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. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." If you have not read it, please do. It helps them relax.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

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. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." If you have not read it, please do. It helps them relax.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I wrote a reflection on an article in CNET called " Crowded Roads Ahead for Charity 2.0 " based on an interview with Toby Daniels of Think Social and Scott Harrison of charity:water. Movement building is all about relationship building techniques as Beth mentioned in her reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

’ The book was an inspiration and encouragement for those us whose inner critics have been keeping us away from using the technique in front of other people. The book offers a wonderful road map for a learning journey to internalize these techniques and I’ve practicing a lot.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo: You interviewed 30 women, and organized them by if they were farmers, activists, and different things. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Creating a sustainable funding source takes years, so work hard to keep your overhead as low as possible while you’re building your donor list. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Have several interviews before you offer the job. . Here are some tips: .

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. You’re building trust, you’re building relationship, maybe even friendship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

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. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." Question : Why is capturing attention and building trust so important today versus a decade ago?

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Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Read the full interview with our experts to get answers to questions nonprofit leaders may ask about employee burnout, such as: How has COVID-19 impacted employee burnout and individual stress management? How do you build a culture of resilience with mental health resources for nonprofits? A: Definitely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

You also need to post inviting content on your social channels that builds excitement, anticipation, and engagement about the event. You definitely want to be “Live Tweeting” during the event and encouraging participants to do the same. ” Other amplifier tools include JustCoz and Gaggleamp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. organizational change, and technology. Program Design.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

Surveys and Interviews : Which research technique to choose, how to recruit participants and what questions to ask. Usability Tests : Types of usability tests you can conduct, participant recruiting, task definition and creating a prototype. I hope this series has been useful to you!

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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. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." Question : Why is capturing attention and building trust so important today versus a decade ago?

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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. A great story builds credibility and properly positions you in the eye of the buyer." And I think that’s definitely true. Storytelling is a skill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2008

And, it will usually take a way to build up to a point where it more efficient to moderate than leave open and delete. That's a different issue and you definitely need to use a spam filter. This requires carefully thinking about comment moderation techniques and part of this includes articulating a clear policy about use of moderation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? Not I'm still interested in guest posts about movement building and transparency. Not I'm still interested in guest posts about movement building and transparency. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits? We are storage, after all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

The definition of links or how you're connected is defined however you want. Interesting, one of the backchannel comments was the definition of an expert. My definition is that your knowledge lives in the clouds. This is an area of tools and techniques that I have wanted to explore in further depth, but haven't. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

You can read more in this series of five reports that looks at the definitions, research, power, practices, and insights relating the impact of social networks on family strengthening and community change. There are definitely some shades of gray. It isn't black and white. This is important to keep the network fresh and growing.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Your finances are one area of your operations where you definitely don’t want to leave things up to chance. Meyer Partners’ focus on building relationships with donors through personalized communication shapes their whole strategy and better connects your organization with your supporters. Why They Stand Out. Landing page optimization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? And maybe this should not be an either/or question, but most likely resources will dictate that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

You can hear the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read the transcript below. We believe that, like every consumer movement, it is going to be the first-mover companies and the early brands that build a distribution system. retail market. Priya Haji: My name is Priya Haji. BB: What is the biggest challenge of your work?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 Definitions Of Key Business Terms We talk about, read about and hear about "customers," "mission," and "customer value" all the time and perhaps sometimes we struggle with fully understanding the best definition of those terms. I like Peter F. Says what, in the end, you want to be remembered for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2007

Sean Stannard-Stockton , author of the Tactical Philthanthropy blog, has posted a podcast interview with Daniel Ben-Horin, founder and president CompuMentor and TechSoup where they talk about the NetSquared project and the usefulness of "wisdom of crowd" techniques for nonprofits and philthanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. The definition of adapt is using insights to make corrections to improve results the next time around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

This is a technique I've used as a trainer, but it also works beautifully for social media projects. Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. So, ran a google analytics reports on visitors and there was definitely a rise on the day I gave the presentation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 21, 2010

Sunday, March 21, 2010 Do Exit Interviews Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee. The book is a quick and handy resource for any leader, manager or Human Resource professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2006

As you'll note from that article, Nedra has also been exploring Second Life and we bumped into each other at the TechSoup space there where we completed our interview. I also discovered during our interview that Nedra plays the cello !) What is your (simple) definition of social marketing? Why did you start blogging?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010 Key Interviewing Questions To Ask To Identify Leaders The next time you are interviewing a candidate and you want to access their leadership skills, consider asking the candidate these questions: What personal qualities define you as a leader? How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

These nontraditional audience engagement techniques helped make complex goals and visions explicit and understandable to visitors. Each project also invited visitors to make assets that then were immediately available for others to see and build on.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 12, 2010

Monday, April 12, 2010 Build These Leadership Skills I had the pleasure of interviewing Overland Park, KS-based author Leigh Branham recently. What would the difference of these definitions be? Hes the author of three best-selling books, including Re-engage and The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 26, 2010

I've posted an edited transcript of my interview with Ashley and Carolynn for the Big Vision Podcast. It's more of a technique thing than a pure ingredient thing. For anyone who's considering pulling together their own bake sale, I would definitely say go for it. If there's not one near you, you should definitely start one.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

Friday, August 6, 2010 Lets Build A List Lets build a list of the most important attributes of a good leader, and lets only use one word (or a hyphenated word) at a time to describe each attribute. How To Improve Customer Service With The Telephone. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

So social media influencers, by definition, are people that are active on one or more social networks with a modest to large following who can drive awareness and action around your campaign. It’s kind of alarming but they found that trust, when they globally interviews folks, trust in all four institutions were at an all-time low.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Play Team Sports To Build Leadership Skills Todays high school and college team sport athletes are learning leadership skills that will serve them well when they enter the workforce. Heres some information about the research supporting the link between sports and leadership, along with some first-hand testimonials.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010 Build A Strong Team. Youll learn as a manager how to build a strong team. Be An Effective Team Member. Its somewhat difficult to find a copy of Price Pritchetts 1992 handbook called, The Team Member Handbook For Teamwork, but if you do locate a copy, it provides you good, practical, useful information.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

While there are many differences in nonprofit versus for-profit design, there are a lot of UX techniques we can borrow from one another. It’s a good thing that nonprofits have hopped on this bandwagon; understanding users is very important for a nonprofit since they’re looking to build long-term relationships with these folks.

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