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5 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Personal Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Brogan’s technique is select three words, but I modify it by articulating key themes. Writing and Blogging: I’ve been writing Beth’s blog since 2004 and on this updated wordpress blog since 2010. A great deal of my training work is done face-to-face. That’s a long time. So stay tuned.

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My Theory of Practice

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy.

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What software freedom means to me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Mission Statement

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now. A few days ago, Michele posted her blog’s mission statement.

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Priming Your Board for Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Too often, eager to fill a vacant seat or secure a well-known name, we fail to clearly articulate expectations of service to prospective board members, or downplay the expectations of service. A board manual can also be used as the basis for an orientation training session. Committee participation.

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Using the Power of Story to Run a Successful Peer-to-Peer Campaign

Connection Cafe

A personal story is an articulation about the values, beliefs, and events in someone’s life that have lead them to give and now fundraise. To articulate this, Ganz developed a storytelling model based on challenge, choice, and outcome. These two parts of the story are usually easy for people to articulate.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And communities that could make use of, expand, extend, and take ownership of these tools, don’t have access to them, for a wide variety of reasons that at some point I should articulate, but have little to do with money directly. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.