Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

Seeing this book (circled in the above picture) in the bookstore this week reminded me of my blog post about the book and the author from 2014. Navy SEALs for 20 years, retiring as a commander, and holds an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Cool under fire? Able to sense danger before it's too late? Stern School of Business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

Numbers are a universal langauge. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project's Obesity Epidemic visualization. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Speak With Numbers Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

Observing and picturing (Visual). All of my examples were from universities, Jewish Day schools, and camps that made up the audience. You have to be a little fearless piloting new instructional techniques or you will just do the same old stuff – you’ll get bored and your participants will also be bored.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Numbers are a universal langauge. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Speak With Numbers. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Numbers are a universal langauge. My favorite example of this technique is the Descry Project’s Obesity Epidemic visualization. Here are 6 ways to tell your stories with data that you can apply to your own web and communications work: 1. Speak With Numbers. Sometimes, it's best to just let the numbers speak for themselves.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Like I said, as the senior director of stewardship and communications at the University of Pennsylvania. As Steven said, I’m Valerie Harris, lately of the University of Pennsylvania, now of vharrisprojects.com where I provide courses, workbooks, webinars, and other resources for fundraising professionals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 17, 2012

sees the big picture of what the team or group is there to do and works tirelessly to make that happen, without manipulating the process or its outcome to their own personal advantage. And, he teaches that skill set in his new book, The Synergist -- How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In fact, a study by Yale University found that data doesn't necessarily result in donations, but stories do! Upload your annual report or an infographic that shows a clear picture of your nonprofit's work. Even if you try every technique under the sun, you still might not be able to convert every visitor into a donor.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2014

Lindsey also worked as a graphic designer at the Publications Department for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she graduated with a degree in news editing/journalism. When you set out to apply any of these techniques, make sure not to go overboard. Mention the recognition they’ll get. Motivating factor: greed).

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 12, 2017

As a professor of psychology at Arizona State University, he wanted to understand why he, a psychology professor, was persuaded to buy more and more boxes every year. Think of this as the “foot-in-the-door technique” 3. In this book Cialdini wrote about why he was always duped into buying Girl Scout cookies. Social Proof.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. It has established a universal way to measure web sites. I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. Life was good. "The page view has served us well.

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Basically, what we found was that they were pretty much static bulletin boards: speeches, statements, pictures just posted up there. 2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Basically, what we found was that they were pretty much static bulletin boards: speeches, statements, pictures just posted up there. 2008 is the year in which all the new technologies, techniques, concepts, innovations of so-called new media are being tried. In 1996 a friend and I did a study of presidential campaign websites.

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