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How Can Volunteer Coordinators Help Their Organizations Become Networked Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of this latter group of are veterans of what Extraordinaries’ Jacob Colker calls the “Command & Control Model” – programs that seek to control the relationship of the volunteer with the organization and/or cause. Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. Recruitment is just the start.

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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

Museum 2.0

The last ten years saw our work move toward the service sector as rentals become a very real part of our business model. I invite you to take to every platform you have to advocate for financial resources for our sector and org. Let’s make the doc a living document to help us make informed decisions.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. As Lucy would tweet later, “Pink is a color not an org.” Five hundred people?

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Can Nonprofit Organizations Work More Like Clouds? How?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think there's a portion of ppl in our org who are "cloud" people, but upper mgmt still resists it, hence a clash.". Via Twitter, Steve Ames, of RiverArts described more a " cloud computing " model of how they work (a topic that Marnie Webb addressed at the TechSoup Global Summit a few weeks ago).

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

Bloomerang

The chief operating officer in the ’50s developed this model that is true for all of us, and it’s called the J Curve. You have to model being a coach, and you’re going to wait so you can see over time, eventually, you start to see some tangible benefits. Japanese car manufacturer, I believe it was Toyota. Make change.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Although many platform companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have claimed credit for advancing a sharing economy—the preferred term for which is now solidarity economy —model, they don’t in fact fall under that category, because they seek to extract maximum profits from their operations.

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