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What Are Your Talents?

Posted by on June 8, 2011 at 9:42 am

I am doing some work helping a local nonprofit organization transform their culture.  One of the development tools I am using with them is based on one of my favorite management books First, Break All the Rules, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.  I so appreciate that the messages they deliver are not just based [...]

Good Technology Reading

Posted by on March 2, 2011 at 6:29 pm

I subscribe to Idealware and I got an excellent email from them that was full of useful links.  So I am copying it here for you with the understanding that all credit for this goes to Idealware.     Best of the Web:  February 2011 The Idealware Best of the Web brings you great resources [...]

Crowdrise – The Next Big Thing?

Posted by on January 14, 2011 at 10:17 am

Is Crowdrise the next big thing in Philanthropy?  Ed Norton thinks so.  I am a big fan of Ed’s.  I not only love his movies, but I also love that he “gets it” when it comes to activism and philanthropy.  It officially launched in May of 2010. I know what you are thinking – “Beth [...]

Do You Know Jumo?

Posted by on December 6, 2010 at 2:57 pm

 The latest talk in nonprofit technology is Jumo.  What is Jumo?  Here is a snippet from their website:   Based on what I have read about Jumo and after  setting up my own account, I must say, I am not impressed.  I really don’t see the functionality or the point.  The best overview of it [...]

Back from the East

Posted by on November 8, 2010 at 2:33 pm

Sorry for my lack of blog postings last week.  I was in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania house and kid-sitting for my brother and sister-in-law.  They live in a very small town, and they have no family nearby.  They each had professional conferences out of town and they needed me to, and I quote my brother here, “provide [...]