Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Embrace personalization : With the changes in donor expectations outlined in the report, prioritize the individualized touch in your fundraising communications. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. Donor communication is woefully lacking in many nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. For instance, you may find that one team member, Theo, is especially good at face-to-face communication on the retreat. Donor-centric stewardship.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 4, 2021

Formal professional groups – These exist for many specialties such as the Association of Fundraising Professionals and the Grant Professionals Association, which have local chapters and a national office. . Pro tip: Reflect on your existing network. By deciding this in advance, you reduce the influence of unconscious bias. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting. My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” It’s important to reflect on that point regularly and go back to those roots.

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Leadership Attitude Chapter Culture 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

With an increasingly mobile and global workforce, leaders need to use mobile tools to a communicate and manage. The chapter includes some tips on how to set up personal dashboards using various tools. The chapter includes some great reflection questions: What stories can you share to advance your top goals?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Marketing & Communications. Marketing & Communications / #DigiStratNY / @IEGroup. Marketing & Communications. Now they are an integral and critical part of our organization’s operations, on par with fundraising, communications, and other core functions. Marketing & Communications. Feb 10 - 13.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 24, 2020

On Instagram, influencer marketing firm Obviously reported a 76% increase in likes on ad posts over the last two weeks. . One of the JDRF Southern Florida Chapter most watched videos from their virtual walk was bloopers! . While certain humor is absolutely inappropriate , making people smile is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

The question can be boiled down to "Should your organization's blog have a personality or reflect the institutional voice?" The thesis of the book - (based on what I could gleam from the free download chapter) is: Personality is the unique,authentic, and talkable soul of your brand that people can get passionate about.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

This will influence how many volunteers you’ll need to recruit and train. For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. This will communicate to your followers that you value volunteers and want more people to get involved in your program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Test and tweak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. Identifies influencers. Documentation creates internal value.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating. pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? organizational change is slow, you have to have patience, opinion starts to change once you find influencers within. what things need to be measured. success stories.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And she also serves on her home chapter of AFP which we always we appreciate. Huge lost opportunity by not communicating fundraising expectations when you are bringing people onto your board. It allows an organization to communicate authentically. And, dang, you’re busy and you’re a super-smart person.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

If you don't want to read the book in one sitting, follow Nathan’s suggestion to read one or two leadership topics (one topic per chapter) at a time, and then reflect on and practice the techniques he teaches. My second goal is to show the difference between knowing and influencing.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Marketing & Communications. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference. Marketing & Communications. Marketing & Communications / #affectconf / @AffectConf. Marketing & Communications. Marketing & Communications / #INBOUND16 / @INBOUND. Marketing & Communications.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

In this webinar, Sarah Durham will focus on identifying who your audiences are, how to prioritize them, and other elements key to developing a smart communications strategy. So, for those of you who don’t know Big Duck, we are a communications firm that works exclusively with nonprofits. All right, awesome. So buy those books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Our homepage reflected that theme, always displaying 10 or 12 ways to donate dollars or air miles, buy products to support wish granting, or launch fundraisers on our behalf. We typically wrote and packaged wish stories for the website, sponsor and development campaigns, corporate communications, and other channels. Content Curation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Y’all don’t know this about Steve, but he has backed every harebrained scheme I’ve ever had since day one and continues to encourage me as a professional and thereby encouraging all of the communities that I influence as professionals in our sector to just show up and be ourselves and do the darn thing and do the best work we can.

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Work Management Video Slides 92

Bloomerang

JUNE 4, 2021

And these can continue to influence us in our day-to-day work in a way that can sometimes be a little hard to spot, right? . Take a minute to reflect. From 2018 - 2020, she served as the Director of Communications for the Public Relations Society of America's local Hoosier chapter. So I want to know from you, what is.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

She’s a board member for the YNPN in Boston for the Massachusetts Chapter of Democrats for Education Reform. She’s super involved in the AFP chapter there in Massachusetts. And then as Steven mentioned, I’m really involved with my AFP chapter. Also a board member. All over the place. And that’s not true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

It is done by creating original content that takes advantage of timely events that are getting mainstream media attention and providing your organization’s view or take on the topic and sharing it with your network, including influencers such as journalists and champions. (See

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