Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

What do you say to those who think it sounds more like a recipe for perpetual discontent? I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations. These conversations have led to many amazing stories of accelerated growth that I cover in the book.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But what happens when a constructive conversation becomes a futile one? Scrum and large group discussions can be useful during the customer discovery phase of the business, but decisions should be based on what’s driving customers as opposed to the subjective. Sound familiar? To an extent, all of this is true.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

6: Social Media Can and Should be Measured: This principle is about incorporating the discipline of measurement into your approach and to go beyond just measuring “coverage&# but also measure conversation and communities. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 1, 2022

You’ve done the hard work of making sure you’re asking for only the information you need to make a sound decision, but that can still be a lot to review. Ensuring that your foundation makes impactful grants to the right nonprofit partners starts with a thorough proposal evaluation. Program Timeline.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Read the post and join the conversation on the Frogloop blog (or read the post below). It may sound harsh and negative, but it wasn’t. I’m honored to have a guest post up on Care2′s Frogloop blog today! It was keeping things in perspective that I can always get better. That all of us can always get better.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2024

On average, this is what happens in cultivation: 725 days is the length of time an assigned prospect remains in the cultivation phase (that’s two years) 30% of officer assignments will be in the cultivation phase at any given time Often, this bottleneck is a result of a lack of direction.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Indeed, while many firms say they’re still in the information-gathering phase of what could become a sweeping new trend, others are diving in headfirst. But as the conversations evolved, and we began to understand the amount of customization and flexibility [a SPAC can offer], it felt very familiar. AJ: Well, one step at a time.

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Socialbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Google Trends: getting a handle on topical conversations. While content creation may sound challenging with a limited staff and resources, it can pay off in a big way if you use the right tools. This tool will make the brainstorming phase more guided and results-oriented. Post by Daniela McVicker.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

The Office of Marketing & Communications began the task of dealing with the uncertainty of the library’s future with one strategy in mind – creating communication messages asking the public to “learn the facts” and “join the conversation”. After we completed the listening phase, we began the process of relationship building.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2022

With that in mind, we’d like to kick off 2022 by actively questioning the use of certain words—and what is meant—so that we can continue to improve by phasing out terms that might be overused, harmful, or inaccurate. As they may sound, possessive determiners are words that serve to express a relationship of possession.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2023

The tune up needs to feature private conversations with your leading donors on what they believe provides the greatest satisfaction from their gifts. Keep in mind sound fundraising principles and best practices, but take full advantage to adjust strategies as circumstances warrant.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

According to a survey by marketing startup Uberall, there was a more than 11% increase in customer engagement with local businesses in 2020 versus 2019 and more than 35% increase in conversions via websites and phone calls during the same time frame. One of the ways Soci helps to wrangle these pages and channels is through AI, Khoury claims.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. It sounds cooler anyway. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What do you say to those who think it sounds more like a recipe for ‘perpetual discontent’? I believe in consulting pragmatic optimists during the launch phase of an idea and saving the skeptics for more sturdy iterations. These conversations have led to many amazing stories of accelerated growth that I cover in the book.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

You’ll probably want to have at least two phases to your own campaign. A “silent phase” will emphasize private fundraising conversations with your major donors and corporate sponsors. The later public phase will focus on raising money from smaller individual donors. Completing a feasibility study helps iron out your plan.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In the early days and the ideas phase, founders lean a little bit heavier into what’s happening in the world in macro and in your industry that really makes this problem,” said Treyger. Thacker said entrepreneurs should be open to raising as much as possible during the concept phase to make sure they have freedom to tinker and iterate.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The next five months can be your learning phase. For example, it can determine things like donation probability, which calculates the likelihood that a user who was active in the last 28 days will log a donation conversion event within the next seven days. It may sound cliché, but the first step is really to embrace the change.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Creating an ideal pilot engages customers in the crucial introductory phase that makes success and future partnership possible. It builds confidence and rapport with decision-makers, and it delivers financial proof-of-concept. Each roundtable occurs twice during the event.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While in the testing phase, we had very high interest and attention from investors. Audio clips on Beam are hard-capped at 90 seconds but recordings can be shorter (although as threads build they work against that by stringing sound snippets together). Overall, Beams feels like it’s still very much in the experimental phase.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

By Kathleen Kurre, CEO, TechBridge "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." --Lewis Carroll - English Logician, Mathematician, Photographer and Writer, Alice in Wonderland The nonprofit sector is buzzing with data and outcomes conversations. This might sound like a "no-brainer".

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The Verge

JUNE 6, 2021

So it would be fortunate if Apple has a new MacBook Pro waiting for them, one that could swing the conversation at WWDC away from difficult questions about whether the App Store is fair. We called it one of the worst buttons ever made , and breathed a sigh of relief when 2019’s MacBook Pro phased it out for good.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Sounds horrible, right? But it doesn’t have to be. So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams.

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Achieve

APRIL 4, 2017

to actively join in doing good for an issue), other uses of the word sound much more negative. From the qualitative methods phase of our research, we learned that millennials have adopted a view of activism that aligns with those negative descriptors, and to put it bluntly, they want nothing to do with it. What’s in a name?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Hootsuite allows for a set-it-and-forget-it approach that frees up more time during your fundraising campaign for more face-to-face conversations with supporters and less time watching your computer screen. Outbid notifications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

However, the idea of editing a long file in Camtasia does not sound appealing to me.). Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. I asked them to be quiet for a minute (this left a marker in the file - no sound and quicker for me to find during editing).

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Bloomerang

MAY 14, 2021

And in the early phases of the pandemic last year, I was first indefinitely furloughed and a few weeks later my position was completely eliminated from my employer. It’s yes and no because I was let go in phases. And so I got to have that conversation with her just because we already had an appointment on the books and.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2014

It may sounds easy – but the creation of a simple and usable user experience is one of the hardest things to do. Not your mission statement, but rather an elevator pitch – more conversational – something relatable. A Simple Framework. The What > The How > The Results > The Ask. Begin by simplifying what your nonprofit does.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

MANY founders have started a nonprofit and successfully navigated their way through the startup phase, growing their organization successfully. You can make notes about your conversations and what people express interest in. Don’t Take on More Than You Can Handle This sounds so easy, doesn’t it? But take heart! And you can, too!

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

Our conversations are quite consultative about the software; we can work with and learn about these organizations in order to match our software to what they need. Margaret: The conversations we have are so much more genuine, unique, and open. Lauren: Sounds like there’s a path for everyone here.

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The Verge

JANUARY 28, 2022

The other day I read a long post where investors talked about “ what to watch in crypto in 2022 ,” and it sounds exactly like what we were supposed to watch in 2021: music NFTs! The infrastructure phase.”. I read through the funding announcements; I talk to the product people; I follow the Twitter timeline. DAOs trying things!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. Wisk said the funds are also going to be used for what it describes as an “intensive growth phase” over the next year. You also can send a direct message to me at Twitter — @kirstenkorosec.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But that would be like confusing the image in your bathroom mirror with another person and thinking that youre having a conversation when actually youre just talking to yourself. You want their voices in the conversation from the beginning, understanding where human oversight and accountability are in any process. Do not wait for that.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

During this phase: Check audio to make sure speakers sound loud and clear. Hashtags serve as a great way to encourage continued conversation online. Attendees can use a hashtag to share the event with their network, interact with others who are attending, and generally be a part of the conversation.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Longer conversations, a lot more conversations. Now we’re going to say inside of Tinder, or do you expect there to still be some conversion to something else? You go out with them a week or two later, you get there, and four minutes into the conversation you’re like, “Wait, there’s no spark, there’s no chemistry.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Why you should attend: You’ll walk away from this workshop knowing exactly what you need to do to launch your individual giving into its next phase…and you’ll discover pre-made tools that will allow you to focus more on outcomes and less on how to get it all done. Kelly McLaughlin will share it all with you.

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