Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success. Rapid prototyping —developing a rapid prototype sample product or service and getting it out there quickly to test customer response, then seizing on that feedback to tweak, overhaul, or completely abandon their breakout offering.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2017

Amazon learns from our purchase history to suggest products to us, and Netflix learns from our viewing history to suggest videos we might like. Here's a sample of what they found. Of course, under the hood, it involves complicated algorithms , but you don't need a computer science degree to use it. AI is all over the place now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.”

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

NetSquared’s Global Community Builder , Amy Sample Ward, will be at the NTC this year to connect and collaborate with friends, colleagues and new faces in the sector. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Here’s how to find Amy and connect with NetSquared. My Twitter feed will have quotes, notes and links.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

and Amazon included), and presents a proven expedient route to start-up success. Rapid prototyping —developing a rapid prototype sample product or service and getting it out there quickly to test customer response, then seizing on that feedback to tweak, overhaul, or completely abandon their breakout offering.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2017

So I am thrilled to announce that The Art of Relevance audiobook is now available for YOU to listen to on Audible , Amazon , and iTunes. You can also listen to a five-minute sample from the introduction to get a sense of what it sounds like. I knew if I wanted to make the book relevant and accessible, I should get on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2010

The other wonderful thing is that Amy Sample Ward and Peggy Duvette were in the audience live blogging and I'm so grateful for their notes. Oh, the book comes out in late June, but you can pre-order at a good discount on Amazon. Thank you!) Also, a huge thanks to Geoff Livingston who took fabulous photos !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Here's a sample of Chapter 1. For years, I've been thinking about setting up an amazon store but thought it would be just too much organize given my obsessive compulsive book-acquiring disease. I just ordered my copy. For those who know me, I'm a how-to book addict.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

" Amazon Patents Social Networking System, Winks at Facebook – "The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent for a “Social Networking System.&# Whether you want to watch the dynamic duo live on your computer or just chat with them on Twitter, the party will be a blast."

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NTEN

JUNE 4, 2010

Congrats to Kivi Leroux Miller on her book launch and her amazing Amazon rankings! She also provides a link to a sample dashboard one nonprofit is using. She was nice enough to share back this great slide deck about email newsletter best practices and strategies. Thanks, Barbara!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consider auctioning off a streaming service package with one-year subscriptions to platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, Amazon Prime, and Disney+. In a wine-tasting experience, participants sample a variety of wines while evaluating them using criteria such as appearance, smell, and taste.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Is Amazon building a distribution center near you?Your And no, I don’t mean the volunteer picnic next week (though the Board needs to be aware of it).Your Your Board should be talking about community or economic pressures that may affect your program. Is your landlord selling your building? Is the biggest employer in town closing down?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2012

Another big treat is for me is Amazon Overnight Delivery. It sounds “old-school” but I love to go to my local library every Saturday to wander up and down the stacks. If I'm honest, my hope is that weekly practice will spontaneously ignite the manifestation of my own memoir! Seeing that box on the deck after a long day of work is like magic!

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

If you want to learn how to do it yourself, CNET has a new " Experts Guide to YouTube " Amazon Payments will process your donations for free through September 30th. Amy Sample Ward pointed to the epic Robot vs. Puppy battle , and Lin Hundt tipped us off to Kitten War. What is going on? Keep 'em coming!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. What little remains we will mirror up to virtual servers somewhere, possibly Amazon. On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Here's what they said.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"Indians in the Amazon rainforest are now using Google Earth to protect their lands from illegal logging, to plan for their future and to share their rich history and culture with the world. ." Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

"Indians in the Amazon rainforest are now using Google Earth to protect their lands from illegal logging, to plan for their future and to share their rich history and culture with the world. ." Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Data centers from big companies like Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, and so on have redundant backup systems for emergencies, they have teams of people around the world ensuring updates and patches are done, and they're working hard to fight back against any vulnerabilities that hackers may try to exploit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. 5) Online classes.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Experiment with A/B Testing: Try sending out two different versions of your e-newsletter to small samples of your list -- either with different subject lines, different copy or both. This also gives your organization the opportunity to archive e-newsletters and allow web visitors to read your e-newsletters even if they don’t subscribe.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you need to, use an external mic (you can get a simple lapel mic on Amazon for about $20 – it plus right into your smart phone, easy peasy). I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here. Hold the camera steady or use a tripod. Nothing is worse than a video that makes your viewers motion sick.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Don’t ask people to support your Amazon Smile, grocery store affinity program, search engine donation scam, or anything else that doesn’t generate at least a couple of thousand dollars. Lots of numbers make most people glaze over and that won’t increase reader engagement. Cheap cause marketing. Seriously, please don’t promote these.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Watch this video and take this quiz to enter a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card! Despite a small sample size of 1,110 U.S. Using best practices when it comes to protecting your passwords is a proven way to protect your personal and financial information. Curious how knowledgeable you already are? First, let's go over some facts.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So this is me in the Amazon. So I was working in the Amazon for a really long time. I hadn’t lived in the Amazon before. And I’ll give you a bit more of a sample of this, you know, how can they share what they know? So as I said, when I was working across Latin America, especially in the Amazon.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

Amazone Web Services - for very cheap. OurMedia & Internet Archive - a bit more technical, archived forever, nonprofit organization, RSS and community building tools. upload to Internet Archive and use OurMedia to generate RSS feed, etc. Industry standard is not limiting bandwidth/downloads but only limit upload.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 17, 2010

Can't find it on Amazon. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Turn off your cell phones! (so so annoying and takes away from being present at the meeting) I'd love to find out where to buy the "Best Life: Tips for 2009" booklet. July 19, 2010 4:23 PM Executive Coach Caroline Smith said.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

The 224-page book, at a nice price of $14.99 (now for about $10 on Amazon), provides lots of tips and examples, and even includes the actual appraisal forms used by 10 organizations and associations that are both interesting to review and handy to use as "best practice" documents. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

She saw how the giant condom-shaped balloon emblazoned with the words "Number One" was attracting attention and scores of people were grabbing up free samples of condoms. The book is available at Amazon where there is a product plog Katya is updating regularly. " (See video presentation from netsquared conference here.).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

In retail, Amazon is so 2012. It is a China-based company that now has merchandise sales volume that is more than Amazon and eBay combined. This brave new world is currently being called the Internet of Things. New Industry Leaders. The new leader in that field worldwide is Alibaba or ??????. This is definitely worth checking out.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So take a look at these Amazon skills. If you have a skill, if you have something to teach that you want your audience to know about, you can create your own Alexa skill for free at Amazon. So pretty neat.

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