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13NTC Sketchnotes: Mindful or Mind-full

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Sketchnotes: Mindful or mind-full Since a big part of this session was on visual note-taking as a way of focusing attention, here are my notes (1.5 MB) – minus content from yours truly (since I was up delivering it at the time, and "Wait a sec while I sketch what I just said" can get awfully tedious for people).

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Tips for Content Curators from Beth Kanter: How To Avoid Getting "Content Fried"

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Read the rest of article, and the complete issue on "Content Curation" when you subscribe to the journal for free! ]. Becoming "content fried" is a potential hazard for content curators, and that can get in the way of being efficient. By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. Establish Rituals: Rituals in your work life are valuable.

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The Unanticipated Benefits of Content Curation: Build Staff Expertise and Reduce Information Overload

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Read the rest of the article, and the complete issue on Content Curation, when you subscribe to the journal for free! ] By Beth Kanter, Author of Beth's Blog Content curation is the process of sifting through information on the web and organizing, filtering and making sense of it and sharing the very best content with your network.

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Five Tips to Manage Your Professional and Personal Brand in Social Media

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What ‘big idea’ should come to mind when people hear or see your name? Knowing these attributes can help guide the content you write and how frequently you post. Draft a personal positioning statement for yourself. What are you passionate about and what makes you unique? Who are you are trying to reach?

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Using Technology for Mission: Ontario 211 and NTEN Hear From the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

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What’s the biggest technology change you’ve implemented in your organization in the last few years? The launch of a new website in January 2011 (new design and updated content from the previous iteration), this included an increased focus on Facebook and the addition of a Twitter account.

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Reflecting on NTEN Publications Accomplishments in 2011: We Launched a Digital Journal for Nonprofit Leaders!

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Background As part of NTEN’s strategic planning in 2010, we identified a particular constituency in the nonprofit sector that our current programs weren’t directly serving: the non-technical leaders who make the strategic decisions, approve the budgets, and have the big picture in mind about the direction and work of their organizations.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

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The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. While it may be obvious that programmatic strategy – decisions that affect your coworkers, your volunteers, or your organization's mission – shouldn't be based on "snap judgments", it's incredibly hard to make the human mind work any other way.

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