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Geek Heresy

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He uses this to analyze why many technology interventions are successful in the pilot phase and fail when they go to scale. In the pilot phase, you frequently have the best (human) conditions: the best partners and the best program staff making something work. Avoid indiscriminate dissemination of packaged interventions.

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3 ways to breathe new life into your membership in 2020

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Consider what your members are doing and what they may be looking for from your organization in each phase of their career. But even among Super Members, who are more likely to have participated in most of the activities tested, less than half say they’ve participated in any engagement opportunity. Focus on member engagement.

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Don’t get ghosted by your members

Nimble AMS

Even among the most loyal member segment (Super Members), who are more likely to have participated in most of the activities tested in the study, less than half say they’ve participated in any one engagement opportunity. Invite them to serve as a mentor, or even hold a leadership position.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I mean, most recently, I tried to come up with like five or six keys to collaboration, and it goes back to one of my mentors, Jeff Jarvis, who says, "Do what you do best, and link to the rest." If someone's listening and thinking, "I'll do air testing in Montana!" I agree, and that's some of the things that I'm learning.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

World Pulse is really at a point where we've demonstrated proof of concept, and we've tested all of our media channels over the years. There are a lot of things that are different from the start up phase. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors. I am very much a social entrepreneur.

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