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Two Ways To Use Crowdsourcing for Face-to-Face Conferences

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Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. Does crowdsourcing enhance or bring value to face-to-face conferences? Planning for the overall conference agenda, design of specific sessions, or other ways? Here’s a few examples I’ve seen lately. Crowdsourcing the Conference Agenda. Where is it most useful?

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The Upcoming E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference in South Africa

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Industry, including e-waste recyclers, refurbishers, environmental auditors, and consultants, as well as policy leaders from many countries globally, will be participating in this event. Industry and policy leaders will share information on the current state of African electronics recycling and refurbishment policy and practice.

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Social Media and Governance: Reflections from BoardSource

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I did some live demonstrations including Twitter and Flickr. I posted a photo of them on Flickr and asked people on Twitter to share why they thought it was a valuable. We got 100 comments 5 minutes from nonprofit and other professionals sharing why they thought it was valuable. Board source.

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How and Why Stories Can Bust Nonprofit Silos

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Flickr Photo by Rex Hammock. Inspired by a session on busting organizational silos through digital storytelling delivered by the See3 team at the most recent Nonprofit Technology Conference, the National Institute for Reproductive Health is using its web content to move out the silos and bring in the stories.

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Emerging Technology, Engaging Youth, and Your Mission: YOLO!

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Flickr: jasonshim By Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people. This tends to address 95% of the questions that arise.

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Why Funders Need to Get Out of the Kitchen and Let the Nonprofits Cook More

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Flickr Photo by S. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Advocating for particular policies, likewise, can lead to positive systemic change.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

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Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. I’ve continued to do conference keynotes, workshops and facilitate staff retreats about activating a culture of wellbeing. Finally, we co-authored a policy brief for the Toda Peace Institute on artificial intelligence and its implications for civil society.