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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Don’t tolerate hidden agendas, negative attitudes, or behavior that’s disruptive to the group. Be clear about accountability.

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Are Marketing and Membership at Opposite Poles? Take the Journey to Collaboration

.orgSource

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Don’t tolerate hidden agendas, negative attitudes, or behavior that’s disruptive to the group. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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A Technology Assessment Connects Intention and Ability

.orgSource

My writing about digital leadership often focuses on values and attitudes. Kevin Ordonez,orgSource’s Managing Director of Digital Strategy, explains what you have to gain from an assessment this way. It’s also a chance to adjust processes, staff skill sets, and align with the future road maps of your technology partners.”

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When Your Powers Combine: Why Nonprofit Mergers Should Not Be Feared

NonProfit Hub

With his bright green hair, crystal blue skin and environmentally-focused attitude, Captain Planet was the ultimate do-gooder. More common is when one board of directors votes to dissolve and transfer its assets to another organization. In the early ‘90s, a new superhero burst onto the scene. Come Together.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: I Am An Elitist Jerk

Museum 2.0

It’s an experience that requires permits, maps, physical ability, gear—a long list of barriers to entry. But if I were a parks interpreter, an experience provider, that attitude would be reprehensible and highly derogatory towards guests. In the Tetons, I had a highly exclusive, hard to access, fabulous experience.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Executive Creative Director of frog design , Robert Fabricant, leads multidisciplinary design teams, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School. Otherwise, attitudes don't change. Social Media Strategy As Design Process. He taught a session on social design right before the social media strategy game at the end of the day.

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Guest Post by Peter Campbell: The ROI on Flexibility

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, frankly, cleaning a case of the conflickr worm off of the desktop of an attorney that just took down a set of high-paid corporate attorneys with data grabbed from some innovative mapping application that our web-filtering software would have mistakenly identified as a gaming site is well worth the effort.

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