Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots. Van Gorder : Reinvention starts with a positive attitude.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 67

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

If you're in the Bay Area, you can join her classes at Hipline and Inside Outside Fitness. These thoughts changed how I moved, and dance became a self-conscious, self-critical experience, which was a bigger reflection on how I lived life and viewed myself within it. I taught my classes by mixing kickboxing with dance.

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Fun Work Classes Blogher 55

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

People kept seeking you out because, instead of acting like the stereotypical IT guy, speaking only in tech-ese, you answered their questions and helped them feel a bit less intimidated by tech tools. Initially, the shift from "accidental techie" to a career NPtechie is more about a change in your own attitude than anything else.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So what we’re seeing is a shrinking of the middle class that historically provided the base, the backbone of most donor programs. . But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. .

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Money Question Raise Video 106

The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 9, 2024

The board’s attitude towards fundraising. Utilizing online platforms for crowdfunding can tap into a wider audience and attract small donations from a large number of people. Their seasoned insight, like a trusty sidekick, balances lofty ambition with a spoonful of pragmatism.

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Impact Fundraising Nonprofit Fund 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning. With social media as with communications strategies, the data points are those that will help measure: awareness, attitudes, actions, or behavior change. Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical.

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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. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and around the world.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

Tuberculosis is traveling business class. Of course, there's a basic tension for museums that feel both "the obligation to be reflective and considerate, and the seeming imperative to react to emergent issues." Global warming is nothing new, but it's hot right now--so people perceive related exhibits and programs as timely.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Thanks to custom development and integration with Salesforce , the site instantly reflects every gift ICA receives! With seasonal exhibits, summer camps, and daily classes and programs featuring their diverse array of live animals, Darien Nature Center is a vibrant part of the local community, and their website illustrates that perfectly!

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Websites Organization Nonprofit Site 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, NAS brought 25 people (including me) to Washington to discuss what issues might be appropriate to cover in the report, which is at least 3 years from hitting the press (assuming it receives funding). Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power.

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. And your book, in many ways, focuses on these people, many of whom are coming through the halls of Stanford where you all teach. I’m Amy Costello.

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