Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I usually draw from these sources to create “instructional resources” for any workshop or class I teach. Here’s an example from a recent webinar on training. But I also regularly read books as part of my ongoing self-directed learning. This six-step instructional model is called “ENGAGE.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. They pull what they learn about everything—be it product innovation or how to inspire a team—from their lived experience,” adds Lembi. They are information extractors. Just listen.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, reading Eduardo Briceño ’s bold and highly applicable book, The Performance Paradox , will help you break free of chronic performance. For example, transitioning from the Performance Zone to Learning Zone means moving from: performing activities and goals to improvement activities and goals.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A global biological disaster was unique in our current experience. Read more of Kevin’s story in our Book “ Association 4.0: CEOs must be role models for their teams. Tolerating failure—Being brave enough to risk failure and optimistic enough to bounce back and continue experimenting. Here’s an example from my experience.

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JULY 10, 2023

Our books “Positioning for Success in an Era of Disruption” and “An Entrepreneurial Approach to Risk, Courage, and Transformation,” summarize those conversations. Both books were written before the pandemic’s curveball. Better yet, set the example of being agile, innovative and forward-thinking—don’t wait to respond to change.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. They pull what they learn about everything—be it product innovation or how to inspire a team—from their lived experience,” adds Lembi. They are information extractors. Just listen.

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Be creative – Make it fun for members by offering them an experience they want to participate in or a benefit they want in exchange for the data they’re giving you. For instance, at an event recently, the speaker offered to give his book away for free to anyone who sent him a text with their contact information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2013

Colleagues Kari Dunn Saratovsky and Derrick Feldmann have published a new book called Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement. The book is a great read for nonprofit leaders of all generations. I found the chapter about motivations and tips for encouraging Millennnials to volunteer very valuable.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 21, 2023

Several years ago, my business partner Kevin Ordonez and I, wrote two books. When you cultivate the zeal for discovery and use innovation like an entrepreneur, your example ignites that excitement across the organization. They are role models who inspire teams to see from a different perspective. But you have options.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The initial wave of generative-AI examples in the art, music, and written composition spaces has generated a lot of interest within the technology sector. For this post we’ll highlight a few examples from our own experimentation, explaining what we see going on and what we’ve learned. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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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.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

” This books updates their experiences and provides easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Here’s a few ideas, concepts, and insights from the book that resonated. Generative Social-Impact Network. Network Types. Each one is different in its DNA.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

Today's FLASHBACK to earlier in the year: It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list. It’s that good.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

By Scot Chisholm , CEO and Co-founder of Classy ––a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Lower the barrier to entry for participants (with less time off, no flights, and no hotel bookings).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

We are most excited about the human side of AI and how it will augment the work of fundraisers and create a better experience for donors. These E-books, research, and articles will get you up to speed. Do you have access to people with expertise to build the algorithm for predictive models? What about your nonprofit?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s only January and the new book, When Everyone Leads , could likely be my pick for the best new leadership book of 2023. There’s still nearly a whole year ahead of us so we’ll see what other books debut. In the meantime, add this book to your must-read list. It’s that good. It is hopeful and forward-looking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. I guess you could say it is an example of in-bound marketing. Example : Lets say 20 people on the list below retweet the article (more on how to make this happen a little later).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Here’s a brief definition and cultural example of each: • In contributory projects, users are solicited to provide limited and specified objects, actions, or ideas to an institutionally controlled process. No one model is better than the others.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. For example, a baseball basket could include a ball signed by a famous player, a jersey, and season tickets to home games. Art that has personal meaning for your community is also a safe bet.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

“How you show up, what you stand for, and what actions you take to that end—as an individual and as a leader in your organization—are now gating factors to lasting success,” explains Frank Calderoni in his new book, UPSTANDING: How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth. It is earned as much as it is defined.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

This is a must-read book whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur or a current entrepreneur. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? In a peer learning situation, people may make stronger connections with others and develop working relationships that may go beyond the learning experience.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Dustin Pitts, Solution Engineer at Salesforce.org: NPSP allows you to know each donor to deliver exceptional experiences. Assess Your Data & Map it to Your New Model. Your nonprofit can harness the experience of thousands of nonprofits using NPSP while maintaining the flexibility to customize processes for your unique needs.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” Next, funders stunt risk with their beloved wait-and-see approach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

And though they use the massive sets of data they collect to help create a better experience for their consumers (such as customized ads or tailored movie recommendations), their primary goal is to use what they learn to maximize profits. But can Big Data also create positive social change? Talk about Big Data!

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Black Cat Rescue works to improve the public image of both black cats and animal adoption by making black cat adoption a positive experience for all involved, especially around Halloween when the focus on black cats is high. Born This Way Foundation. Star Wars: Force for Change.

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JUNE 7, 2012

E-books and e-readers are a growing part of the attention ecosystem. Nonprofits struggling to communicate complex issues in 140 characters can benefit from deploying e-books and other long-form content as part of a thoughtful mobile and social media strategy. The audience for an e-book may be larger than you thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2019

Salesforce.Org recently published an e-book, AI for Good: Nonprofit Trends & Use Cases. AI makes your daily experience smarter, by embedding predictive analysis into everyday apps. AI makes your daily experience smarter, by embedding predictive analysis into everyday apps.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The price of your virtual event needs to be low enough to offer value to your target audience but also high enough to convey that your event provides an experience worth having. You are not offering the same type of experiences to attendees so can you charge the same amount? You are still providing a unique experience.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

I just finished reading Kentaro Toyama’s new book, Geek Heresy, tackling the cult of technology as a cure-all for society’s ills. There’s often more value to me in reading iconoclastic books than feel-good affirmations of popular icons! At the same time, there are some flaws in his arguments that are worth pointing out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

O’Reilly took us through some examples of designing with citizens in mind can radically change the trust equation. Samasource is an enterprise digital services through a unique Microwork model that harnesses the untapped potential of the world’s poor. Sama” means equal.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Today, we look back to 2016 : 2016 brought the much anticipated release of Paul Smith 's book, Sell with a Story: How to Capture Attention, Build Trust, and Close the Sale. When the book was published, Paul kindly answered the following questions about the book : Question: What drove your decision to write this book?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Today, the following expert business and leadership book authors shared their advice for how to effectively lead during 2021. When leaders admit to their own challenges instead of portraying a strong and stoic model of unshakability (on the outside), teams grow together, not apart. It's the same with stress.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 25, 2016

Ever wondered about the do's and don'ts of writing a: Business Apology Letter of Recommendation Job Advertisement Interview Follow-up Press Release Executive Summary Collection Letter Resignation Letter.then, the book, How To Write Anything: A Complete Guide is for you. She's also taught composition and literature at Columbia University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. In the book, we share a couple of case studies and examples of engagement models.

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