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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? We have a mix of staff who dived into social media long ago (see our business innovation blog and green business twitter feed ), and others who have maybe sort of heard of Twitter.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

We're looking down at our BlackBerries. We knew there would be a lot of people there, who were either struggling with cancer directly, or indirectly, or who wanted to become more knowledgeable about it, and were probably carrying a little bit of heaviness in their heart while they were there. We're looking down at our BlackBerries.

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Steve Bridger ›

Steve Bridger

Follow comments here with the RSS feed. One thing that helps people rise out of poverty is a reliable way of storing and exchanging the value built up through effort and knowledge. In speaking of social media, I was joking with my husband that I had better get a Blackberry or something to be able to tweet during a hurricane!

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