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Advice for Consultants - Part 3

Robert Weiner

Build your list of references and qualifications, even if that requires doing pro bono or heavily discounted work. When projects end, ask clients to write testimonials and agree to serve as references. networking with people (and firms) who can refer their clients or subcontract with you. This will guide your business planning.

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Google reportedly asked employees to ‘strike a positive tone’ in research paper

The Verge

The authors then updated the paper to “remove all references to Google products.”. Another paper on using AI to understand foreign languages “softened a reference to how the Google Translate product was making mistakes,” Reuters wrote. The change came in response to a request from reviewers.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

Today, Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in the world. Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks – This new report from the Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute explores engaged communities: "Ten years ago, a tiny web site asked people to volunteer to write their own encyclopedia.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ll also be referring folks to resources for more formal learning and peer connections, like NTEN , the Nonprofit Technology Network and host of the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference and Netsquared and TechSoup Global – and of course sharing resources from our colleagues in the nonprofit/social media field.

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FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This post from the npEnterprise Listserv Allen Bromberger does some great pro bono work for the field by answering questions on the npEnterprise list, which is the official list of the Social Enterprise Alliance (where I am proudly a founding board member and am in my last term). FOR-PROFIT OR NONPROFIT?

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Discussion of Donor Data Retention

Robert Weiner

The same topic came up recently on the APRA''s listserve, PRSPCT-L. As far as your relationship to customers – do you need to reference past records? A few months ago I wrote a post on the topic of whether nonprofits should delete old donor records.

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Why Do We Interpret Art and Science So Differently?

Museum 2.0

Labels will reference the importance of her work in the context of the art world. Thank you to the ISEN listserv for helping spark this post, via the controversy over Richard Dawkins' denigrating remarks about informal science. The answer depends on what kind of museum you are visiting.

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