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

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We talked with entrepreneurs across our community. We selected this group because, as independent business owners, they were acutely aware of the challenges of digital markets and the attitudes needed for success. Ongoing transformation requires adjustments to perspectives, attitudes, and behavior.

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Build a Mission-Worthy Team

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If you’re interviewing prospective employees, be as clear about the company’s expectations for behavior and attitude as you are about the professional skills required. Using Suzanne Bell’s example, it can be helpful to consider both the technical and psychosocial roles that will facilitate the work.

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Finally, A Clear Shift in Attitudes About Measuring Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I detected a clear shift in attitudes in the audience at the conference based on the audience questions. The measurement and analytics community declared war on social media vanity metrics several years ago and is continuing to work on standardized social media metric s that are not bs.

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Move DEI Beyond Words

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The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Trye Nichols prompted vocal support for social justice throughout the business community. The following numbers reveal that progress in the association community is not as rapid as we would hope. We commit to using these practices for our business and our communities.

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Why Our Definition Of Nonprofits Restricts Problem Solving

Bloomerang

In his book, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World , Pallota writes: “The nonprofit sector is critical to our dream of changing the world. To empower people to be the change they want to see, one must facilitate philanthropy. Why are we fighting amongst ourselves? All of them.

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Social Media and the Arts: How Strong Is Your Social Net?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. Management attitudes.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

As nonprofits attempt to tackle some of our communities' most difficult problems; funders, government agencies and the general public are actively calling for accountability, transparency and proof that a program is producing change. What attitudes toward evaluation are present? Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. are available?