I'm taking off my red hat off on #GivingTuesday (Dec. 3) to celebrate NTEN, a small nonprofit, and its work to support the largest and most caring community of nonprofit techies to do their best work. Join me for a chat on #GivingTuesday, December 3 at 9:00 am PST on my LinkedIn Influencer blog with NTEN CEO, Amy Sample Ward.  We'll be talking about NTEN's great work, #GivingTuesday, and why collective action and community participation is so powerful.  You can sign up for the chat here. But … [Read more...]

Conan O’Brien announced on his show that wanted to climb to the top of the LinkedIn Influencer list.   He has a long way to go.     For example, Bill Gates has 7 times as many followers on LinkedIn than Conan.   Why?  Bill Gates is a philanthropist and is part of the GivingTuesday Movement. Conan poked fun at me because I have more LinkedIn followers than him. He joked that my red hat is the key to my success – it was a funny monologue, but I am offering Conan a better way to increase his … [Read more...]

[slideshare id=27936330&doc=givingdayplaybookpresentationoct2013finalv2-131105140512-phpapp02]   Note from Beth: I'm working with the Knight Foundation to facilitated a peer exchange of community foundations that are hosting GivingDays using the Knight Foundation GivingDay Playbook, a guide with templates, tips, and examples hosting a successful day of giving.   I'm also an ambassador for GivingTuesday.   So, I'm so excited to host this guest post from By Mayur Patel, vice president of … [Read more...]

Yesterday, Veteran's Day, was a sad day for me.   I remembered my Dad, who passed away this year, who was a WW2 Vet and stationed in the Philippines.   I remember him telling me stories about his experience there , one poignant story about going into a rural village and finding it destroyed.  He and his fellow soldiers found a church bell in the jungle and returned it to the villagers who were overjoyed to have it although the church itself was destroyed. Almost twenty years ago, he took trip … [Read more...]