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Washington, DC: Book Launch Events

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Book Party in at the Case Foundation: Who Has Their Hands on the Book. 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. Thank you so much for your support of the book.

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Green Enterpise Unconference: Timely Gathering, Dec 3rd, Mountain View CA

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The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ” we’re hosting on December 3rd is looking extremely timely and interesting. I heard Friedman speak last week at the Atlantic Magazine’s “Green Intelligence Forum” about his new book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Hope you can join us: The “ Green Enterprise Unconference ”. CarbonFlow.

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Foo Camp 2009

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It's structured as an unconference, where the 300 or so folks showing up design the conference program of roughly 70 sessions in about an hour the first night. One sample session was the one on the Google Book Settlement, led by Pam Samuelson of UC Berkeley. I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual.

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Allison Fine's New Book!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The day before I left for vacation I received a reviewer copy of Allison Fine's new book, Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age. It is not a tutorial or self-help book, but it is women helping their girlfriends, sisters, colleagues to stay connected and relevant in this new Connected Age." Check it out!

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Basic Facilitation Techniques for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others. Facilitated listening is made up of a number of techniques described in more detail in the book. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus.

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Thank You For Making The Networked Nonprofit Launch A Hit!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was a special launch day for our book, The Networked Nonprofit , thanks to you! On June 21st, the book was in the top 200 bestsellers on Amazon for the past five hours. We had a lot of fun with the Ustream live stream and Twitter chat where we discussed the themes from the book and answer questions. What a send off!

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The unconference/camp model of learning about technology issues is really great, but falls a little short when dealing with a specific tool, and an audience that is mostly unfamiliar with it. I learned a lot. link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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