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The Triple Bottom Line in India: Software, Quality Education, and Early Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teachgreen hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Six key lessons surfaced from our interviews with more than 35 global nonprofits. For Washington Trail Association volunteers like Chris O’Brien, donning an orange hard hat out on the trail is a badge of honour.

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How To Increase Customer Loyalty

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Fleming's techniques teach you how to acquire customers faster and how to create what he calls legitimate brand loyalty -- the type that helps to keep your business thriving. One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Thinking Strategically About Social Media. Social Change Behind the Firewall. The Intangible Benefits of Social Media.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is called “Rose, Bud, Thorn.” Participants reviewed their notes from the expert sessions, and wrote down challenges on blue sticky notes, strengths on pink sticky notes, and opportunities on green sticky notes. Groups would also get together to discuss failures and lessons learned, so the broader community can be more successful.

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Let’s Connect at the NTC!

Amy Sample Ward

Social Media Veterans (#smvets). What : This meeting is for for people at orgs who have been using social media for several years and will be a forum to exchange advanced level tips and stories, as well as share what’s worked and what hasn’t. Greening Your Technology – [Cottonwood B] (#greentech).

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Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes

Eric Jacobsen Blog

What youll read is primarily based on what Ive learned from a variety of mentors, co-workers and supervisors over the past 30 years. -- Eric Jacobson -- formerly a Senior Vice President at Penton Media in Overland Park, Kansas (Kansas City, MO). Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done.

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