Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We chose where to go deep based on what we observed from delivering leadership training programs in hundreds of global companies and what we ourselves experienced running our own two companies. Abilitie’s clients include some of the world’s most recognizable brands such as Coca-Cola, The New York Times , and Dell.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

For more than a decade, Nadine has worked at the intersection of policy and media in major markets including New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. She was the Assistant Director of Communications at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and then head of media for Foreign Affairs magazine in New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2017

I have my go-to global organizations that do a great job at relief efforts on the ground, set up funds for long-term rebuilding, or do a terrific job of vetting local charities to support. This article in the New York Times provides some good advice. For example, Global Giving. They have a fund set up for Puerto Rico.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. Blog Posts. Using Twitter for a Global Conversation. Please add your favorite blog posts or examples to the list, too! Twitter for fundraising. Twitter (from We Are Media). Twitter API wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2021

10 Creative Ways To Incorporate Quick Bursts of Exercise – Thrive Global. 7-Minute Exercise Snack – New York Times. What are some ways that you incorporate exercise snacking into your routine? Try Exercise Snacks – Get the Gloss. Exercise Snacking Week – Good Morning America.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

As the creator of the iconic “Corner Office” column in the New York Times , Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership. Here’s another must-read book to add to your list as you transition from manager to leader. It’s The Leap to Leader , by Adam Bryant.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 24, 2021

Salesforce will be hosting attendees in San Francisco, New York, London, and Paris, marking the first-ever global Dreamforce. It provides an opportunity to break down communication barriers and distance to solve challenges, learn from each other’s experiences, and share more globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

I asked this question on my Facebook brand page, and here’s what I learned: The New York Public Library Photo Booth. The New York Public Library is using selfies as part of its social media initiative to engage library patrons. Flickr Photo - NYPL Photo Booth. Family is Familia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2010

New York City. Moderated by Stephanie Strom of the New York Times. I also want to thank everyone who has written about the ideas in the book: Social Action Learning: Touching the Hand of Those in Need Coolcat Teacher Blog, Vicky Davis. The Networked Nonprofit by the HandsOn Blog. Details here. Conference.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Last week, the New York Times ran an article exploring a segment of the nonprofit/social impact sector that the author saw as a small minority of organizations, but one I care deeply about: those that plan to go out of business. The article featured Malaria No More, and their vision of the project’s work: to end Malaria.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. He has appeared in the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Town and Country , O, the Oprah Magazine and other national media. This reality likely disproportionately impacted midlife individuals.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many blogHers, like Rebeca at the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day.    But, on Friday, my blog turned from red to pink!    Maybe more women in the nonprofit technology space will turn their blogs pink!! .  What color is your blog? 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I couldn't attend the Global s Summit this year in person, but did it via IRC ever so briefly. Tunisian exile Sami Ben Gharbia is the creator of the Tunisian Prison Map -- an idea inspired by a New York Times interactive map charting murder locations. in New York City. in New York City.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Sometimes the best way to get started with a new tool is to have a guide sitting next to you giving directions. That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts — but there's a special magic that happens when we get face to face.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2023

As the creator of the iconic “Corner Office” column in the New York Times , Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership. Here’s another must-read book to add to your list as you transition from manager to leader. It’s The Leap to Leader , by Adam Bryant.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). With so many new ventures founded every day, it is becoming increasingly more difficult for me to decipher what the social purposes of some initiatives are.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

For the full list of strategic lessons learned in our last Nonprofits Live session, visit the Amoration blog. Games are a $60 billion global industry. (MB). ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their. Game Audiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): Blog Action Day is October 15th. 4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B. Change.org is hiring bloggers. This year's theme is climate change.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2009

I have a new blog post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion blog. In a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times , David Brooks compared the global response vs localized response to the outbreak. Visit the SSIR opinion blog here. Check it out here! Power to the People.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Many of us are familiar with the term " Social Graph " defined as the global mapping of everybody and how they're related. That inspired the above illustration - the social life of a blog post. Click to see larger image And, blogging was not just about conversations on your home base, but also on other blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2011

Speakers include Guy Kawasaki , author of the new book “Enchantment,” JD Lasica of SocialBrite , Susan Gordon of Causes.com, Charles Porch of Facebook, Darian Rodriguez Heyman , Susan Tenby of TechSoup Global and Kellie McElhaney, founding faculty director of the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Theresa Williamson , founder and executive director of Rio de Janeiro-based Catalytic Communities, shares updates from that city as it prepares for the World Cup in her op-ed piece for the New York Times, It''s Just the Beginning,; Change Will Come To Brazil. Read about their inspiring work in a recent TechSoup Global interview.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. So many people I’ve talked to have no idea where they are going or want to go once they hit their mid-forties,” shares Michael Clinton , author of the new book, ROAR into the Second Half of Your Life - Before It’s Too Late.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Since early December, the issue has been covered on over 60 nonprofit and philanthropy blogs, technology blogs and press, and news publications, including The New York Times , Huffington Post , The Guardian , Chronicle of Philanthropy , Nonprofit Quarterly , Cause Marketing Forum , and Foundation Center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Yesterday was the fourth Giving Tuesday , a global day of community-driven philanthropy. Global Giving did a creative campaign to encourage people to share why they give. Thank you Henry Timms, Aaron Sherinian, and the many others around the world who have made Giving Tuesday and the notion of giving back a global event.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The global pandemic has awakened people of all ages to just how fragile and finite life can be. He has appeared in the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Town and Country , O, the Oprah Magazine and other national media. This reality likely disproportionately impacted midlife individuals.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

This blog post originally appeared as an article on the Nonprofit Times’ website. Do Good Dialogue speakers included: Lawrence Grodeska and Amanda Kloer, Change.org ; Tammy Gordon, AARP ; Brad Smith, WebVisions ; Michael Slaby, nonprofit advisor; Eilene Zimmerman, New York Times ; and Jason Ulaszek, UX for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

It’s big, it’s inspiring, and it helps me think more clearly about Global Fund for Children’s work to scout, support and strengthen grassroots groups serving vulnerable children around the globe. This has been our metrics mantra at The Global Fund for Children, but now Andy Goodman of The Goodman Center has validated it.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Reality TV star and AIDS activist Jack Mackenroth has launched the HIV Shower Selfie Challenge to help raise money for Housing Works, a New York-based non-profit organisation fighting to end AIDS and homelessness globally by 2030." ''via Blog this'''

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AFP Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

Foundation Center - Press Release - Foundation Center Launches GrantCraft Makeover : Foundation Center Launches GrantCraft Makeover Intuitive Design Is Hallmark of Global Community of Learning for Philanthropy New York, NY — June 25, 2014.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Net2Local is a project of TechSoup Global that invites activists, techies, nonprofits and the social good community together to meet monthly in 50 cities around the world. We’re a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. We’d love to help you start a new meetup. Newest Net2Local Groups. Mukono, Uganda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Sticky Note from TechSoup Global Summit (click on image for wiki). Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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