Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 30, 2017

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth page. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Stieglitz wrote the book because they believe that a leader's most powerful skill is the ability to hold effective conversations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2014

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Stieglitz wrote the book because they believe that a leader''s most powerful skill is the ability to hold effective conversations.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2016

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth page. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Stieglitz wrote the book because they believe that a leader's most powerful skill is the ability to hold effective conversations.

Conversation 40

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 19, 2015

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Stieglitz wrote the book because they believe that a leader''s most powerful skill is the ability to hold effective conversations.

Conversation 40

Conversation Leadership Influence Skills 40

sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

This includes considering factors such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and other intersecting identities that can influence access to resources and opportunities. Center the Voices of Impacted Communities: Listen to and prioritize the perspectives of those most affected by systemic inequities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 12, 2013

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pags. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Stieglitz wrote the book because they believe that a leader''s most powerful skill is the ability to hold effective conversations.

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Conversation Leadership Review Influence 40

Media Cause

OCTOBER 7, 2021

This is a critical time for participating in relevant social media conversations and using trending hashtags in your posts. Tag the campaign target—and influencers, journalists, and partner orgs. A critical piece of advocacy is reaching the target you are trying to influence. Center your campaign around timely events.

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Media Cause

APRIL 2, 2021

This builds trust and a sense of belonging among a network of people with shared interests, all while deepening an authentic relationship between brand and supporter. Maintain your brand voice. Your community engagement should be aligned with your brands overall voice and messaging. Be authentic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

They have historically been left out of the conversation, but want to give their time and resources to make the biggest social impact possible. Luckily, there are several ways nonprofits can go about engaging young people, strengthening relationships between them and an organization, and eventually send them through the donor pipeline.

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NetWits

MARCH 26, 2013

Thus embassies are often the right places to do your relationship-building and –maintaining. For many of your relationships, this might be the only place you make contact regularly. Perhaps there’s a part of the conversation you aren’t currently influencing, but should be. These too are a part of your neighborhood.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Learn why social listening is important and how to find and use the influencers among prospective and existing students, alumni, and parents. Tapping into social listening enables you to leverage your best social influencers to strengthen your online campaigns and ultimately build a stronger prospective student pipeline.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Halfway into the 300-page book, Leadership Conversations , I had turned the corners of nearly every fifth pages. There is so much to learn from Leadership Conversations. Stieglitz wrote the book because they believe that a leader''s most powerful skill is the ability to hold effective conversations. Stieglitz'

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2019

We’re the most connected we’ve ever been – with our friends, social networks and even strangers near and far having constant influence and involvement in our daily lives through messaging, social media, in app social tools, online communities and more. It’s about creating a conversation and inviting employees and consumers to join.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Still, understanding your audience is the foundation of all other design strategies and directly influences the success or failure of a website. For those who want to skip the “conversation,” the menu is also available in the top right corner.). In practice: 1) Civil Voices. 3) Bushfire Help.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We asked some of our favorite nonprofit tech friends to share ideas for how organizations can use social media to build meaningful relationships with their supporters—donors, influencers and activists—and what that looks like on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Influencers are busy. Do your research first. Make it easy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 13, 2023

A Life-Changing Relationship I made a point to find mentors — other Black reporters and anchors I still call on for advice today. One way to break down barriers and strengthen relationships along the racial divide is to have candid conversations and spend time learning to understand and celebrate our differences.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. These are the tangible points of contact with your audience that show that your content is engaging and stimulating conversation with others on the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

The four types described in the book in more detail include: Participation — This may be an individual (often called a social media or community manager) or in more sophisticated organizations, a team of people that are basically out and about on the interwebs, having conversations with their communities of interest. Shareability.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 21, 2021

With that knowledge we can reconstruct the entire brand relationship. Everyone in your organization has a relationship with donors, whether they realize it or not. Are the people donors want to connect with within your sphere of influence as the fundraiser? Who do you need to build relationships with? Brian Solis .

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Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2022

Several different studies provide insight into why how you present giving price options can influence donors to give more (or less) generously. increase in donor conversion and generated a higher average gift than the ask strings control. Donor Stewardship: Expert Tips to Build Strong Relationships. Don’t start too small.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The facilitator can call on people individually or, when multiple voices chime in simultaneously, create a structured queue, saying for example, “Let’s hear from Amy, then Cynthia, and then Brad.” This moves the conversation away from what you think and encourages the group to explore potential outcomes collectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

The first and most important step is for organizations to put on their listening ears and monitor conversations, get feedback, and continuously improve. Social media listening (or social media monitoring) is the practice of paying close attention to digital channels when conversations relevant to your cause are being discussed.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

Their influence comes from the positions they hold and the fact that they are not paid to raise money. It was an opportunity for our hospital and foundation president and CEOs to provide information, answer questions from our attendees and for the first time in several weeks – lend a voice of hope. The basics.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2010

Melissa spoke on the Community Clinic Voice , a network of safety-net healthcare clinic managers based primarily in California. The Community Clinic Voice was originally a grantee community and evolved to become a more independent entity with its own brand. Tags: Influence Collaboration Online Community.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. To do this, your organization will need to increase fundraising revenue by $10,000 by finding new outreach opportunities and strengthening relationships with existing supporters to increase donor retention.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2013

Thus embassies are often the right places to do your relationship-building and maintaining. For many of your relationships, this might be the only place you make contact regularly. Perhaps there’s a part of the conversation you aren't currently influencing, but should be.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

They should leverage not just their money, but also their relationships and influence to further the work of the foundation and its grantees. In conversations with many foundation colleagues, she learned that they shared the outrage. But foundation board members should be a key means of connection with the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Regardless of the tool we’re using, the team at MomsRising is committed to deepening and broadening the conversation around public policy issues that impact families in our country. To increase positive messaging about health reform from diverse voices. To build capacity for social media in policy partners.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Do you have a CRM that makes tracking relationships and supporter interactions possible? In this piece, 7 Tips for Building Nonprofit Supporter Profiles , Tech Impact outlines how to appropriately manage constituent relationships. John Haydon draws upon Jonah Berger’s STEPPS to share the 6 Human Factors that Influence Virality.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

Why cover an event where an elected official and constituents have a calm conversation on public policy?) And, indeed, many citizens come to these events not to have a conversation, but to vent. It was at the VFW Hall in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and other venues like it, that I truly learned how to influence legislators.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You can check the latest engagement details for individual supporters and use that information to build better relationships with them. They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Communication with major donors frequently consists of phone calls and travel for face-to-face conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

to Boston for two days of book events hosted by Associated Grant Makers , Barr Foundation , Public Conversations Project , TechFoundation and Berkman Center Luncheon series. You can only really do this with a technically comfortable crowd, and the folks at the Public Conversations Project and TechFoundation hosted event fit the bill.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2016

It was a question about our commitment to our partners, to local sites of cultural importance, and to the Latino families with whom we have been working intensely to build stronger relationships. I didn't know how likely the petition was to have influence, but I knew that signing on was important to the people asking.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

He’s spent the last three years specializing in WordPress and conversion optimization, and is an active proponent of coding guidelines. Showcase your unique brand voice. De’Yonté’s a late-80s baby who found his passion for web design and development during MySpace’s heyday, when he helped his friends create awesome profiles.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

I'm not usually that interested in museum politics, but this soap opera is too big to ignore, especially as the conversation has shifted over the last few weeks to something I care a lot about: populism. Why do these critics care so much about the influence of money and so little about the influence of audiences?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

same expectations around subscriber renewals, same expectations around membership retention, same expectations of conversion of ticket buyers to donors, same, same, same. Capitalize On Relationships and Deepen Them. Define how can each staff member influence or impact the results. Maintain Loyalty. The first gift is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

However, if the tools are in the hands of the resident/customers, that changes power relationships. The second was "we can't let them do that" - which meant that within the culture of the organisation it would not be conceivable to help customers develop their own voice, except within quite tightly controlled circumstances.

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