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How can you create a safe place for hands-on learning from social media pilots?

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Touching A Starfish at Monterey Bay Aquarium : Source Flickr Photo by Beth. Tags: change management. A few weeks ago, we drove down to Monterey for a visit to the Aquarium. The kids loved, especially the hands-on exhibits. What better way to learn about a starfish than to pick up and hold it in your hands.

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What do Innovative Organizations Have in Common?

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Flickr Photo: Vermin Inc On Wednesday, the kind folks at Russ Reid allowed me to invade a little think thank they held with some clients about social media and its applications in the nonprofit organization. Tags: beth kanter change change management Leadership roxy allen seth godin Social Media.

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Ctrl+Alt+Delete: Rebooting Your Digital Community Building

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Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. By Jamie Millard and Lori L. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth.

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Social Media Behind the Firewall: The Tire, Tower, or Hub and Spoke?

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As Charlene Li pointed out, " Change management processes take years - you don't change over night. Flickr Photo by MR+G. Flickr Photo by Colmmacc. Tags: change management. For this post, I wanted to focus on the first issue - the mismatch between organizational culture and social media adoption.

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How Big Is Your Moat?

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Flickr Photo: Lawrence OP A couple of years ago, I talked to Ed Granger-Happ about his philosophy for running the IT shop at Save the Children. Tags: Change Management do something george weiner NPTech NTEN IT Staff. The work they do is life-saving, so he felt it was important to be always looking for better ways to get it done.

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New Research: 10 Case Studies on Nonprofit Transition to the Cloud

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Flickr photo credit: Podrunzy. We welcome your feedback and stories on this topic -- do these case studies reflect your experiences? Are there other challenges with this topic that you'd like NTEN to address in future studies? Let us know in the comments below!

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Technology Leaders Are Change Agents: Discussion from the NTEN Community

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Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. Here's a little more background from him on this topic: " I spent my days at [a for-profit company] working with managers on process improvement.