Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I selected this book to be this year’s winner because it is full of specific examples of challenges and solutions from fields as diverse as nonprofits, school boards, healthcare, and the corporate world. Leadership is mobilizing others to make progress on the most important challenges. Leadership comes in moments.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 17, 2022

Today we are introducing an updated design system and creative approach, keeping the missions and focus of our constituents at heart. . These global change agents are addressing the toughest challenges humanity faces today: climate action, the future of work, mental health and wellbeing, and nutrition and water security.

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

I can most easily explain it like this: if you show me a bold ketchup red, and a strong Kermit green, I can tell you what colors those are, no problem. In the marketing world, the challenges are usually most pronounced for me with things like color-coded spreadsheets, charts or graphs using vague pastel shades. Over 13% of the U.S.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Once you’ve determined if your website needs to be reexamined, review the best nonprofit websites available once more, using their design as inspiration for your new and improved website. If your audience has questions about your organization, they should be able to reach you without a problem. Your website isn’t mobile responsive.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It can be even more challenging when you’ve hit a wall in your acquisition efforts. A poorly designed donation form that is hard to navigate, lengthy, or confusing may prompt visitors to leave quickly. On the flip side, a well-designed donation form is easy to understand. We can’t just wish mission-driven donors out of thin air.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

As designers at Media Cause—like all designers everywhere—we are constantly challenging what has been done in the past in an effort to create something new or improve on what exists. . I was hearing a bunch of new buzzwords being thrown around on AIGA’s Eye on Design blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2014

Sometimes extraordinary things can happen when we look at problems from a new point of view. Caravan Studios drew in local nonprofits with an invitation for snacks and some serious brainstorming — to hear the problems that only those people deeply involved knew about because they ran into these obstacles daily.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

If you’re new to web design and development, creating a homepage that accurately reflects your nonprofit’s mission and values can feel difficult. Who does your nonprofit serve and how are you actively working to solve the challenges they face? Create a simple design Research suggests that a website’s homepage has 50 milliseconds (0.05

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Imagine the benefit to society when we go from solving less than five percent of a social problem to most of it, while using less money! First, it was written broadly enough to encourage bold ideas that challenged the status quo in the accessibility field. However, I don’t want to understate the challenges we face.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Leadership is mobilizing others to make progress on the most important challenges. It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

Leadership is mobilizing others to make progress on the most important challenges. It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors. Our model works because it places the challenge, not the person, at the center.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Where relevant, you can also train Salesforce Einstein to recognize images and classify them, so you can quickly discover more insights about your leads and members. It’ll also give Salesforce users a way to complete tasks that were once beyond their technical, design or analytical capabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

With Bookshare , Benetech’s online library for people with print disabilities, our ebook-based approach to the accessibility challenge has already delivered on the promise of ending the famine of accessible books in the United States. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 12, 2015

Another problem with the last generation CAPTCHA feature is, in a word, annoyance. The new API (application programming interface) allows users—in most cases—to merely check a box to pass the challenge of proving they’re flesh and blood. It would seem that the traditional CAPTCHA feature, therefore, is no longer a dependable test.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Women can bring a different viewpoint and a problem-solving skillset that’s needed within the field. Challenge your colleagues and leaders. Qgiv provided an environment where I felt comfortable sharing my challenges with the leadership team, and I always felt like I had the support I needed to navigate this new phase in my life.

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Global Giving

APRIL 25, 2020

The chatter is everywhere, and it can be challenging for organizations, especially those that tend to have fewer technical resources on staff, to know how these new tools might help (or hinder) their work. What kinds of problems can machine learning solve? If not designed mindfully, AI can reinforce these problems in many ways.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Navigating a challenging economy, the rising cost of living, and staffing issues, many nonprofits are feeling the heat. Fundraisers have been through real challenges before.” A key tool in overcoming these challenges? Looking for technology custom-designed for your fundraising goals? But take heart. Email marketing.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Image courtesy of Technorati. Techies are an interesting type of person–many intrigued by the challenge of being presented with a problem or something that does not work as well as it could, and being asked to fix or solve the issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2017

If bots are designed well, they can have impact. The SFMOMA works with SMS and is designed to solve a particular challenge. The problem that the “ Send Me SFMOMA ” project is trying to solve is that The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has 34,678 items in its collection. What did you text?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2017

There are numerous reports, indices, and studies, such as Gensler’s Workplace Index , that explore the relationship between physical space design and business performance metrics. But there are challenges, too. And that means saying goodbye to cubicles and fixed seating plans.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

I want to call out this sentence: "TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet." Images: Image : mirtmirt / Shutterstock.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Also, the corporate giving you leverage acts as a form of social proof , providing testimonials as to your worth in addressing some of the community’s most pressing problems. Matching gifts enhance brand image, improving consumer loyalty. This helps you acquire new donors as well as retain and upgrade ongoing ones.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Navigating a challenging economy, the rising cost of living, and staffing issues, many nonprofits are feeling the heat. Fundraisers have been through real challenges before.” A key tool in overcoming these challenges? If you feel a little unsteady about your nonprofit’s fundraising right now, you are not alone. But take heart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Define the problem from your stakeholder’s point of view. Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. The focus of your test will be challenging this one thing, everything else needs to remain the same during your testing. Here’s the method.

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Forj

AUGUST 1, 2017

Part of my presentation pertained to branching scenarios, online simulations in which learners decide how to proceed in problem solving. Learners are engaged with the media that surrounds them, and it wouldn’t hurt instructional designers to take a few tips on how to create engaging content. Image credit: [link]. Sorry, Puss!

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 31, 2021

However, these brands go much deeper than the logos and images they share. To brand your organization and ensure that branding is maintained across your marketing platforms, you’ll need to design a comprehensive brand narrative that will last the test of time and communicate that clearly across all who are in charge of conveying it.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. This past spring, FTS was on the ground in the Western Balkans, helping organize the Community Boost_r Challenge.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs. The ReStart Challenges.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Interestingly, the hackathons varied in terms of their activities and the challenges. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Image 1: National Day of Civic Hacking, IntelFreePress.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Every day, cultural and nonprofit institutions face unique challenges while working towards a mission with a small technical staff and digital budget. After more than 13 years working with nonprofit and cultural institutions, like the Denver Botanic Gardens , our firm has seen that these problems are epidemic. Image: TechSoup.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2021

Nonprofit fundraising and development is hard work, especially amid all of the challenges that have been thrown our way over the past year. For nonprofits without dedicated web design and tech teams, website maintenance and updates are all too easy to neglect. Challenge 1: A Lack of Engagement from Users. Let’s dive in.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

created a truly engaging presentation that highlights the challenge of. provides both an awakening to the problem and inspires the viewer to. Powerful images, great use of fonts, and an. Asha seeks to solve the challenge of drug-resistant tuberculosis in. design that draws the viewer in. Waste Ventures.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Caravan Studios also does the hands-on work of developing the apps to ensure that the ideas, designs, and ultimately, the apps themselves are adoptable by those who need them most.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This last November, I had the honor of giving a plenary talk at the Eighth General Assembly of the World Blind Union ( WBU ), in which I addressed these opportunities and the challenges ahead. It’s this kind of problem that the global treaty is designed to solve. One of the biggest issues is digital rights management.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

There, she builds technology that connects local communities to resources that help them solve problems and impact issues. Caravan Studios, a division of TechSoup Global, entered its app SafeNight into the ReImagine: Opportunity Challenge. The Challenge was designed to surface ideas from non-traditional groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2015

Image Source: ntegrity. The above graphic comes from a post from ntegrity called “ The Challenge of Nonprofits Responding to Nepal ” that describes the donor attention cycle when it comes to emergency fundraising. .” My directive is to “make history” – so no problem?

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