I've just finished teaching an online course for The Knight Digital Media Center @ USC Annenberg for community foundation leaders on practical networked leadership skills. It covered how leaders can use their social channels as their authentic selves to engage with their communities and in leadership conversations with peers, social learning, and intentionally building and developing professional networks online. One of the classes was focused on "Smart Professional Online Networking" and … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
If the Ancient Greeks Had iPhone Separation Anxiety: Fitbippides
Noise to Signal Cartoon As my work as a trainer pivots more towards leadership development in a networked world, I've been doing more and more training on the topic of mindfulness at work techniques. The most recent session was about walking as work and professional colleagues, like Rob Cottingham, have noticed. He dedicated this hilarious cartoon to me and several others of his fitbit obsessed colleagues. Taking long walks is good for you in many ways as this blog post from Canva points … [Read more...]
Book Review: When Millennials Take Over and the Fluid Workplace
I am knee deep in developing a peer learning program for Millennial leadership development in nonprofit organizations that is designed based on the research out there. The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant's "When Millennials Take Over," written with Jamie Notter. When Millennials Take … [Read more...]
Reflections from #15ntc Session Walking As Work and 20/8/2 Rule
I just returned from my 15 consecutive Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN! This year I designed and facilitated a highly interactive session called "Walking is Work: Don't Call It A Break" with Ritu Sharma. I also lead a conference networking walk following the session. This post summarizes some thoughts and reflections. The slides and resources from the session can be found here. This highly interactive session covered the research on why sitting is bad and why … [Read more...]
Driving Toward Impact With Data Science #15ntc
Note from Beth: I'm attending and presenting a session about Walking As Work with Ritu Sharma. As luck would have it, one of the sessions that I really wanted to go to is scheduled at the same time as ours. It is a session about being Data Savvy featuring colleagues from Crisis Text Line, Global Giving, and DataKind. So, in lieu of a cloning machine, I'm publishing this guest post by By Friederike Schuur, DataKind Volunteer. From online shopping to online dating, our daily interactions … [Read more...]
