I had the opportunity last week to speak at the annual gathering of Leadership 18, a membership group of the nation’s largest health and human service providers. Gloria Johnson-Cusack, the CEO of the organization, asked me to address the following question: Our members are dipping their toes into the social media waters; so what?
I asked [...]
Social Media Lessons from Leadership 18
Network Weaving Personalities
My friend, Lisa Colton, wrote fascinating post on the personality of network weavers. Meyer-Briggs for network weavers, she called it. In the post Lisa asks a very provocative question: Do the different styles of network weavers (personality, skills, training, preferred tools, strategic objectives) produce different patterns of network maps?
I’ll start my answer on what we [...]
My Dream of Abundance
Nancy Schwartz extended a kind invitation to me to join the first Blog Carnival of 2012. The topic this month is to share our dreams for causes, organizations or the nonprofit sector this year. What a great way to ease my way back into blogging in this new year (I’m still calling it the new [...]
Embracing Free Agents
I was in Atlanta last week with the HandsOn Network gang. It was a fascinating immersion into creative process led by Michelle James (what she calls Creative Emersion.) The goal of the week was to introduce the futures thinking (with the amazing thinker/facilitator Rick Smyres) and social media to ten HandsOn affiliates to help them [...]
Giving Epic Thanks
This month’s Social Good podcast is a conversation about Epic Thanks, a program of Epic Change. Epic Change is a small organization started three years ago by Stacey Monk and her partner, Sanjay Patel, to support a community in Tanzania. Their signature fundraising effort takes place around Thanksgiving every year for the past three years. [...]
Move for Hunger
I had a great time speaking at the New Jersey Nonprofit Conference last week. In particular, I really enjoyed meeting Adam Lowy, the founder of a really great new organization called, Move for Hunger.
What you first learn about Adam is his story, he has a great one. His family has owned a moving company for [...]
Tactical Philanthropy Takes a Sabbatical
Graceful exists are had to come by, but Sean Stannard-Stockton has done just that on his blog, Tactical Philanthropy. His message was a simple one: I’m going to take a break from blogging for an indeterminate amount of time to focus on other things in my life, “my family, my community, my other personal passions [...]
Staying Close to Home for Hunger
I heard a beautiful sermon last night by Reverend Susan Copely of Christ Church in Tarrytown, NY. It was an interfaith service for all the congregations of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, the home of my congregation, Temple Beth Abraham. Reverand Copely was following up on the theme of hunger that we began two weeks ago [...]
Book Info
"In The Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness the power of social media to pursue their missions in partnership with two billion connected citizens."
"Thoughtful and thought provoking. Far from a technical manual, it raises compelling issues that deserve consideration by all nonprofit organizations."
—Clay Shirky, Author
Here Comes Everybody:
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Here Comes Everybody:
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
"Thoughtful and thought provoking. Far from a technical manual, it raises compelling issues that deserve consideration by all nonprofit organizations."
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
05/01/2008
05/01/2008
