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From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From the Kids’ Table to the Adults’ Table: Taking Relationships Seriously in a World of Networks guest post by John Esterle, Malka Kopell & Palma Strand. In recent years, funders, practitioners and academics have been paying more and more attention to the role of social networks in addressing issues of public concern.

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Heartland Pride: Winner of the #npfail Little Bets Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second year we made changes and moved our event to a large park in Omaha and in doing so we were able to save the organization more than 25K in expenses and make it possible for us to retain more of our profits allowing us to provide larger grants and scholarships to help the local LGBT community!

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the US, I keynoted and gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Pittsburgh , North Carolina , Buffalo , and Omaha. I keynoted at the Grant Manager’s Network Conference and was on a panel with Alex Samuel and Jeremiah Owyang at SXSW. I also gave a plenary talk at AFP in San Antonio, Texas. My Three Words.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Myths about Women as.

ASU Lodestar Center

Interestingly, women are very interested in social networking and have evidenced faster growth in the use of Facebook than have men. Both men and women respond well to social networking, depending upon their generation, for it is by age group – not gender – that differences in use appear. 9 ^ [8] Ibid, Pg.