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Trend Blend 2009: A Map of Time and Tide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson. You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes. Climate change. Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. The mega-trends are: Global connectivity.

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The Fine Line Between Personal and Personality: Is Being A Human Unprofessional?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My rule for blending in personality is to always link it back in a way to my professional areas of interest. It's funny, one of my most popular and highly rated posts was about celebrating my 22nd wedding anniversary and sharing advice about blogger cultivation. Tags: change management.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. Otherwise, attitudes don't change. This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

Trevor O'Donnell : Leaders Use Their Words O'Donnell was not one of the invited bloggers but a commenter from the field (a follower. Museums shouldn’t change by lookingelsewhere; they should change by looking more carefully at themselves. or a good example of how silly the term "follower" is?).

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Community Engagement Teams

Connection Cafe

Author: Guest Blogger. The following post is by Kivi Leroux Miller and originally appeared as "Blending Marketing and Fundraising into Community Engagement Teams" on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog on July 6. So how to make this kind of merger work?

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Holly Stevens: Blogging as Storytelling

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Besides my deep passion for the potential of story to heal our hurting world, I also simply love being a cheerleader for people who are using their creative talents for positive social change. Bloggers are storytellers. What are some storytelling points that bloggers should think about and possibly incorporate into their writing?