Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In this new book, the authors offer practical strategies and techniques to become an authentic leader and reveal how you can navigate your own path to success. These stories reflect more than 222 interviews with leaders–172 leaders interviewed for the original True North book, and more recently 55 interviews for the new book.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Digital content, including blog posts, videos, interviews, and constituent stories, will help to: Engage supporters and keep your organization on their minds. Check out our digital session on demand with Cornershop Creative about digital advocacy tactics and techniques to help you power your programs and purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2013

The 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference takes place in Minneapolis next week. Plenary: Placing Little Bets: Failing Informatively for NPTECH Innovation: Beth Kanter, Erin Shy, Megan Kashner, Brian Reich, Allison Burns. Gaping Void Cartoons. It is the largest gathering of people who work in the nonprofit sector and technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. ” Another place to look for clues is any formal audience research that your organization done. Have you discovered engaging content that inspires your audience to an action that reaches your goals? Do you use any of these techniques? Engagement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If you wish to make a difference that may mean looking at an alternative place to affect change than the one you first envisioned. Study good grant writing techniques and apply what you learn to as many as you can. Get the right team members in place. Have several interviews before you offer the job. . Best of luck! .

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Also, I think after publishing my first two books, Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story , they thought sales was the next logical place to leverage storytelling skills. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

This gives you a great place to start as you segment your donors based on shared characteristics such as age, interests, giving preferences, and motivations. For example, let’s say you learn that your most engaged Instagram followers are aged 25-34, female and live in an urban area.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Also, I think after publishing my first two books, Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story , they thought sales was the next logical place to leverage storytelling skills. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2012

In preparation, I’m doing a pre-recorded skype interview with Robin as a back up for a live interview. Also, you need, as Jan Gordon points out in the skype video interview, to know the audience’s content consumption patterns and interests. As is my presenting style, this will be an interactive session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

One of the best ways to learn is the study, observe, or interview the experts. I like the metaphor of a sommelier, They know the grapes, the winemaker and their techniques, and vintages. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. That’s less true.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

This is where Jason Lewis steps in to provide valuable insight during his interview in episode 89 of The sgENGAGE Podcast, Developing Fundraising Talent. Focus on developing fundraisers rather than hiring and placing fundraisers. The repeated technique creates a distinctly transactional relationship of diminishing personal value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2016

There are several effective free techniques to grow your email list using the current digital assets and online properties your organization already has. A proven technique to capture email addresses either from your website visitors or your social media followers is to offer a digital download. com, consider the following.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

I interviewed Jim Murphy , Senior Online Editor, about how Human Rights Watch ’s integrated social media strategy leverages the personal brands HRW 197 employees to get results. In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 1, 2018

Also, I think after publishing my first two books, Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story , they thought sales was the next logical place to leverage storytelling skills. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. LinkedIn groups and company pages are a great place to encourage this type of engagement. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. A couple of takeaways from the interview: Leaders Lead Culture Change. It doesn’t matter where it is or who created.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

So this board was in place, but then it was a little bit aimless for some time. . Anything from a new approach, to a technique, to information, insights, you’re offering your emotional intelligence. This is how might we see these techniques activated? The leadership changed. The goals changed. Where are they helpful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. she manages all social networking profiles, online advertising, search engine optimization, and online marketing techniques for campaigns. If you don???t

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 20, 2019

In The Way of the SEAL: Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it's too late?

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BoardAssist

JULY 15, 2016

BoardAssist’s YPB took on the task of spending this money for us with creative and well-placed ads and we are now spending a much higher percentage of the money allocated to us. Maybe placing your ads so that buyers of orchestra tickets can find them would be a good idea? Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

A more informative place to look is Facebook’s white paper. According the New York Times “Facebook is already working on techniques to reduce the average amount of data used by its Android mobile app from the current 12 megabytes a day to 1 megabyte without users noticing.” Kennedy speech. about Internet.org.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2009

Technology and youth can go hand in hand… if you have the right tools, techniques, and training. Kami Griffiths from TechSoup will interview Erika Padilla-Morales from Streetside Stories and Will Hammond from BAYCAT on Thursday, May 28 at 11:00 a.m. Click here for more information , orders must be placed before June 30.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Also, I think after publishing my first two books, Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story , they thought sales was the next logical place to leverage storytelling skills. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Also, I think after publishing my first two books, Lead with a Story and Parenting with a Story , they thought sales was the next logical place to leverage storytelling skills. What took longer was actually convincing myself that writing a book teaching salespeople how to be better storytellers would make the world a better place.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

We kicked off the conference with an interview style keynote about the Networked Nonprofit, moderated by fabulous Shireen Mitchell (aka digitalsista ). The best part is when the audience joins the conversation. Showing Results: This method is for those have been applying listening techniques and want to track results.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it''s too late?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Next we did a human spectra gram , a technique that colleague Allen Gunn from Aspiration. The moderator then interviews people at different points on the spectrum about the opinions they hold. Though they obviously had some interest or they wouldn’t have been there in the first place.)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

I had to adapt all my social media techniques for very low bandwidth and do it in real time. Also, Twitter was really helpful in making connections to places and people to see in Cambodia once in country. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview. The speed and access to the Internet has changed dramatically.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 9, 2014

In The Way of the SEAL : Think Like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed , ex-Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine reveals exercises, meditations, and focusing techniques to train your mind for mental toughness, emotional resilience, and uncanny intuition. Able to sense danger before it''s too late?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

I also video blogged the session and caught up with a participant for a quick interview about their impressions. I learned a lot from Andy Carvin about A Role and B Role - and interviewing techniques (like get the person to repeat their name and the whole answer and asking them to look into the camera).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

They are organizing the first " Cambodian Blogger Summit (aka Cloggers Summit) " to take place 30-31 August 2007 in Cambodia. A conference workshop on blogging techniques and video blogging techniques. Identify and interview 3-5 amazing Cambodian BlogHers and post on BlogHer site.

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