Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

She not only shares many compelling and inspiring stories of how passionate social change leaders have built and scaled effective nonprofits, but distills the lessons into useful principles and actionable information. Her book shares useful guidance about so many questions that keep those of us in the social sector up at night.

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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.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Earlier this week, Leslie Poston invited me to participate on her podcast on Race and Social Media along with Shireen Mitchell , Liza Sabiter , and Rahsheen Porter. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

I observed Mam Sari, our head English teacher (and computer geek) teach a Google search lesson and captured video above. It's slow, but he is able to teach a lesson to the students about how to find supplementary materials for their school assignments. Our group was assigned to "Social Media."

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2011

This organization uses sports, specifically basketball, as a vehicle to help youth get motivated in school and learn life lessons while at the same time producing some seriously great athletes. For Team MPhasis, its important to not only teach kids through sports, but to also incorporate our religious beliefs into our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. Joitske Hulsebosch who writes the Lasgna and Chips blog and writes about peer learning in ICD context and use of social media and technology. So, what from this delicious buffet should I put on the plate? That’s the theory at least. Techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2015

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.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. Technological expertise and an understanding with social media others don’t know. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. And that’s an important lesson to learn. Kari: I’m so glad you brought that up.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

What are some of the lessons you''ve learned as a 501 Tech Club organizer? We teach this. If you had to name one piece of advice for nonprofits about managing their online communities, what would you suggest? I used to help teach social media classes at Portland’s tech reuse and education nonprofit, Free Geek.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Bonus tip) Teach a lesson. Social media and technology are the newest tools available to us for storytelling. The availability of social media and other technological tools make it possible for all of us to be media producers. Keep It Simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2015

There will be a lesson learned, there will be clear accountability and you might – just might – have mentored someone in important leadership skills. 4) Acknowledge and celebrate lessons learned from failure. But only if you lead with the belief that failure always teaches everyone something. More than fine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Social Change Behind the Firewall. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

nonprofit leaders , including Daniel Ben-Horin, founder of CompuMentor who predicts, "Successful nonprofit players in the social media space will those who understand the opportunity without being seduced by it." For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. This are great insights for nonprofits who want to work with interns on their social media as I’m sure these are common points of tension.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Finally, this comes from a library techie, but I'm sure that nonprofit techies might agree with the advice, " How To Keep Techies Happy " Marketing, Knowledge Management, and Evaluation Somehow there is a connection between these areas and David Wilcox puts his finger on it with his posts ( here , here , and here ).

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Millennials come to the work place more prepared to teach than previous generations. Technological expertise and an understanding with social media others don't know. The ability to teach, with patience, is essential. And that's an important lesson to learn. Kari: I'm so glad you brought that up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a Social Media Club workshop in Hawaii as part of Podcamp and WordCamp in Hawaii.    I asked folks who was doing interesting social change work with Aloha spirit.   Most don't think they can surf and we get them up and riding on their first lesson! 

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 29, 2022

For 2021, my pick is, Heart First , Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything , by David Grossman , published in July 2021. I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Policing Social Media These two items were both found in the nptech tag stream: Due to a new wiki launched by New Zealand police, members of the public can now contribute to the drafting of a new law.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For 2021, my pick is, Heart First , Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything , by David Grossman , published in July 2021. I selected this book because the book is easy-to-read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 21, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 13, 2010

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. I do this with every social media activity as well as whenever I teach. I remember talking with Stacey Monk on the phone last November about how difficult it is to set goals for social media infused campaigns.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

And generally, we think of people moving from being unaware to observing in fairly low-bar ways, through email, through social media, by visiting your website. They are the people who often control and direct your email marketing or your website or your social media. You have owned media, earned media, and paid media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2015

Through best practices, programming ideas and detailed case studies, the Playbook is designed to help community initiators learn from successful alumni programs and provide them with conceptual guidance, practical advice and tactical support as they plan, shape and implement alumni programming and community-building strategies.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Now that’s social engagement #SFBatkid and it’s evidence to the power of social media. Beth Kanter provides simple, yet super helpful advice on how your organization can keep track of aha moments, lessons, ideas, mistakes and experiences during events. And we talked.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 8, 2010

The answer to that question is likely going to be based on the valuable lessons you shared with those you led. Former employees quoted in the newspaper article remember Mr. Kauffman as a leader who shared these lessons with them: "You can do anything you want if you set your mind to it and if you study your competition." "You

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It is about mentors imparting the multiple lessons that theyve learned to their mentees and helping them better navigate through their own careers. By absorbing these lessons--of mentors mistakes and successes--mentees are better prepared to move forward with knowledge and confidence. Mentoring is all about sharing experiences.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Never Say These Words To A Customer Author Harvey MacKay wrote the following spot-on advice in his recent column in the Kansas City Business Journal. Take a moment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Earlier this year, various discussion groups on the social media site LinkedIn helped me build a list of favorite leadership books. Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2010

Some of the lessons from the book are: "Leadership is equally about creating a climate where the truth is heard and the brutal facts confronted." Good To Great s lessons are for entrepreneurs running small businesses, for CEOs of large businesses, and for leaders and managers within businesses at all management levels.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 2, 2010

Li explains in her new book what it means to be an open leader and why having those skills and behaviors are vital for effectively communicating with customers and employees in todays social media landscape. How To Help Your Employees Click More At Work Lessons From Good To Great How Will You Be Remembered As A Leader?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 4, 2010

. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Sunday, April 4, 2010 Be A Developing Leader One of my favorite lessons from the book, The DNA of Leadership , is the importance of being a developing leader. Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 8, 2010

The Leadership Challenge -- "This book examines the practices that make leaders effective and teaches aspiring leaders how to inspire and lead others," explained Burkus. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Then, use the web and social networking for research.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2010

If not, teach him what he needs to do differently to avoid the mistake from reoccurring. ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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