I'm facilitating a peer learning project on practical networked leadership skills for emerging nonprofit leaders. As we all know, living in a networked world creates opportunities for abundance. But having many choices and opportunities requires developing a special set of skills in order to be successful. These skills are: self-management and attention training. That's the focus of one of the sessions - so I have been reflecting a lot on this topic to come up with some useful exercises, … [Read more...]
The Benefits of Using Data to Bring Mindfulness to Your Work
Never in a million years did I ever think I would use data and mindfulness in the same sentence. For the past two months, I've been wearing a rock in a bra, a device called Spire. You think of it as a fitbit for stress developed by the Calming Technology Lab at Stanford University. You wear it in your bra or clip it to your waist, and it measures your breath. It streams data to an app on your phone like your step count, but more importantly gives you a report on whether you are calm, … [Read more...]
@knightfdn Offers Free Webinar Series on Taking Giving Days to the Next Level
Note from Beth: I've been facilitating a community of practice of community foundations, Knight Foundation grantees, over the past two years, that have been using the Knight Foundation Giving Day Playbook to take their practice to the next level. Starting in August, Knight will host a Webinar series that will address a range of topics, from how to land corporate sponsorships to using a Giving Day to build your community foundation’s brand. And, because more and more communities are actively … [Read more...]
7 Social Media Toolsets for 2016 by @jeremycaplan
Jeremy Caplan is the Director of Education, Tow-Knight Center Entrepreneurial Journalism and an amazing teacher. I've never met him face-to-face, but I've learned some much from reading and using his curated instructional materials. He recently shared "Toolsets for Social Media," a brilliantly curated collection of tools. Before we dig into the content, let me point out why this so brilliant. A stellar example of content curation: Content curation is not aggregation or a big gigantic … [Read more...]
What I Learned In London at the Future of Social Conference
I am just back from spending a few days in London where I keynoted the "Future of Social" Conference hosted by Social Misfits Media with a talk about Gen Z or as they say in the UK, Gen Zed. I also facilitated several workshops for London-based nonprofit CEOs and communications directors on developing a strategy for their leadership profiles on social and internal champions (board, staff, and volunteers). The first half of the conference featured talks from three platforms that discussed … [Read more...]
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 65
- 66
- 67
- 68
- 69
- …
- 233
- Next Page »
