The Amazing Spiderman
May 7th, 2012 Mobility does not equal freedom
May 7th, 2012 I was headed on an epic trip. I was, really. I have driven cross-country more times than I can count, and it is an activity I have much enjoyed in my life,
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Going cross-country again
May 7th, 2012 I’m leaving on Wed. for what I am calling my Epic Cross Country Trip. (Maybe it should be Epic Cross Country Trip, 2012, since it’s far, far from the first one I’ve done. I’ve now lost count.) Here’s my basic itinerary, for the curious:
Miracle Hot Springs
Death Valley National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Sedona, AZ
Roswell, NM
New York, NY (family)
Western Mass (friends)
Northern Vermont (friends)
Madison, WI (Wiscon)
Home
The first leg of thetrip I’m taking with Ruth. I’ve never
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Earliest donor wall in history?
May 7th, 2012 So I was in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and I end up looking at this fairly nondescript statuary. What was the significance of this?
The museum had a placard next to it (which I will reprint in its entirety):
Five years from the start of work on Twitter…
May 7th, 2012 Tonight, I got to listen to a marketing class over at St. John’s college over in Queens, New York discuss the use of social media and how it would apply to Autism Speaks (I work there now as their Web architect). They were just as immersed in it as much as anyone else and they were all so very young (at least to this 41 year old). It’s amazing to me how quickly popular culture
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Are You Being Left Behind as Technology Ushers In a Whole New Approach to Philanthropy? #CoFLA
May 7th, 2012 Note From Beth: Just before I left for Rwanda, I caught some interesting discussion threads about organizational adoption of networked ways of working on Twitter coming from the #COFLA hashtag as a result of the Council on Foundations gathering in Los Angeles. I discovered that it was Larry Eason from DotOrgPower and his colleague, Shelley Wenk, offered to write this summary of the discussion as a guest post.
When I landed, I was
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Attention Data Nerds: Nonprofits Miss Out on the Power of LinkedIn: Learn How to Tap It
May 7th, 2012 Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda. Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations. If you’re motivated to go deeper on LinkedIn after reading this summary, you will want to check
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