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Embracing Intrapreneurship: A Nonprofit Game Changer

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Celebrated intrapreneurs include the 3M scientist who wanted to create a bookmark that wouldn’t move and ended up inventing Post-it Notes , the Google engineer who came up with the idea for Gmail, and the Sony employee dissatisfied with his daughter’s Nintendo who developed the PlayStation.

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Updated: Opinion Page Yellow Pages

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Bookmark this one for all your future op-ed needs! Chicago Sun-Times. The Chicago Tribune. One of the most common questions we see on nonprofit listservs is: “Who’s the current op-ed editor at such-and-such-outlet?” Op-Ed Contact + Submission Guidelines. LTE Contact + Submission Guidelines. Boston Herald.

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Great reads from around the web on November 11th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The YMCA of Metro Chicago faced just this challenge in the summer of 2010. Women Rule the Philanthropic Roost!

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Great reads from around the web on July 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

"Eric Overman (photo, center), Operation Smile, received the Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Award, and Anne Bergquist (photo, left), YMCA of Metro Chicago, and David J. Tags: roundup bookmarks. Nonprofit Marketer of the Year Awards - CONGRATS! "Eric Check it out!

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Great reads from around the web on April 17th

Amy Sample Ward

Sharing by the numbers in the USA - Check out this report and the accompanying data figures from USA Today - some spotlights include: 14 million Americans are employed by or volunteer full time in the nonprofit sector; and the Chicago Meals on Wheels program is cutting its budget by 35%. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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You Know You Want Our Tchotchkes

Connection Cafe

Before we jump into the laundry list, Convio's Facebook page is your one-stop shop for upcoming Convio events - bookmark it for future reference! This conference has over 4,000 professional fundraisers registered in 2011 and is in Chicago this year. some of us from Convio in the coming months (including yours truly!).

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was in Chicago, Ryanne Hodson , who I met at last year's BlogHer, is in Cambodia and Southeast Asia with Jay Dedman to document the work of Project Hope International. The bookmarks are here. I'm going to the Cambodian Blogger Summit in a few weeks. The back story is here ). This lead me to a little experiment with Blip.TV

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