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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

Could the issue be trust? But at.orgCommunity we like to explore issues before they become sound bites. The World Café Format To maximize the brain power of our.orgCommunity professionals and to allow for a robust exchange of ideas, Sharon facilitated this conversation in a World Café format.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

Applying reflection, reasoning, and individual experience to problem-solving is not part of the Summit supercomputer program, but it is an approach that is invaluable in making advantageous business decisions. Ask probing questions, consider a variety of opinions, including ideas that may be unpopular, and insist on objective analysis.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. One possible outcome is stagnation in innovation.

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GTD Meets GPT: How to Adopt The AI 2-minute Rule

Whole Whale

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. Instead, we should capture all of our tasks and ideas in a system, and then process them at a later time.

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Mid-Level Giving: Stuck in the Middle with Who

Connection Cafe

This topic has been of keen interest to me for many years now, and I am pleased to share my latest thoughts on it, as well as related issues in fund development. When I do not awaken to a song running through my head, I attribute that to my brain watching over me by not allowing The Joker to slip into my subconscious.

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Drawing Networks on Napkins with Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Co-Authors of Net Gains

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator.

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations Conference: What have you learned, Dorothy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The staples of Oz – courage, heart, and brains – are a good start. A harder step is culture, since a thriving learning organization needs personalities that are hard-wired for curiosity and analysis, which are often not the qualities a staff has been hired for. Not to mention the Munchkins and the flying monkeys.