Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

IT systems are evolving from static processing engines to agents of change. The Live Enterprise model is different because it allows good agile principles to be practiced at scale in a large company, not sacrificing the structure and scale needed to be successful while still being flexible and adaptable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. Photo by Idea Constructor.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Originally posted by Zero Strategist on the 4Change blog. Though many orgs flaunt their “lessons learned” they are not all written down, distributed, or accessible depending on the enterprise architecture. I think that the previous blog post by Tom is a great lead into this month’s discussion and #4CHANGE chat topic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Guest blog by Paddy Sullivan Hola! I felt first hand the technological, structural, and emotional challenges of delivering an engaging six hour lesson to groups of 30-40 people. My name is Paddy Sullivan. I work in membership at Bookshare and I believe in bilingualism. This photo was taken in a library in San Juan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

During the conference, “a small army of guest bloggers [and] grantmakers, who [attended GEO] posted their reflections on the session and LIP in general on my blog. Have you evaluated your work with intermediaries, and if so, what lessons have you learned? The learning in public (slides and resources here ). What made it great?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Faithful readers of this blog may know that Beth Kanter is Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program, but we’ll bet that far fewer of you know what the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program actually is, or what we fund. Guest Post by the Packard Foundation OE Team.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 17, 2016

This is important because it allows insights into the daily work lives of like individuals, their processes, and lessons learned on the job that can positively impact the learning community as a whole. Social Learning can best be defined as working with others to understand ideas, concepts, and procedures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Both ended their experiments with insights about how to set up systems and structures for content creation across channels, linking, and engaging. They will use the lessons learned to share with the education program to set up its Facebook presence as the next experiment.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

This event combines the lessons learned from previous fundraising activities on Twitter: A local, face-to-face component based on the popular "Tweet Ups" or " Net2Tuesday " meetups. Focus 24 hour event with broadcasts and all local partners participating to raise awareness (a sort of Blog Action Day on steroids).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems. A lot of these partnerships push against our internal ways of working, and while that's a healthy tension, we need to be sensitive to the stress on our organizational systems and each other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Audience size, breadth, and depth: If your organization has big lists, lots of traffic to your website or blog or social media pages, or big crowds at events, there are many ways to turn this into a donor benefit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

They can facilitate that change or create the structures to help that along. There are people who will work as hard as they possibly can, but because of structures, and because of systems that I had access to that they often do not, it just seemed to shake my vision of what's right in the world. You started very young.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Most of us in the industry have been through a system implementation or two — or twenty — by now. MD: Not only were we introducing a new system to replace their legacy application, they were standardizing their business processes across the three pilot offices on the other side of the world. That’s not to say there weren’t any hiccups.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2021

It’s impossible to showcase all our talent in one post, so we’re starting a blog series to introduce major work areas and show what happens behind the scenes. Tutorials can be instructive, but lessons may not “stick” if you don’t use them in a real-world scenario. First up is our talented Tech team! I’m Doug Stumberger, Interim CTO.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In this article, we will explore how to manage these challenges from a technology standpoint, including publishing metrics, establishing structure, removing barriers and offering training. This is not a complete list; you will need to adapt to your culture and organizational structure. Establish structure and accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Tre, who writes a blog called Thought by thought has several detailed posts analyzing the campaign here and here. Does the future of online fundraising lie in mobile social networks that have an easy built-in payment system for in-the-moment charitable giving of very small amounts by thousands and thousands of people?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 12, 2010

The community supports us by ordering our food (we have an online ordering system), but also, our original capital came from small loans from members of our community. We offer a weekly lesson where we explore the culinary principles that our business is based on. A huge part of this is computer based: it's a web-based ordering system.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

She’s on, you know, all the leading blogs. 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 implementing your plan along the way means capturing lessons and data as you go. So buy those books. And she’s been all over. So this is awesome.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so one of the things that has been such a big lesson, and an aha, and also a gift is when I started putting people first and then getting to the goal once I understood how to get my folks motivated, activated, interested, and owning the work that they did, like the sky opened up. Flat structures have hidden hierarchy. Absolutely.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

” This blog shares some thoughts about this project and I have to give it a big round of applause. Storytelling and Knowledge Transfer :: sharing innovations, lessons learned, fail stories, and emerging best practices. Systems Change :: advising global organisation, campaign teams, and NROs on new ways of working.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

I’ve finally started work on my Now-to-New book (the book is itself a N2N project and you can see it unfold on my blog) and these words are very encouraging. Maybe a section on this blog, or a wiki, pulling the idea together[?] That’s otherwise known as a reliable banking system. Special thanks for the E.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

8 Uber’s and Lyft’s rideshare systems require drivers to log on to the systems through facial verification software, but the current verification software used by these companies is well-known for its difficulties in accurately identifying the faces of people of color. 9</sup). 9</sup).

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, it is likely that some nonprofits could begin, out of an abundance of caution, to move toward a discussion of life experiences that is akin to the Court opinion’s “ challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned ” as they intersect with race. 2] For more on how to move DEI beyond performativity, check out this blog !

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