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Eulogy for my father

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dad and his friend Lee Canfield were infamous in Chicago’s Burnham Harbor for blasting out German military marches as they sailed Lee’s boat, Go Bananas, out of the harbor into Lake Michigan. When my brother Bill was leaving to join the Army, our father took him aside and asked him to write down a quotation. Cardinal Newman. That was my dad!

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AI, Analytics, and Your Nonprofit’s Technology Strategy

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But generative AI tools like chatGPT have different use cases from the predictive intelligence we’re exploring here as a component of your nonprofit’s technology strategy. But generative AI tools like chatGPT have different use cases from the predictive intelligence we’re exploring here as a component of your nonprofit’s technology strategy.

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Nathan Magnuson's New Book Teaches, Inspires And Builds Your Confidence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

My second goal is to show the difference between knowing and influencing. On its own, leadership expertise won't actually make much of a difference unless people trust you. Question : What critical leadership lesson did you learn from observation during your military service?

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What leadership practices help nonprofits achieve desired results?

ASU Lodestar Center

Along the way, I served different organizations and worked hard for the success of the mission. For the last 15 years, I have served in the nonprofit sector, and like in my military service, I started at the bottom. That was not the finish line but the beginning of service that continues today.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

It traverses the slum’s territory, listlessly gliding above the shanties, perhaps to transmit images to the Military Police Operations Centre, a violent state apparatus that mercilessly represses the slum’s inhabitants. 1 The worker remains unaware of what is taking place above them, just as they remain unaware of the purpose of their work.

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Must Hear Speech from Barack Obama and the Power of Podcasting

Have Fun - Do Good

I love listening to Barack Obama's podcasts because he gives me hope that there is at least one person in the US government who is reasonable, sane, intelligent and truly cares about people as humans, not just as voters who can keep him in or out of office. I've posted the transcript of the speech below and here is the link to listen to it online.

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