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Celebrating 25 Years of Innovation and Impact: Reflecting on Our Journey

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I say “officially” because May 1 is the date on our incorporation papers, but the real date is April 22, when I opened up shop in shared office space in Georgetown, Washington, DC. Although I love to take photos and videos, I’m not actually one to spend a lot of time looking back.

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Tips for Remote Presenting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. I talked about the change in workstyle that is needed before codifying a social culture through a social media policy.

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#14NTC Round-Up: Your Takeaways

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What Gets Measured Gets Better

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. We have always done this by tracking policy outcomes and media coverage. Kitten photos? As a trainer, I always like to check back with participants 6 months to year after a training to see how they are doing.

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

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Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency. Participatory. Collaborative. We want to rock the sector.).

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08NTC Day of Service: Wireless Network Installation and Training at the Community Center of St. Bernard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Kalabird Johanna Bates climbs a ladder to install the wireless nodes. Michaela Hackner got some excellent photos of the work down at the Community Center. With regard to policy, one point she made really made an impact on me. Here in DC, we get caught up in many debates that really don???t

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and push for policies that will put the world on track to reduce our planetary CO2 to safe levels - 350 parts per million. The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). org, a Networked Nonprofit.

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