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Key Qualities and Skills to Look for in Potential Board Members

Blue Avocado

Susan Dibble from Page Ahead Children’s Literacy Program Caring Comes First, Everything Else Can Be Taught Our board members must care about our mission. It might be a good idea to get a few people on the board with commercial real estate experience, finance/lending folks, etc.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love the chapter on “The Symptoms of Information Obesity” where he shares a persona based on his wife, Rosalyn Lemieux , that illustrates how too much information can warp our sense of time and other ways it can be toxic to our lives. To increase digital literacy of our communities with good digital literacy skills.

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Net Smart: How To Thrive Online

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book covers five digital literacies – each starting with an illustration by Anthony Weeks that graphically communicates the key points. The attention chapter is about why and how to control your attention when you’re online. Don’t make attention training so rigid that it destroys flow.

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Six Books About Skills You Need To Succeed in A Networked World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The chapter on reflective practice is also essential if want to transform your social media metrics intos meaningful wisdom to improve your social media strategy – the chapter offers a process for doing so. Brian Solis’s The End of Business As Usual and Brian Reich’s Shift and Reset.

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. Kris Moore, Karen Walker, and David Murphey of Child Trends , expresses this well in this chapter from Leap of Reason – Performance Management: The Neglected Step in Becoming an Evidence-Based Program.

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Young Nonprofit Leader Award Winners Announced

Tech Soup

The Bay Area Chapter of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network recently announced the winners of its 2010 Young Nonprofit Leader Awards , and TechSoup's own Kami Griffiths was one of the honorees. As TechSoup's training and outreach manager, Kami manages TechSoup Talks! and various other training initiatives.

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You're Not Going To Ask Us To Give You An Outhouse For Your Birthday (1/11)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Two years ago, with funds from the Long Island chapter of the American Association of University Women, we were able to replace their highly arsenic contaminated well with a huge rainwater collection tank and delivery system to supply safe drinking water. I was so happy to get the kid to smile and look in the camera that I didn't notice!

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