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Washington, DC: Book Launch Events
We were in Washington, DC on Thursday and Friday for our book tour for The Networked Nonprofit to celebrate with live and virtual events hosted by the Case Foundation and Chronicle of Philanthropy. We also keynoted the Nonprofit 2.0 Conference.
On Thursday afternoon, Peter Panepento, hosted a BlogTalk Radio show with us. This was the first [...]
Can Technology throw a party and save the whole Universe?
I went down to the city of New Orleans about a month ago in a quest to continue to explore how what I do for a living can make a difference for the world.
Don’t worry, it wasn’t all so serious.
Punch at your own weight
Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy was kind enough to publish the talk I gave at the European Foundation Centre’s conference on their Social Media for Philanthropy panel. You can see find it here:
http://www.tacticalphilanthropy.com/2010/06/punching-at-your-own-weight-in-social-media
Social Innovation - the emergence of a new social movement?
We’re excited to be hosting France’s first ever Social Innovation BarCamp. It’s happening in Paris on June 26, and it’s already a sold out event. But what is ’social innovation’? When do we know when we see it? And what are the implications of this relatively new field? We explore these questions and their significance below.
Interview: Kivi Leroux Miller, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide
I’ve followed Kivi’s work for years and am happy to call her a colleague and friend. She’s a go-to resource for nonprofit marketing and her new book is called The Nonprofit Marketing Guide (get your copy here). I’m thrilled to have the chance to share an interview with her here and encourage you to add your questions in the comments! This interview is part of her virtual book tour; check out the full calendar of events.
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Should Non-technical Organizations model Agile principles? (no brainer)
Organizations are nothing without structure.
Structures give people avenues for interacting with one another, and when there is a desire to accomplish work collectively they give us tools with which to share that work. There are many ways that organization an organization can choose to structure itself ranging from the very hierarchical structure in the armed forces to collaborative consensus models.
How the Revolution will be Wired
Background:
Communication is becoming increasingly web-based as the use of database-driven social media tools and apps becomes standard for social interactions, business, networking, and project management.
While this technology is being used by many, it is in the hands of relatively few: larger businesses and organizations with the resources to build and maintain comprehensive custom database driven technology platforms.
Can user generated content change the World?
An organization is a collection of people and resources whose common goals create an interdependence between them. The methods used to achieve these goals create flows of information, services, people and resources that mirror exchanges between stakeholders in the different communities they touch. These infrastructures (and the organizations that utilize them) become more effective the more they mirror the human systems which depend on them.
Is The Networked Nonprofit Is In Your Hands Yet?
I’ve been getting word on Twitter, Facebook, and elsewhere that people are receiving their copies of the book from Amazon. And their sharing photos Flickr and Facebook. Please share add yours to the collection!
Starting this week, our friends at SocialEdge have created a virtual book club where we will share brief excerpts from the book [...]
