[slideshare id=35006384&doc=knight-new-jersey-final-140522105151-phpapp01] Earlier this month, I facilitated a workshop for leaders of community foundations in New Jersey for the Knight Digital Media Center on the topic of practical network leadership skills. The workshop covers several topics including: Understanding the networked mindset Visualizing professional and organizational networks and understanding how to leverage for organizational goals Applying these techniques to … [Read more...]
Are you a giver, taker, or matcher?
Points of Light annual Conference on Volunteering and Service kicks off today. Best Selling Author Adam Grant, "Give and Take" will be doing a big session called "It’s About Science! Unpacking the Relationship Between Volunteering, the Brain and the Body" on June 20th. I was invited to a briefing session with other media and bloggers to learn more. I first head of this book after reading this article in the New York Times back in March, 2013. I immediately ordered a copy and I've been reading … [Read more...]
How Nonprofit Leaders Make Time for Social Media and Other Secrets to Adoption
Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center's Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. At the end of the month, I'll be facilitating a workshop at the 92nd Street Y in NYC call "Social Media Mindsets and Toolsets for Nonprofit," an interactive workshop is for executive directors and organizational leaders that work for nonprofits and want to … [Read more...]
Nonprofit CEOs and the Network Mindset
Today, I have the honor of doing a session at The Allstate Foundation's 60th Anniversary Executive Summit (hashtag #60summit) where I'll be talking about leading nonprofits with a network mindset. Last week, I gave the ending keynote about Mindful or Mind Full Social Media at the Social Media for Nonprofits Silicon Valley Conference. I stayed for the entire, listening to the presentations (Check out summary for tweets, slides, and resource links). SF Goodwill's CEO, Debbie … [Read more...]
Generation Rwanda: Two Stories
As part of the ACE Leadership Training, we had several site visits to bring some of the real world into our discussions. The group visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The site was established in 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the genocide in partnership with the Rwanda Government, Kigali City Council, and Aegis Trust, a charity in the UK dedicated to the prediction, prevention, and ultimately elimination of genocide. The site operations a Genocide Archive, a Museum, Education and … [Read more...]
