Will you help to prevent suicide?

June 20, 2009

Please support AFSP. The Overnight takes place next weekend in Chicago. I have participated in this event in the past, walking 20 miles from dusk until dawn to raise awareness and funds. Please Donate Now. Watch the video:

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VolunteerMatch opens up

June 19, 2009

Volunteermatch.org, by far one of the best “matchmaking” websites online for helping nonprofit organizations find volunteers by matching up user preferences with organizational needs – is opening up its network for public access. What does this mean? According to Allyson Kapin at FrogLoop, it means that VolunteerMatch will be able to have even greater positive [...]

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Feed my Twitter Addiction? Learning from a digital native.

June 5, 2009

This video is hysterical – it’s by Kaleb Nation (aka Twilight guy) – and extremely creative, talented author, musician, blogger and more. He is a digital native. I shared this because it is VERY entertaining, plus this is a learning opportunity. Here’s why: He has more that 7500 followers on Twitter His YouTube channel has [...]

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Seven Examples of Twitter Innovation

June 5, 2009

Previously Twitter-resistant, I am now a Twitter-convert and continue to be inspired by ways that people and organizations are using Twitter. Please let me know if you have any examples you would like to share and I will link to them! Seven Examples of Twitter Innovation: City of San Francisco 311 program People can send [...]

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Be a lifelong learner: 6 great online (and free) resources

June 4, 2009

Last year, I wrote a post on my other blog about “living my best life”, one of the items I listed is being a lifelong learner. There are so many things that I don’t know and that I want to learn, but there is so little time! Fortunately for me, this is the age of [...]

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Creating a social network for your members

April 20, 2009

Now more than ever, association professionals must continuously define ways to deliver a valuable experience for members. Nurturing relationships, facilitating connections, sharing knowledge and ideas – all of these things are great in theory, but how do you really make them work? Here are a few strategies: Keep it simple and easy to use – [...]

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Building a strong online reputation

April 17, 2009

I just read an excellent article from Knowledge@Wharton, “Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks.” Many of the ideas and concepts I have been working on lately around being fully engaged in your own online brand are discussed in this article. The bottom line – it pays off to invest time in developing [...]

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Content, Conversation and Community

April 16, 2009

I just got back from presenting at ASAE’s Springtime meeting in DC – Using Social Networks to Promote and Sustain Your Meeting’s Longevity – with my longtime colleague, Margaret Core. It was a great discussion on using social networks to strengthen your brand, and keeping your audience engaged year-round using a variety of tools. We [...]

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Associations, The Value of Membership, and Social Media

January 22, 2009

All of us in the Association community are trying to figure out ways to deliver on the member value proposition. With economic challenges, increased competition from other groups, we must use our collective brainpower to figure out new and innovative ways to do this. Being that I live in the online world and have been [...]

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Strengthening your online presence: 3 things every Association can do right now

October 19, 2008

Are you scared or tired of everyone using the terms “social media” or “web 2.0″?  Do you recognize that you need to jump in to the world of social media but don’t know where to begin? Do you need to strengthen your online reputation? The online world these days can be confusing at best – [...]

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