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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

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I had a fantastic break, including a family vacation in Hawaii, walking, hiking, quiet, and reflection. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning my work flow for the day, week, month, and quarter and to reflect along the way. How about you?

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Peeragogy: Self Organized Peer Learning in Networks

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On Monday, Rheingold delivered the UC’s Regents Lecture , “Social Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy” prior to working with a group of students in a seminar and launching a process to co-construct a peeragogy handbook/sourcebook. Rheingold published this post as a backdrop to his Monday evening talk.

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Guest Post by Chad Norman: 5 Nonprofit Storytelling Lessons from a Master of Hip-Hop

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Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) Your story is yours, so give it a style and flair that reflects your culture and mission. "I

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Happy New Year: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

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I didn’t do a complete unplug, as we’re so dependent on the Internet for information in navigate our daily lives, which is a huge change since I first got online in 1993. And, now with those beautiful sunsets behind me, I look ahead to 2015. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas.

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection. One annual ritual is to create “To Do/Not To Do/Reflection” notebook where I use modified bullet journaling to track my progress. I had a wonderful break – filled with fun, family, walking, hiking, reading, quiet, and reflection.

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Learnings and Reflections from BlogHer about Mobile Phones for Video Blogging and Beyond

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My first exposure to "unconferences" or Open Space Technology was during a week-long arts and education professional development seminar in 1997. He suggested that a few pointers on shooting techniques and showing something like jumpcut because the video editing can be done online and convenient from a Internet Cafe.

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Online Strategies for Open-Government / Ideas from the Obama Team

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The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. city issues and indicators. That's pretty wide participation.