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Drones, Robots, and Farmers—Prepare Your Association to Meet Fast-Moving Technology Trends

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It opens services and activities to ongoing evaluation and adjustment. One of the major conclusions of an innovation study conducted by Amanda Kaiser was that the CEO’s openness to new ideas has a huge impact on an organization’s ability to change and adapt. There can be many reasons why this happens.

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Disruption Sunny Side Up 

.orgSource

As time goes by, we are becoming complacent again and less open to reinvention, especially in the area of membership initiatives. You need to be able to clearly articulate: Draw a distinction between yourself and the competition. You’ll have some difficult conversations, but the alternative is stagnation. It takes courage. “If

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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What software freedom means to me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. I could easily argue that for the overwhelming majority of places you need an operating system, the free and open source alternatives are better (if you count the BSD core of the Mac OS.

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What's Your Big Idea for Change in America?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Rattray, Change.Org's founder, describes it as - "to create an open-sourced advocacy platform that identifies and then mobilizes resources around the best ideas for how to change the country."

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters. ” questions.

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Building a Culture of Experimentation

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They are open to possibilities. If she is not willing or able to articulate a potential change, it’s not a prototype—it’s just a model of a foregone conclusion. Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that? Innovators and change-makers may not be.

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