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Make This a More Inclusive Season of Giving: Tips for Diversity in Your End-of-Year Fundraising Appeal

sgEngage

Engage in meaningful conversations with donors. Conduct your own research about the faiths practiced in your community. Kwanzaa teaches that giving back is a necessity, so reciprocity and philanthropy are inherent to the holiday. How to be more accommodating to and respectful of multiple holiday traditions?

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

Training, reading, and practicing are three key elements in becoming a better leader. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. Read Fierce Conversations. Book group, conversation, whatever. Also practice empathy, and gratitude.

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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

Tech Soup

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Using the dots, they will indicate if they would "Like" (blue), "Share" (yellow), or "Comment" (green) on the post.

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User Experience: What Can Frank Lloyd Wright Teach Us?

Forum One

Instead of widening the ledge or putting the vase somewhere more practical, he cut out a circle of glass in the window behind the vase so it could sit squarely on the ledge. Incidentally, here's a lovely set of images of several Wright homes with brilliant green foliage as a backdrop. Does it adhere to best practices?

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11 Highlights from BlogHer '11

Have Fun - Do Good

Photo by Green LA Girl ) 2. Teaching The Essential Blog Content Development Workshop I loved co-facilitating the Essential Blog Content Development Workshop with Elizabeth Soutter of Da Momma: Motherhood is Not for Wimps , and Julie Weckerlein of Julie and Martin. Hanging out with Siel/Green LA Girl. Siel of Green LA Girl.

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