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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. In the interest of our businesses, our country, and our society, we have to relearn an old lesion: focus on both profits and people ,” explains Mulligan. Mulligan : This really came into focus for me after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Happy Thanksgiving: Check out #Goodspotting and EpicThanks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom.

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How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Mulligan tackles in, Hire Purpose , education, training, the classroom, the workplace and workers. In the interest of our businesses, our country, and our society, we have to relearn an old lesion: focus on both profits and people ,” explains Mulligan. Mulligan : This really came into focus for me after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Speaking too soon

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

. :-) I first started doing technology consulting for nonprofit organizations in 1996, with a project for a local public television station ( WGBY in Springfield, MA ), to design a technology center for teachers to learn about technology and the internet, so they could apply that in their classrooms. It just wasn’t happening very well.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

Museum 2.0

a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, mediated by their objects. There was Jaime Kopke's Denver Community Museum , which existed for nine months in a Denver storefront in 2008-9 to celebrate visitors' creations. They come up with a theme, a date, and invite people to come. There is paper and pens to write labels.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. It is being used less for remote participation and more for people in the room.