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MARCH 19, 2015

The campaign directors from around the world has converged in San Francisco for an annual staff retreat. After a welcome by US Director Annie Leonard , the mini-innovation lab started off with each of the 6 campaign directors offering an overview of a campaign they were thinking about and a brainstorming question.

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JANUARY 12, 2012

” Linda Wood, Senior Director of Leadership and Grantmaking, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. That’s the candid assessment of Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights , in a new video from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. We at the Haas, Jr.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Infusing Social Into Social Justice Organizations – Guest Post by Daniel Jae-Won Lee, Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation. Through this initiative, we are supporting a group of dynamic, next-generation leaders in the social justice field in the San Francisco Bay Area as they retool their organizations for greater impact.

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MARCH 30, 2012

Noah Flower works out of Monitor’s San Francisco office and has over six years of experience conducting research and analysis for clients across all three sectors, with an emphasis on using networked organizational structure to drive large-scale change. What would you advise to make it successful? Please let us know!

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JUNE 30, 2011

Yesterday, the Social Media for Nonprofit Conference series kicked off in San Francisco yesterday in War Memorial Green Room with support from Microsoft.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Today, I had the pleasure of doing a mini-workshop at the Director's Institute for the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network in Sacramento. My co-presenter was the talented Bryce Skolfield , Director of Communications and Public Policy at the Children's Council of San Francisco.

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MAY 6, 2011

Zoetica designed and is delivering the six-month program for Theatre Bay Area , with support from the Wallace Foundation, Grants for the Arts, the San Francisco Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation and the Koret Foundation. Andrew Pulkrabek, the marketing director, worked with a designer. The Techy Stuff.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Since March, I've been commuting between Boston and San Francisco. Behind me was Nicholas Reville, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Miro , a HD open source video player. Miro Logo. One of the best things about the commute is Virgin America airlines in flight experience.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

This week in San Francisco, technologists and human rights advocates are meeting at the Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference (or RightsCon )to grapple with the realities of how we better manage the human rights implications of new technologies. Sam, Program Director at WITNESS, is a human rights advocate, video producer and trainer.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

I followed the ant trails of the San Francisco Symphony Twitter stream - they are doing a particularly good job of conversational, relationship building tweets - not "BUY TICKETS NOW!" Also, it is a good illustration of how engagement might lead to butts in seats, the holy grail of performing arts centers marketing directors.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

So, when Mark Horvath , someone who fits the description of “ free agent “ in our book The Networked Nonprofit , let me know he was passing by San Francisco at the end of his road trip to promote WeAreVisible , I suggested we all have lunch. Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV.

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MARCH 29, 2012

Next week should be officially be named “Nonprofit Techie Week” in San Francisco! I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. I’m on a panel with Brian Kennedy, VP of Marketing for Children Now and Johanna Morariu, Director, Innovation Network.

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Well, here we are… Together with Lacey Huszcza , Director of Operations & Promotions at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, I am putting together an event called #askaconductor. Participants and bloggers can use these handy banners and already San Francisco Symphony’s Donato Cabrera put on up on his site.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

I followed the ant trails of the San Francisco Symphony Twitter stream - they are doing a particularly good job of conversational, relationship building tweets - not "BUY TICKETS NOW!" Also, it is a good illustration of how engagement might lead to butts in seats, the holy grail of performing arts centers marketing directors.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The plan for the next year is: Train and develop 12 leaders from the MENA region (4 Strategic Advisors, 4 Country Directors/Master Trainers and 4 Training Coordinators) = In-Country Leadership Teams. The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

The early adopters tend to come from large national organizations, those with larger budgets/capacity in regions, small agile/activist nonprofits, and probably more concentrated in metro areas where there is an active social media/tech community - San Francisco, Austin, Boston, etc. Your database is a mess 3.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2005

the blog of Barry Hessenius, executive director of Alonzo King Lines Ballet in San Francisco, and former executive director of the California Arts Council takes an interesting twist on a group blog. The press release says: Modeled on PBS???s

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

I followed the ant trails of the San Francisco Symphony Twitter stream - they are doing a particularly good job of conversational, relationship building tweets - not "BUY TICKETS NOW!" Also, it is a good illustration of how engagement might lead to butts in seats, the holy grail of performing arts centers marketing directors.

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JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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MARCH 30, 2012

Chema Gargouri, In Country Director, Tunisia being interviewed by the local radio station in Fez, Morocco. For example, I had an opportunity to co-present a session and exercise with Widad El Hanafi , Country Director for Morocco. And, indeed we had journalists present. Integrated Content Strategy – Emediat.

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DECEMBER 21, 2007

For those lucky people who live in San Francisco, the next Net Tuesday is about Twitter and Nonprofits. The speakers are Nate Ritter , talking about how he used Twitter as a help center during the San Diego fires, and Jeremy Pepper, the Director of Communications of the Point. Delving to the World of Twitter.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. .

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JUNE 25, 2012

I learned this technique from Cheryl Francisconi, director of the IIE Addis-Ababa Office in Ethiopia, last month in Rwanda ,who uses a stone that has been held by many people.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Note from Beth: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 11th. Guest Blog by Ritu Sharma, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Social Media for Nonprofits. Note from Beth: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 11th.

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OCTOBER 26, 2006

Heather Carpenter is the Assistant Director of Aspiration which connects nonprofits organizations with software solutions that help better carry out their work. One of the first things that I did was to find a new office space for Aspiration which we now call the San Francisco Technology Center. Why did you start to blog?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. Flickr Photo: Mr. T in DC.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. More on that later.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To help us learn more about how to apply Lean Start Up ideas to nonprofit causes and organizations, Meg Rulli is the Social Media Director for Lean Impact and her colleagues will be contributing a regular blog post covering different aspects of the Lean Impact practices. Patrice Martin, IDEO.org (Co-Lead & Creative Director).

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

Adventurous spirit: all the program directors have shown an incredible willingness to take risks on new ideas, compromise, and contribute time and energy to the collective good. Leslye Louie is the National Director of The Encore Fellowships Network. More to come! Lyle Hurst is the EFN’s Network Developer. … Read More

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AUGUST 12, 2009

In addition to the summary, the music director is blogging about on how the story can combine with some music and acting and singing to become a finished piece. A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Anyone can contribute. Photo by Guillermo.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

The latter is exemplified by the work of “ Lean Impact ” which is hosting a conference in San Francisco in 2014. One of the most inspiring presentations was by the social good entrepreneur Kimberly Bryant, founder and self-acknowledged “accidental nonprofit executive director” of the nonprofit, Black Girls Code.

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APRIL 28, 2009

I have not been blogging because I've been at the NTEN NTC Conference , the premier event for nonprofit techies taking place in San Francisco. I've been coming to this conference for ten years now and it's a like a family reunion. The deal was if she raised the $10,000, the community could vote on her public humiliation.

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MARCH 2, 2012

I caught up with Christy Thomas, Marketing Administrator, and Annika Nonhebel, Education Director from Axis Dance Company , a participant in a capacity building program I designed called “ Becoming An Arts Networked Nonprofit.” Ah, that’s a lot of work you must be thinking. Or, why test with such a small sample size.

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MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Next we heard from Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is Founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada and based in Kenya. Are these similar or different than in the US?

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