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

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Flickr photo by Geoff Livingston. 1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. Here they are: My Three Rituals.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

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I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. We used a virtual sticky note app called NoteApp.

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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

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You are invited to a virtual book launch party ! As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I explored some of the tools and techniques to apply some of the big ideas about understanding social networks that are our book, The Networked Nonprofit. Organizational reporting. Communications flows.

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The Challenges of Protecting Intellectual Property on Social Networks

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It’s clear that protecting intellectual property (IP) is virtually impossible on the major social networks. But if your nonprofit values its intellectual property, use secondary services such as a privately hosted blog, a video site or a photo site like Flickr with strong intellectual property protection.

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NpTech Summary: Red T-Shirt Day - Supporting Monks, YouTube Nonprofit Channel, and Web2forDev Conference Reports

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Flickr Photo by Villoks Many people around the world are supporting the Monks in Burma by wearing red t-shirts today or participating in vigils like this one in Cambodia outside the Burma embassy. Virtual drinks are very much needed on this Facebook profile. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. Fundraising 2.0

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

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Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface. Given that you are starting a virtual representation of people - you may be proned to projection.

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NGOS, Collaborative Technologies, and Interesting Women!

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I didn't go (too expensive for my budget), but I had the pleasure of having dinner in Boston's North End with Nancy White (who was attending and leading a workshop on virtual meetings ) and a few other conference participants, including two fascinating women who work in the areas of collaborative technologies, online learning, and NGOS.