Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Do we really want to create a worse digital divide?

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This week, Thomas Friedman authored a column in the New Your Times Opinion Pages that seems to call for institutionalizing a digital divide:...
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

One of the best on-line donation promotions I've seen

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In Minnesota we have something every November called Give-to-the-Max day.  ( Here is a link to Give-to-the-Max-Day ).  (I think there are a ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The best "your order has been shipped" email EVER

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Humor works!!! Below is the email I just received regarding two CDs I ordered on Sunday. (yes, I still get CDs--don't trust that new-fa...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Avoiding the database project from hell

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I'm facilitating a session at the 2011 Minnesota Nonprofit Technology and Communications Conference titled " Avoiding the database...

My comments to a Net Neutrality hearing for the FCC

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Late last summer I presented testimony below at a meeting on the Future of the Internet. It is still relevant. The meeting included two FC...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

More VOTE FOR ME campaings

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I really like when companies decide to make donations to nonprofit organizations in their communities. That happens a lot, especially in t...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

What are they thinking? (Foundation category)

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I just got an email about a grant being made available to a small group of organizations. It requires: Partnering with at least one other no...
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Thursday, July 15, 2010

This Land is Your Land

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While camping on the North Shore of Lake Superior this week, we went for a hike down Beaver River. Walking down the river to the shore of L...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The power of a radical thought: How for-profit businesses can learn from nonprofits

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A couple of weeks ago I got an advanced copy of a new management book to review. This is kind of surprising because I haven’t read any manag...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Followers are Important

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Nancy Lublin has another great column in Fast Company: "Let's Hear If for the Little Guys" She notes that we are obsessed with...

Curmudgeonly view of vote-for-me contests

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Beth Kanter has a whole series of posts on Beth's Blog about vote-for-me funding contests ( http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2010/03/a...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010

When should it be a for-profit; When should it be a nonprofit

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This is a little dangerous. I'm going to recommend a specific podcast I just heard--not dangerous. Dangerous is recommending the whole s...