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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions. Welcome every proposal. The right team feeds off the energy of the group. Intimidation is Roundup for creativity.

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Content Curation for Nonprofits – Notes from #13ntccur8

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This blog post offers reflections and resources from the session. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled. The session was designed to balance content delivery with peer interaction.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She proposes several different times, leave your preferences in the comments. The proposed call agenda is here. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call. January 12, 2007.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. I wrote about the potential for aggregating RSS feeds of giving opportunities in a blog post called, Why We Need Group Fundraising RSS Feeds. Originally, adding actions manually.

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The Ultimate Guide to Year-End Giving for Nonprofits

Bloomerang

Describe how donors’ gifts will enable your nonprofit to help solve the proposed issue. Ensure all of your marketing materials reflect your organization’s brand by incorporating your logo, fonts, colors, and tone of voice. Wrap it up with a call to action. Make the issue as tangible as possible. Brand your year-end appeal. Wrapping up.

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Online Competitions: Lessons from MIT’s Service Innovation Challenge

Care2

We’d like to share a few of our major aims and reflect a bit on some lessons learned that we hope will guide our approach in the future and prove helpful to others designing competitions, challenges, and prize giveaways online – in particular those focused on social benefit and public service. Decentralize decision-making.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need.

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