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Friday Food for Thought: Watching the Game Film (for Nonprofits)

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This guest post is from Jacob Smith, the co-author of The Nimble Nonprofit. I’m really excited about this new comprehensive, honest resource for nonprofit leaders, and hope you’ll check it out! I asked Jacob to write a guest post here to get us all thinking, and hopefully talking. Would love to hear your thoughts! —– For professional [...]

May 11, 2012 3 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Online Community Organizing: Start small, think big!

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NetSquared’s February series exploring “Online Community Organizing” includes three different interviews; I’m really excited to participate! As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. I’m passionate about changing the world through community building [...]

February 29, 2012 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Interview: SXSW4Japan Raises over $120,000 #sxswcares

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South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive is a conference, that takes place each Spring in Austin, TX, with over 20,000 web influencers, emerging tech, and creatives. Last month, the Japan earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, the first day of the conference. SXSWcares, co-branded as SXSW4Japan, was a campaign that rallied the SXSW community [...]

April 7, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

My friend, Mazarine Treyz, is an accomplished woman: She is passionate about life and supporting nonprofit organizations. She’s worked in development offices of all sizes and has recently put her years of experience and training down on paper in The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising. I’m also excited to announce that I’ll be giving away [...]

February 21, 2011 15 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

$100,000 in Three Days: An Interview about #TeamAutism

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Earlier this month, Samsung Hope for Children, the national philanthropic initiative of the world’s technology leader, and the Dan Marino Foundation launched a new social action campaign, “Team Up for Autism,” in conjunction with the first annual WalkAbout for Autism organized by the former NFL quarterback’s foundation. The initiative set about to help raise awareness [...]

February 11, 2011 5 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

My Colorado Project empowers local change: Interview with Jason Manke

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I recently came across the My Colorado Project when Jason Manke connected with me, asking for feedback and ideas about community building and online community engagement tools. I’m really interested in the work Community Shares is doing and the direction they are headed with this project as it seems very aligned with many of my [...]

January 31, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Interview with Rob Wu & Public Launch of CauseVox

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I’m not sure if you caught the news today but CauseVox has launched their public beta! I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit [...]

January 26, 2011 7 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

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I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made [...]

January 20, 2011 3 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact.  I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from [...]

June 28, 2010 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…