Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I love to use principles of psychology, neuroscience and behavioral economics to shortcut donor decision-making, and one of my favorite resources is Dr. Daniel Kahneman, behavioral economist and author of the bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow. EXAMPLE: I’m told the storied philanthropist and fundraiser, John D.

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Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Are you looking for a better way to tell your organization's story? In this webinar you will learn: What the story wars are and why you need to join the fray! How to create your own Story Strategy Map. Tired of watching your cause drown in the flood of marketing messages that surround us?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Blencoe : I wrote the book because I felt there was a need for a book about management techniques that was short and interesting to read but also had depth. I think the management techniques that are discussed in the book are extremely important for several reasons. None of these versions was in the format of a story.

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Achieve

JANUARY 6, 2021

Knowing your beneficiaries’ needs and stories will inspire your year-end creative direction. . Donors should be exposed to the solicitation story through various approaches. . Extend the narrative of the story across multiple solicitations. . Plan stories across all channels based on your audience. About the Author.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Because, Thursday, September 8 brings the official release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. It causes buyers to put down their defenses.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tools and techniques, both virtual and in person Tools and techniques that facilitate visual thinking can significantly improve brainstorming outcomes. It needs to be captured in a group memory, readily available for all to see—something I learned years ago from Michael Doyle, author of How to Make Meetings Work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. The book is filled with dramatic stories of how successful leaders overcame great challenges to build highly successful organizations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 21, 2021

"Today's customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the must-read book , Evergreen. 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. When was it started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2017

The techniques that individuals can use to build resilience are a combination of mind shifts (from negative to positive) and mindfulness. The techniques help professionals build the self-awareness – so when work and life come to a full boil, you can bounce back. Resilience as a concept is not new. ” offers some good tips.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 17, 2020

"Today's customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the must-read book , Evergreen. 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. When was it started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world.”

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Among other things, brand SERPs include the most important pages on your site, your most recent social activity, your Wikipedia page (if you have one), and the latest news stories about your company. To do this, they use a variety of techniques, including public relations management, content marketing and technical SEO. . Author Bio.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? It is somewhat personal but doesn't ask the respondent to be an authority in describing the book, just in sharing why he would recommend it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? It is somewhat personal but doesn't ask the respondent to be an authority in describing the book, just in sharing why he would recommend it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

"Today's customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the must-read book , Evergreen. 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. When was it started?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. Let your stakeholders share their story and passion about your organization – from the heart and humor work. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 25, 2019

While fundraising communications are often counterintuitive to people outside of the field, the reality is that it most of its best practices are grounded in time-tested techniques and principles of classical rhetoric ?defined How can nonprofit leaders harness this tendency for good? Keep them hooked. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

"Today's customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the must-read book , Evergreen. 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. When was it started?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. It really begged to be written, all these great stories, and there are hundreds more all over the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2017

Authored by Capulet’s Julie Szabo and Darren Barefoot, this report is based on in-depth interviews with leading practitioners and a literature review. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. About the Authors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I am excited to announce that I am working on my next book, tentatively titled “The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout.” I’m honored to be co-authoring this book with Aliza Sherman to be published in 2017 by Wiley. Aliza is also a prolific writer and author, having published ten books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In collaboration with DataKind, we developed an algorithm that sweeps through 44 news media outlets and any stories they publish on refugees or immigration. We use natural language processing, a machine-learning technique, to generate a summary of topics and sentiment of individual news stories.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 7, 2018

“Today’s savvy buyers are impatient with old-school selling tactics and stereotypical sales behaviors,” explain the authors of the new book, Stop Selling And Start Leading: How to Make Extraordinary Sales Happen. Make buyers feel significant or important. Calvert : No approach is going to yield a 100% rate of buyer openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

Melanie and Chad have patiently and generously shared their best secrets and time-saving tips to help nonprofits quickly implement social media. Aside from the great step-by-step “cheat sheets,” the book also profiles stories from 113 nonprofit organizations to illustrate the techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

“Batch Concepts” – If you are working on five different stories, don’t jump around. Work on each story or topic until you are finished and go to the next. What techniques do you use to keep focused and productive? This helps improve memory and synthesis.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Despite these trends, research on philanthropy across diverse communities is limited and many questions remain unknown, including what motivates the giving practices of diverse donors, where they give, and what specific tools and techniques donors of color are utilizing to enhance their giving. About the Author.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Last month brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's new book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. I'm a big fan of Paul's earlier best-sellers, including Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story. It causes buyers to put down their defenses. Storytelling is a skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is filled with stories of people and organizations that have more recently harnessed new power, both well-known examples like the Pope and lesser-known examples too. We are also seeing that our hopes for toppling dictators are diminishing because the authoritarian leaders are mastering new power techniques.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

"Today's customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the new, must-read book , Evergreen. 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

DECEMBER 23, 2013

But if you want to get even deeper insights, do an in-depth review of a similar nonprofit’s practice – whether it be broad – such as digital marketing techniques or narrow such as analyzing specific techniques as part of a content strategy. Identify Your Unique Value Proposition & Broadcast it to Your Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. More about the book here. The book is available on Amazon. You can pick up a copy here.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2012

Author: Corey Pudhorodsky. While an official definition may be arguable, I would define transmedia story telling as a technique in telling a story where multiple platforms or channels are necessary to tell the whole story. They are similar but I believe the nuanced differences are important.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Synopsis: The conversations on social media can really tell a rich story about your brand, topic, cause, target audiences, or other area of interest. It is important to develop effective listening techniques in order to make decisions and justify activities based on these stories. How many followers does the author have?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Here’s a sample of our accomplishments: Martus , our secure, open-source information management software for human rights defenders continued to empower many human rights groups worldwide to secure thousands of stories of human rights violations and to use this information strategically to advance their causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

This month’s carnival was an opportunity for nonprofit bloggers to share a post that addressed this question: What self-care techniques, rituals, or habits do you personally live and breath everyday that keep you inspired, calm, and effective at your nonprofit? Making New Habits and Keeping Them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2015

"Today''s customers demand something unlike anything they have ever wanted in the past -- a connection with your business," explains Noah Fleming , author of the new, must-read book , Evergreen. 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

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . When you map your network, it tells you a story. He is a self-described " Internet Sociologist " and developer of NodeXL.

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