Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What do you say to those who think it sounds more like a recipe for ‘perpetual discontent’? Higgins : I find that when people are professionally dissatisfied, it’s not because they made the wrong decision when choosing a job; it’s because they failed to ask the right questions at the outset. Do I thrive in ambiguity or structure?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Collaborate with peers : Engage with other fundraisers and organizations to share insights and best practices. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. While the terms sound similar, text-to-donate and text-to-give are distinct categories of mobile fundraising.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

If so, excellent job! Explore new fundraising opportunities: Open new doors by identifying untapped revenue streams, innovative approaches , or collaborative partnerships that can diversify your fundraising efforts. With a powerful platform like CauseVox, we’ll help you raise more and make your job easier.

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Forj

MAY 18, 2021

with some regularity, but never had a structured tool that we used team-wide. A platform typically comes loaded with features to not only improve interviews, but the candidate experience, efficiency of the process, as well as foster improved collaboration with key decision makers. Interview Collaboration. Drop a line, anytime.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually talking about one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. Ping pong tables. Bean bag chairs.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

It might sound like I’m describing a typical college student's house, but I’m actually describing one of the many workspaces in Zappos’ enormous headquarters in Las Vegas. The tour was organized by a group of library consultants from Kixal, Anneal, and Clarion Collaborative. Ping pong tables. Bean bag chairs.

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Library Las Vegas Culture Learning 62

NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 15, 2015

Katie Bouton is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the founder and president of Koya Leadership Partners , a nationally recognized executive search firm committed to collaborating with nonprofit organizations to recruit and retain exceptionally talented and diverse professionals who can make a lasting impact.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Invite ALL of the following (I know that this may sound like the tea party in Alice in Wonderland but just trust me on this one): Treasurer - Board of Directors. Any other "stakeholder" who uses or needs financial information to perform her/his job in the nonprofit. All Program Managers. Development Director.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I knew that I didn't want to replicate the droning report-fests I'd encountered in other jobs. I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. Sounds like great participation to me. but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

TSA’s "IdeaFactory" and State’s "Sounding Board"), but we are not aware of anonymous employee suggestion boxes that are also publicly accessible. Make open government practices part of employees’ incentive plans and reward structures. There are a number of examples of suggestion boxes (e.g.,

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

We've increased the diversity and depth of ways that creative collaborators help guide our work. As the MAH grew, colleagues started asking for more structure: clearer lines of reporting, more consistent processes, job descriptions that didn't change every few months. I bridle under too much structure. I like change.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Aaron: Sounds great. Aaron: Yeah, sounds good, Brian. You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

She was just on Forbes yesterday, it sounds like, and I just heard about it on LinkedIn and I’ll have to give her a call. And what she offers is structure and strategy to how to become a better fundraiser through doing some of your own self-reflection. . What are you most curious about in terms of how we might collaborate? .

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People Community Video Podcast 76

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. We have an inclination to innovate becuase we're constantly asking ourselves how we could a do better job. The research was sound, the model was pretty good, and it basically went nowhere. It just went into people's file cabinets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

Lost is one of the first shows that has been structured as a game. distributed collaboration - building worlds together. If we can take that addictive structure and mix in some education ideas - that's a powerful cocktail. Couldn't do it in a sound bite, game, or blog post. Beware of the sudden collapse experience?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Participatory projects require sustained engagement between staff and community members, and that is not baked into our traditional job descriptions, staffing plans, and project budgets.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Participatory projects require sustained engagement between staff and community members, and that is not baked into our traditional job descriptions, staffing plans, and project budgets. This sounds flip, but the reality as I've seen it is that every institution has its own criteria for what makes a project a success.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. The above points may make it sound like the virtual designers only contributed ideas.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Most importantly, you are looking for a system architecture that allows some partners to work completely privately, some collaboratively, and some fully integrated--and these options need to be concurrently deployable. User Flexible or Provider Flexible? You know that your needs will change over time.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Steven: Good job, [inaudible 00:02:42]. We’ve collaborated on some content. How do you structure your database? And then, as Steven suggested, we have collaborated on, a while back now, a manual. I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. Right, Robin? Robin: Oh, yeah. Robin: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It sounds cooler anyway. ” I don’t know if these questions sound familiar to you, but we’ll just do a little poll to see which of these questions you have about grants. Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. Really cool thing is she’s got like an 83%. Rachel: Yeah, you can say win rate.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 74

Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I love that “engagement” word, it’s in my job title after all, so this is a good one. And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. And that sounds kind of self-evident but it is often the case that sometimes tactics lead in communications.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

How do they stay in touch and maintain collaborations?" When I graduated from culinary school, I got a job. It was really on the job that I learned how to do a lot of stuff. I think the reality is, with culinary training, a lot of it is learned on the job. It's actually my job to help to run this business.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

There have been studies that have shown that there’s not this sort of 9:00 to 5:00 job right now, especially when people working virtually, your office is where you live. And make sure you have your key attachments, your resumes, bios, job descriptions, budgets, and also what your concept could be for potential funding. .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

Is this different from anything else we know about design, that Steve Jobs is, as they say, a tyrant with an extreme and extraordinary eye? Yes, an individual can bring clarity of vision to any project that might otherwise be sullied by the ups and downs of collaboration and compromise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

We also work with groups like Oxfam and their Make Trade Fair Campaign , Doctors without Borders , the ACLU , Global Exchange and this summer will be collaborating with Witness , Greenpeace , the NRDC and others. I have a few other small businesses as well, so I don’t sleep much! What do you enjoy the most about your work?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

” But if I’m working with communities that have a more hands, you know, a job that they’re like on their feet every day, they’re not going to have the email, they’re not going to be communicating through email. Some people are going to see it quickly.” So that doesn’t work. It’s more informal.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2009

Sounds fun right? One of the most important take-aways from TransparencyCamp was the momentum and collaboration generated by the enthusiasm, generosity, and innovation of the individuals and groups coalescing around the idea that citizens have the right and the responsibility to know exactly what their government is doing and why.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

Ilyse Hogue: Well I came to this work and I came to this job, very differently, maybe I could start from the beginning. So the more that we can create institutions and structures and organizations that do just that. I know that sounds kind of cheesy but it's true. Britt Bravo: How did you come to this work?

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