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Five Must-Read Business Books To Read This Summer

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. His advice? Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode.

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Five Must-Read Books For Leaders This Fall

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. His advice? Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode.

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Writing for Fundraising: Fundraising Appeal Writing Tips for Non-Profit Professionals

The Storytelling Non-profit

One of my professional mantras is that everything is a process ( including storytelling ). Vanessa of today knows that this is merely what my brain wants to do and if I don’t feed into, it will pass, and I can get to work. Writing for Fundraising is a Process. Vanessa circa 2012 would let this phase turn into full on procrastination.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. So much of social media success is about how our brains process and prioritize messages and having a diverse thought process that sparks our imagination and creativity.

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Five Leadership And Business Books To Read This Fall

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. This book, by Brain Solis, details the incredible transformation happening in business today, driven by new social and mobile technologies. His advice? Most important, they put the listener in a mental learning mode.

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What I learned from Jad Abumrad About the Secrets of Creative Risk Taking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. He referred to a Stanford study that showed that successful, brilliant creative people go through a game of ping pong in their brains as they create: This is good!

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re also pulling our Silicon Valley brain trust into these new Labs projects by creating a new kind of nonprofit advisory board, the Benetech Labs Partners. Not only does it raise risk capital for Benetech, but we also actually want the advice! We already have many exciting ideas flow into the Labs.

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