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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

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. We wanted to give everyone a chance to get more familiar with the tools, and, more importantly, understand how social media is relevant to their goals.

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Guest Post by Michael Sola: A Day of the Life of NWF's Social Media Outreach Coordinator Danielle Brigida

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Valera Maltoni wrote in her post about ten tips for building movements, “ make advocates feel like rock stars - give people your attention. He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC. Tags: change management guest blogging relationships. Being heard, counting, being recognized.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Demographics Are Destiny: How and Why to Diversify Your Staff Now!

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I am making an essentialist argument here, but it's my belief that unless we diversify our organizations by race and ethnicity, we will find it hard to succeed and stay relevant in light of the changing demographics of the country. Last year, I moderated a panel at Women in Green in Pasadena, CA.

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Give Positive Feedback. Don't Praise.

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, November 20, 2010 Give Positive Feedback. There is an important difference between giving your employees positive feedback and giving them praise. So, skip the praise and give positive feedback that is more uplifting to your employees because it goes to the heart of their job performance and what they actually do.

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How To Give Constructive Feedback

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Saturday, July 10, 2010 How To Give Constructive Feedback Eric Harvey and Al Lucia wrote a booklet called " 144 Ways To Walk The Talk." They provide the following great, simple and straight-forward advice about giving feedback: Make it timely -- give your feedback as soon as possible to the performance. Don't Praise.

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How to Make Your Big Vision Real: Jennifer Lee of Artizen Coaching

Have Fun - Do Good

What are tips, exercises, or advice you give them to deal with that fear? What advice are you giving to people about that? This is really giving people permission to plan in a way that's accessible to them, but it's not a scary, horrible, painful, yucky thing. In coaching, we have a term called the "gremlin" or the "saboteur."

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