Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2016

In order to survive over the long term and gain competitive advantage, companies must learn how to connect profoundly with the world around them -- not only with customers and stakeholders, but also with employees, local communities, politicians, and the environment itself." The life expectancy of a leading U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

To figure out how you can make an impact, try this exercise based on a similar one from Carol Lloyd's book Creating a Life Worth Living : 1. On a second piece of paper, write (without editing) a long list, or create a mind map, of all the skills (personal and professional) you like to use (i.e. serving jury duty (willingly), 3.

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AccelEvents

JULY 13, 2020

A hybrid event allows you to gather a smaller number of attendees in a venue, respecting social distancing practices and any locally mandated crowd size limitations, while still reaching a larger audience at home. With Whova, you can provide the added bonus of a digital environment for your in-person event. .

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Your organization has goals, too.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Work-life balance. Local businesses became national. Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. But for many of us, working from home saves a life changing amount of time and money, from packing meals – or eating out – to two hours spent on the freeway every day.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2016

There are a zillion apps for making your own tours, podcasts, maps, or QR code-infested games. Thinking about these two characteristics, here are some highly speculative ideas and questions: What is the most effective way to have lots of physical presence in the built environment? but none of them are great. Make beautiful bike racks?

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

Work-life balance The age-old battle between how much you should be working and how much you should be living. Local businesses became national. Fast forward to the last ten years, and our whole environment has changed, as well as our outlook. Do you have a culture club that organizes team-building activities and social events?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 from replacing ads with art to alerts when you visit the websites of companies that threaten the environment.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Experience: Google emphasizes the importance of firsthand experience in content creation, encouraging businesses to showcase real-life encounters with their subjects. To secure a prominent position in local search results, fine-tune your website for local keywords and actively manage a well-optimized Google Business listing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" The farmer-turned-activist is ready to sell struggling teenagers on something they may want in their hearts but don’t know how to access: a ticket to a meaningful life. Doron believes in them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

She quit me and now she is a lifeguard living her best possible life this summer, working at a community pool and having the best time of her life. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s. I’m just resetting my life. So Sinai is a lifeguard this summer.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

They're aware that poverty around the world is not diminishing, they're aware that environment degradation is a looming problem. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? Climate change is on people's minds.

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NTEN

JANUARY 13, 2011

In the aftermath of that quake, as well as flooding in Pakistan, fires in Israel, flooding in South and Central America, and countless other incidents, technology played a critical and often-life-saving role, and remains at the center of the ongoing advocacy and long-term rebuilding work in Haiti.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Works are chosen and hung throughout the city using a unique venue matching system whereby local businesses, galleries, and organizations select the artworks they want to host. It was the best example I've seen of a physical environment operating like the kind of successful social platforms Engestrom described in 2005.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2007

Hawken talks about the hundreds of thousands of individuals and organizations working to heal the world's problems as the earth's immune system: "Antibodies bind not just to pathogens but to many types of cells, even themselves, as if the lymphatic system were a chamber of commerce mixer of locals feverishly exchanging business cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

It's an environment that attracts some of the most connected people in a wide variety of industries, creating a unique opportunity for ideas to take root in wider audiences. It's very similar to life - we tend to admire those people who do good in humble ways. To help fuel this state-vs.-state Louis sales manager for Kimball Office).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

the kind of story I’m talking about here is like, you know, Bob’s life was transformed and here’s, you know, his specific story, his timeline, this is what happened, there’s a character, there’s, you know, a rise, and fall, and a climax. A life-changing story that they get to be a part of. So reframe it.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So do you see in this map, WhatsApp is a top social messaging app in the world. I had to blur it out because it’s a real life example of my situation. So in this part, what I said before, sharing the local voices of the communities you work with is extremely important because WhatsApp is a way. So this is massive.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

You’re going to see a big map of the U.S. Big map of the U.S. And I know some of my clients are very local. They do very local work, and it’s only the small local foundations that are interested, at least initially, in funding them. And in fact, there’s a really cool website. This is just for U.S.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It’s also worth noting, as I think Crystal mentioned in the chat, that yes, many local organizations in your community often have their own memberships to Foundation Directory Online that they can provide you either for free or as a member benefit. Or there may be local organizations that have their own databases. .

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Internet and the Web are changing every institution and impacting every aspect of life. Because the Web shifts the balance of power in our global society and local communities, even those who never go online live in a constantly changing world. You can send an Op-Ed to a local newspaper about local digital divides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Child's Play Charity targets gamers as a donor community, by Penny Arcade , raising millions mostly to provide games and equipment to child life programs at leading hospitals around the world. You can also see if there is a local charity that you bring items to in your own world travels. Zonbu has announced a laptop version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. Mobile technologies will extend the global online network to anyone with a mobile device while enabling countless local networks to form in the real world. He is the founder of MomentFeed , a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. It's best to pick a topic that's sort of a niche topic, or.

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