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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

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Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. In my workshop in Detroit, I had several people with physical disabilities. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act, a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. … Read More.

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A Low Tech Version of Providing the Self-Organizing Platform for Movement Building

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We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap. Last week I was in Michigan to do a training for Chapter Leaders of EPIP.

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Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset

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” This could have created a public relations nightmare (It’s happened in the orchestra world when the Detroit Symphony musicians went on strike and used social media to air their concerns. Instead, these Goodwill employees went to their CEO.

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Foundations That Tweet: Profile Patterns

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Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). I threw the urls into a google spreadsheet and started to browse the Twitter streams to get a better understanding of the content shared. (It It wasn't useless babble !). In an earlier post , I found the following types of patterns related to content shared on Twitter. .

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An Interview with Jeska Linden about Nonprofits in Second Life

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I grew up just outside of Detroit Michigan, daughter of a police officer and nurse. I went to the University of Detroit-Mercy where I got a dual BA in English and Communications. We were hired by a startup outside of Detroit, a build-your-own computer company, sort of like Gateway. How did you end up working in a virtual world?

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). A few days ago, I came across an interesting article about how to Tweet your corporate culture - and it struck me that the points might lead to a content strategy for tweeting thought leadership. I also came across a list of 90 Foundations That Tweet and took at look at their Tweet streams.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

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For example, Friendship Circle, had a rallied at a Piston's Game in Detroit (see above video) and organized 3,000 teens to play freeze tag on Facebook to rally the vote. Organizing Offline and Online. There is also the importance of offline/online connection that can't be ignored.

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