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Put Members in the Spotlight as Meeting Storytellers

Associations Now

When members gather at conferences, you have a big opportunity to collect their stories to showcase the people who make up your community. Face-to-face communication has grown scarcer in this digital age, when emails, texts, and social media posts often replace direct, two-way conversation.

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The Year Without Pants and How to Replace Email

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The story of WordPress is interesting and Berkun has some profound yet simple observations about people and how we communicate at work. The Year Without Pants is about the team that is maintaining and continuously improving the WordPress software, while rarely working in their offices in San Francisco.

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EFF Scores Major Procedural Victory in Long-Running NSA Case

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just scored a big victory in its ongoing fight against the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass-surveillance program, and it’s a good reminder that EFF was on the case long before anyone even knew who Edward Snowden was.

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Monday Buzz: Google Glass, Giving Back

Associations Now

Classroom Champions : This mentor-focused nonprofit will use its Glass and grant to allow Paralympic competitors to document their training and events for use in the organization’s materials for students in high-need schools. Tweet of the Day. 7 things you can do to boost email results this week (by @Real Magnet) #assnchat [link].

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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth Kanter

Document Your Results: One excellent way to document your results is to write a quick report – a couple of paragraphs discussing your hypothesis, how you did your test, and the final results. Being sensitive to your stakeholder’s mindset is crucial for successful communication, as is being clear about what you convey.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth Kanter

Our scope and sequence documents lay out the appropriate learning objectives and associated lesson plans, activities, videos, and more to teach skills that are developmentally appropriate. She lives in San Francisco and spends way too much time on Pinterest. Shameless plug alert!] Check it out, and let us know what you think !

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth Kanter

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.