hire a WordPress developer to build your site, but your developer can teach you how to make updates after your site goes live. Or will snapshots from cell phones work for your website to convey the grassroots nature of your work? Test every page of your website and make sure it displays correctly on a phone.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

No matter what type of business, organization or team you lead, teach your team members/ employees the need for and importance of internal customer service. Return phone calls on a timely basis. Too often, we think of only external customer service, and forget about the need for excellent internal customer service. Answer e-mails.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

Give them a “Tweetutorial”: Most likely, your CEO uses a mobile phone. Give them a “Tweetutorial” of how to use Twitter on their mobile phone and the basic commands. Here’s a collection of cheat sheets that you can use to teach any Nonprofit CEO almost any social media channel.

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Greater Giving

MAY 12, 2021

Interactions delivered during the solicitation phase come in many shapes and forms and through many different communication methods, like the phone, social media, direct mail, text message, etc. Teach your team the importance of open-ended conversation to encourage your donors to be more forthcoming with information.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Jesus is my savior in the sense that I believe that what he came here to teach us can save me, and us from the results of our worst natures. Watching TV or movies on my laptop/computer/tablet/phone/etc. (no But I don't believe the "Jesus died for your sins, believe in him so you can go to heaven instead of hell" thing.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

In this interview, Julia shares some of the strategies she teaches her clients, including her secret formula for social media calendars, how nonprofits can improve engagement on their social channels, and the one thing she wishes nonprofits would stop doing online. Take your phone and do an executive director’s report! It does not.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 7, 2024

Drawing on her experience as a successful businesswoman, Greer is now out to “save giving” by teaching nonprofits how to improve the ways they interact with donors. They don’t have a couple of hours for lunch; they don’t take long phone calls; they don’t write checks. As of 2023, there were 1.79 So, a DAF is an appealing option.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Here are 70 things you can do: Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 20, 2023

She reached out to me at least quarterly, we had phone calls, Zoom calls, and even met in person for coffee. The Maimonides “Golden Ladder” of Giving says capacity giving (teach a person to fish), and anonymous (no credit needed) gifts, are the “highest,” but I’ve never really held to that. But will it help you fulfill your potential?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

In 2020, NAACP moved 200,000 volunteers entirely online for phone banking and canvassing — and created a central place to capture all of the data generated from that outreach so that they can learn from it and optimize their fundraising efforts in the future. About the Author.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

As the years pass, cell phones will remain an ever-growing way to access the internet. What a website would look like and how it would behave at smaller viewports (in this case, phones, and eventually, tablets) was often an afterthought. billion people across the globe. The genesis of the mobile-first approach.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kwanzaa teaches that giving back is a necessity, so reciprocity and philanthropy are inherent to the holiday. In addition to face-to-face connections, appeals can be sent via email, promoted on social media, introduced by phone, and mailed directly to donors. Online Giving. Make it easy for your donors to give online.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Grants totaling $23.5 Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 3, 2019

Nights this month, unplug from your mobile phone and both enjoy and learn from Henry Mintzberg ’s 42 former blog posts compiled into his new book, Bedtime Stories for Managers. The stories teach you how to transform an organization from one that: Functions as collections of Human Resources to communities of human beings.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 30, 2024

Nonprofit Fundraising Support One of my favorite pieces of Greater Giving is that they have a robust Help section with a plethora of articles, instructions, and tutorial videos to teach new and experienced users alike the correct way to set up each of the elements in the software to best support your unique event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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