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Book: The Network Weaver Handbook

Beth Kanter

My friend and colleague, June Holley , has written a much anticipated book, The Network Weaver Handbook. If you are interested in building networks or working as Networked Nonprofit, you need this book right now! To me, this creates the perfect book to help guide your practice of building and working within a network.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth Kanter

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

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Feeling stuck? Moving on is actually quite simple

Association Success

He reflected how encumbered everything had become as his small executive team created policies, procedures and a thick employee handbook. In the book, we also learned about Gall’s Law. This time, Rod pulled out one page with one sentence on it, proudly explaining, “This is my new employee handbook. And he succeeded.

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How to Keep Your Event Speakers Happy

Expo Logic

How to Find Your Next Event Speaker. Many speakers would love the opportunity to speak at an event for exposure, to market a new book or simply because their beliefs align with the event's goals. Before the event, compile a handbook of important information to give to your speaker. Before the Event. Confirm All Details.

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Book Review: Connecting to Change the World

Beth Kanter

Almost tend years ago, they co-wrote “Net Gains,” one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, the handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network. Network Types.

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5 Book Recommendations for Nonprofit Networking and Data Nerds

Beth Kanter

But it is also a quiet time of year and a good time to catch up on reading. Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement.

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Thursday Buzz: The Longest (and Best) Content Marketing Post Ever

Associations Now

A book was practically copied and pasted into a blog post for all to use as a resource on content marketing. It’s not a physical book, but at 30,000 words this blog post may as well be one. But why publish a blog post for free rather than sell this as a book? Plus: Meeting mistakes you might be making. wm7ZK3Yv83. Take a look.

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