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How Open Source Sparks Innovation and Advances Social Good

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I recently had the opportunity to give an interview for Red Hat’s online magazine, Opensource.com , and discuss Benetech’s culture of “open.” It allows us to build and improve upon the knowledge of predecessors, as well as to make knowledge available for future users and developers.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Abilities : Your competencies that help you integrate your knowledge, skills, and experiences so you can respond to situations in the most effective way possible. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills. The most tangible is your know-how, which includes your practical knowledge and skills.

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Seven Tips for Techies in a Nonprofit Job Interview

NTEN

By Amy Potthast, Director, Service and Graduate Programs, Idealist As a non-techie, I think I can safely say that a hiring nonprofit's current staff may have so little technical knowledge, they don't even know what skills are needed to do a job they want done. I chatted with my colleagues on Idealist's web team for pointers to pass along.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Abilities : Your competencies that help you integrate your knowledge, skills, and experiences so you can respond to situations in the most effective way possible. Know-how : Your knowledge and skills. The most tangible is your know-how, which includes your practical knowledge and skills.

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Surviving As A New Nonprofit: 12 Focus Areas For Nonprofit Leaders

Bloomerang

According to Forbes magazine, one quarter of fledgling nonprofits will close their doors this coming year and almost half will be gone within three years of founding. Have several interviews before you offer the job. . For new nonprofits, learning lessons the hard way is a luxury they can ill afford. Here are some recruiting tips: .

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars: Jason Shim

Tech Soup

Restless Knowledge Sharing. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations. He is co-founder of Roo.io , a handy tool to record phone interviews on mobile devices. I also like Psychology Today.

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Success Stories From 10 Successful Entrepreneurs From Around The World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Susanna has a big techie network, as an early community leader at the pivotal publication Wired and then on the staff of Macworld , PCWorld and Outside magazines. Over the next few years, we interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, startups, and ecosystem builders. We both started in tech in San Francisco. They could imagine a new world.

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