Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

“Workarounds are effective, versatile, and accessible methods for tackling complex problems,” shares the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds. They are a creative, flexible, imperfection-loving, problem-solving approach. A method that ignores or even challenges conventions on how, and by whom a problem is meant to be solved.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To help tell this story better, (RED) recently took a trip with one of our supporters, Roche, to Zambia to film a series of labs that are conducting life-saving tests and giving patients and doctors critical information in the fight against preventable diseases. The problem is that they just aren’t engaged around global health.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. The documentation projects of our partners in Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have yielded so far six high-quality publications or reports about violations against LGBTI individuals in their communities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June. NetSquared Zambia in Lusaka, Zambia. Join us in Naples, Florida for a Twitter-focused event , a Vancouver social media tune-up with Hootsuite , or a social media surgery in Cambridge or Birmingham. Newest Groups. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch). Lusaka, Zambia: Girls in ICT Day (Girls with Disabilities in ICT). Covina, California: Monetization of Content. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Friday, April 14, 2017.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2023

At first, this seems like nothing more than a pesky problem, but divergent data can quickly overwhelm nonprofits, decreasing your efficiency and putting you at risk of burning donor dollars. But if you’re like most nonprofits, your tech stack is understandably far from perfect. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be like that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. He ended up running for about 1,500 miles all the way to Zambia, arriving with nothing but the clothes on his back, about 90 pounds, and showing up at a refugee camp where he knew nobody. He had no idea where his family went.

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