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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. In our panel discussion, Laura was asked about being mindful in our philanthropy and giving.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

The human mind, it turns out, is an extremely efficient manager of the chaos of life. While it may be obvious that programmatic strategy – decisions that affect your coworkers, your volunteers, or your organization's mission – shouldn't be based on "snap judgments", it's incredibly hard to make the human mind work any other way.

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Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? Hogwash! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Here are a few of the basic facts to keep in mind when you think about this question: (1) Fundraising online, even according to its most outspoken boosters, accounted for little more than 2 percent of total funds raised by U.S. nonprofits in 2008. 6) Social networking is fun – no doubt about it.

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