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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget

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Prospective hires are explicitly looking for environments where they can expand their skills while contributing to (and participating in) the company’s success. But if you’re a Series A or a seed startup, and they’re also interviewing at Google and Netflix and Facebook, there’s something off there.”. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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People are Ready for a Vision-led Movement

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Last Thursday I went to hear Majora Carter from Sustainable South Bronx , Paul Hawken , author of Natural Capitalism and The Ecology of Commerce , Van Jones from the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , Geralina Fortier from People's Grocery , and Bruce Cox of the Alliance for West Oakland Development speak at the first Solutions Salon.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President. I said, "You write it.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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Van Jones Testifies Before Congress on Green Collar Jobs

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Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. I just finished listening to your podcast interview of Van Jones. This guy is a genius.

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I'm Speaking at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco

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If you have a book or a vision that should be shared with others, then we want to increase your skills and your support system to create your pathway to publication. When I interviewed Elizabeth last week for the Big Vision Podcast , she described the publishing process as being like a labyrinth. For more info.