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Virgin America As Connector

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Since March, I've been commuting between Boston and San Francisco. Tags: fundraising2.0 Miro Logo. One of the best things about the commute is Virgin America airlines in flight experience. The food is decent, the is leg room in economy, it's clean, and there is wifi.

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Happy Blog Day!

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Chris Brogan - He's the co-founder of Boston Podcamp and I have no idea why it took me so long to discover his blog and his writing at lifehack. This blog is was Juanita Brown's first foray into blogging and I feel proud to have been one of her mentors! Technorati Tags: blogday2006 A Fine Blog - Allison Fine's blog. Go sign up!

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Reflections on the Social Media Lab Workshop

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So, I demonstrated how to tag a person in a wall post and posted the question: Manny Hernadez : Should an organization that serves both Spanish-speaking and English-speaking audience (and some only speak one language) have two different Fan Pages in the native language? Tags: scholar technology training training materials.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

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Each fellow is guided by a personal volunteer, mentor, and a coach, who are professionals in different fields. PT currently has fellowships in Boston, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem -- and will be expanding next year to Europe and other cities in North America. . It was not used efficiently at the beginning.

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Some Thoughts on Livestreamed Interviews, Engagement, Book Winners, and Finger Puppets

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I remember my colleague, Jonny Goldstein , launched his show in the fall of 2007 and gave a terrific talk about live streaming technology and web talk shows at Podcamp Boston in 2007. Does reverse mentoring actually work? Tags: america giving challenge backchannel crowdsourcing engagement. Chris Pirillo comes to mind.

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Revenge of the Female Nerds: Myth Busting

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She went on to explain that the principle way people get ahead in sciences is through mentoring. If men dominate, your mentors will be. There is anxiety about an older man mentoring a younger woman. The concern is that he is just mentoring her because she is judged a "cutie." " That struggle doesn???t

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

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The CyberYenta, Deborah Finn , recently had a successful pledge as follows: "I will smile and say "hello" to strangers I pass on the streets in my neighborhood but only if 50 residents of Boston, Massachusetts, USA will too." " Amazingly 350 people signed up and this lead to the Mentoring Worldwide project.