Acknowledging Beth Kanter

Monday, 11 January 2010, 17:09 | Category : Uncategorized
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Celebrating Beth’s birthday today!
Wish her a Happy Birthday Monday on Twitter with: “Happy birthday #beth53! Let’s send 53 Cambodian kids to school: http://bit.ly/beth53″
Beth Kanter. Her name comes up anytime nonprofit professionals and the consultants who serve them have a discussion about social media. And her name recognition is well-founded. First, she has her [...]

Positive Deviants

Monday, 30 November 2009, 12:25 | Category : Coaching, Community, Social Change, Uncategorized
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I really love this term. It seems to hold contradiction in itself, as our (at least my own) conception of deviants is usually a negative one! To deviate, however, simply means to do differently. So ask the question – where is someone doing something different that has a positive impact? Here is a lovely article [...]

Fund Thrivable.org kick-off

Friday, 31 July 2009, 12:51 | Category : Coaching, Community, Field Building, Leadership, Social Change, Uncategorized
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After three years of exploration and network building, writing and discussion, planning and processing, Thrivable.org is just about ready for kick-off. We will have a soft launch to our friends and collaborators this month (August) and will run a pilot for three to six months.
While I have self-funded the development until this point, the work [...]

Disturbing and Amazing

Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 15:53 | Category : Uncategorized
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I received an IM today from a good friend in Africa. Amazing and delightful to have this communication open. How incredibly stunning to me that we can instant message across the world, especially into places in Africa. Like Chad. What is deeply disturbing and also amazing is that he was IM-ing me as he was [...]

OYA at Burning Man

Tuesday, 24 July 2007, 12:44 | Category : Uncategorized
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