Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2023

As the creator of the iconic “Corner Office” column in the New York Times , Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership. He adds that the book is useful to everyone who is interested in leadership, regardless of where they are in their career.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. We, in the social good sector, especially need to keep honing our skills in unleashing new power for good causes.

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EveryAction

APRIL 5, 2023

They can help drive a culture of adoption , which allows leadership to focus on change management activities to ensure you succeed with significant tech shifts. While the C-level and managers will probably lead your organization’s tech selection, you can think of the board as the ultimate executive sponsor.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 27, 2014

Create leadership opportunities. Focus on interests & skills. Your organization might not always know why someone chose to volunteer for your nonprofit, but you can help them to achieve the outcome they want by identifying each volunteers’ skills and interests. Help your volunteers create memories by organizing teams.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 14, 2022

Be sure to check out the books’ Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2021

They have multiple social media profiles and check their phones frequently. Note: we’re not advocating that you use it as your primary channel for reaching millennials, but rather as a way to establish and maintain a public profile to define who you are and what your work is about. This is the generation that invented Facebook.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 18, 2022

Sometimes we get one tool – one skill, one talent – and out of habit, we stick with it, never thinking about other tools we might need. It takes an entrepreneurial heart to start a nonprofit, fundraising and marketing skills to grow it, and leadership skills to manage it. And you need to use the right tools.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 23, 2022

Be sure to check out the book's Appendix 2 where you’ll find the bios of these 67 interviewed CEOs along with key facts about each – including their milestone leadership impacts on their respective organizations. Viewed through this lens, we hope any leader will find it helpful. Take the mindset of “be bold”, for example.

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Lesson Singapore Leadership Roles 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2024

Board Service : I continue to serve on the advisory boards of Leadership Learning Community and Wake. The past few years I have not published as much as I have in the early years but I continue to curate content and share ideas via my LinkedIn profile and occasionally LinkedIn Lives. Writing : I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JUNE 9, 2018

I’ve notified the leadership at TNB, so this is not a covert search. If you know about any job opportunities at organizations that need someone with my skill set, I’d love to hear about them. After five very productive years at Tech Networks of Boston (TNB), I am now looking for my next professional challenge.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. We spent most of our time looking at the importance of setting up a professional profile on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Leading on social media requires nonprofit CEOs and their staff, even Trustees, to master basic digital communications skills that allow them to engage directly with stakeholders as themselves, in their own voices. Does your nonprofit executive director use social channels as part of their leadership tool box?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Through HHF’s award-winning LOFT leadership and workforce development program, tens of thousands of students and young professionals are connected to each other and to mentors and resources. Grassroots Leadership. Grassroots Leadership organizes communities to fight back against detention and deportation both in Texas and nationally.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Partnering with a marketing agency, like Media Cause, with experts skilled at crafting strategic communications can help you identify and capitalize on key moments for messaging in an election year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region. The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Typically, there is a discussion like “We need someone who has x skill.” Then comes the screen process that sometimes can take the skills of an investigative reporter. ” Then everyone goes through their mental Rolodex and that process is repeating. Board Connect changes all that.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

A nonprofit Advisory Board can be a great way to engage key supporters with relevant professional skills, life experiences, and networks. Mothers shared with the nonprofit’s leadership how stressful this rule was for them, knowing they would be kicked out after six months regardless of their circumstances.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Do a little research and see if your peer executive directors are using social media or mobile as a leadership tool. Check in with Your Peers.

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Classy

MAY 26, 2021

Visit and refresh your website, LinkedIn profile , and any other personal or professional accounts that you hope to share. If you’re attending a conference looking to pitch a project, learn a specific skill , or secure a job, make sure your current projects and your intentions for the conference are clear on your online spaces. .

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 9, 2023

Skills and Expertise In order to leverage your board for fundraising , you need to identify their skills and expertise. Then match board members’ skills with specific fundraising projects or initiatives that can benefit from their expertise. You may be surprised by what you find!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 19, 2023

Since then, Magnuson has provided his leadership insights multiple times for my blog and in 2020, I named his book, Stand Out! , as the best new leadership and business book for that year. I started the Everyday Leadership blog 11 years ago. I guess you could say my leadership engine was all revved up.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Utilize this helpful document to build a profile for all potential funders with relevant information and contact information. Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Once you’ve determined that your organization and the funder would make a good partnership, go ahead and create a Funder Profile form for them and add them to your list of potential funders. They continue to proactively invest in leadership and advocacy, and public policy change within our children’s behavioral health systems.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Once you’ve determined that your organization and the funder would make a good partnership, go ahead and create a Funder Profile form for them and add them to your list of potential funders. They continue to proactively invest in leadership and advocacy, and public policy change within our children’s behavioral health systems.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. This leadership must come from you and your network of colleagues, partners and friends.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

Hiring and Oversight of Executive Leadership Hiring a strong executive leader is critical for the success of any nonprofit. A board should always have confidence in their executives, as ensuring the organization has effective leadership in place is an important part of this role. And that’s a task that will fall to your board.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2021

The 10 journeys are engaging, relatable and profiled through these personas: The Maker : Prototypes everything, learns by doing. The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. This leadership must come from you and your network of colleagues, partners and friends.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Leading with Intent found that if a board isn’t thoughtfully comprised as it relates to skill sets, leadership styles, and diversity of thought and background, it is less likely to excel in other areas of board performance. But unfortunately: Only 1 in 5 chief executives strongly agree that they have the right board members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. But having a core isn’t enough, with online social networks there is the power of weak ties. … Read More Professional Networking'

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

High-profile frontline organizations are overwhelmed but staffed (e.g. Skills-based volunteering or Pro Bono support – We are seeing companies sharing the unique skills of employees in two ways: filling specific request for help from non-profit organizations or making skills-based help known to non-profits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

And, avoid relying on the usual suspects, the same few superstars, to handle high-profile projects. The usefulness of creativity and innovation at the workplace is linked to increasing employees' knowledge and skills. There's value to experiencing joy at work. Joy is about playing. Doing good is good for business.

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