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Guest Post by Holly Hight: When Controlling the Message Stifles Community (and Staff Morale)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Our use of social networking has exposed many cultural differences within our organization. I am part of a large group of staff within our nonprofit that interacts with our supporters on a daily basis. Policy and research staff have a different culture than those of us who work directly with individuals on the group.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. It isn’t about content, although that is important.

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Games for Change Keynote: James Shelton, US Department of Education

NTEN

You are in the business every day of figuring out how to have people engage, have fun, and build skills - change their behaviors through games. That's teaching. Fundamentally that's what teaching should be. I'm now in the process of trying to build requirements that let many different people apply to participate.

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Five tips for software systems training

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Adriano and I have had some long conversations over the years about how to best provide the training organizations need to make effective use of their information systems, and he led us in experimenting with a lot of different ways of doing training. It's easy to teach someone how to issue an invoice. But who is the customer?

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

I mean, she’s a CFRE and she even teaches a CFRE class. And for all of us who are parents who had privilege of teaching these children, just be glad you’re still like those little people. There is a whole group, a support group for us. Some late hours at different times, for sure. Absolutely.

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Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Grossman Via His.

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, January 15, 2011 Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Grossman Via His New App If you havent engaged with David Grossmans website, Blog and incredibly useful eBooks, make a point of checking them all out at his website for The Grossman Group. David just launched his new App, called " Ask David."

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Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategic Plan Mike Brown, the founder of the Kansas City company called, The Brainzooming Group, encourages business leaders to solicit feedback from their customers when creating a strategic plan. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.