Associations Now

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The Google Impact Challenge is awarding funding to local organizations in San Francisco, France, Japan, Australia, Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom. That, of course, is purposeful. Now Google.org is also going local with its initiatives. More than 800 nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area applied.

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Beth Kanter

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

I was delighted to discover Leah Neaderthal, Co-Founder, Lean Impact who has done amazing work applying lean start up principles to all aspects of nonprofits. Her organization is hosting two Lean Impact, one in December in NYC and one in January in San Francisco (I’m a judge for the San Francisco event). No worries!

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This week I was honored to facilitate a mini-workshop, “ The Happy Healthy Woman Leader, at the Women Funded 2019 conference in San Francisco. And, in the course of writing my book, I also know that making personal resilience or self-care into action requires habit change. .

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Associations Now

MAY 17, 2016

” The company’s other pilot program will allow students at nine high schools in the San Francisco Bay area to create short VR movies of their own—with the help of professional filmmakers, of course. The initiative will begin accepting applications from budding filmmakers and nonprofits on May 30.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 18, 2019

Not only are places like Indy exceeding food expectations, they often offer delicious meals that are more affordable than in cities such as San Francisco or New York. Meeting planners who underestimate modern cuisine in non-coastal cities like Indianapolis would be making a mistake. Food is an integral part of a convention or meeting.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

San Francisco State University management professor John Sullivan offers seven tips for making great hires in his latest contribution to the Harvard Business Review. Incline Marketing has a few tips that could persuade you to reverse course or bolster your presence on the social network. Other Good Reads.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This month KD Paine and I will be celebrating the launch of the book with events in Boston, Providence, NYC, Washington, DC, Palo Alto, San Francisco, and online. This is your chance to hear us talk about the ideas in the book, ask questions, share your story, and, of course purchase a copy of the book. Boston/Oct.

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SCD Group

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Massive open online courses, which are free and have attracted hundreds of thousands of learners but offer no degree, already have forced traditional higher education to re-examine how to reach more students at lower cost.

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Association Navigator

JANUARY 19, 2015

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. All of these involve using a computer, but they also require collaboration with other members of the Verto team and of course, our clients.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 11, 2014

” Of course, there will also be plenty of recognition for the successes in cardiovascular innovation. The Week Ahead: December 15-19: As the largest Earth and space science gathering in the world, the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco is inherently bustling.

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Associations Now

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

. “Delivering secure and seamless connectivity is a shared priority across Mint and thousands of our financial institution partners,” Mint spokeswoman Holly Perez said to San Francisco Business Times. Of course, security in the age of hacking is still a concern. Business, Security Concerns High.

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Moving through the Association World

MARCH 15, 2010

Last week I attended my second Game Developer Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Center. Of course the economy is the major factor there, but the conference seemed to have a much lower attendance than in years past. While I had a great time at San Francisco I am happy to get back home.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 12, 2015

And a big reason for that—beyond, of course, the improving legal status of marijuana—is the infusion of fresh capital into the industry, thanks to a guy who was once portrayed in the Oscar-winning film The Social Network. For the legal weed industry, the roots of financial growth and stability may be taking hold. A Pot Startup in Action.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 7, 2014

American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition is set to begin in San Francisco, and to make the vast number of events, workshops, and locations more digestible for attendees, organizers are sending Prof. Down the Line.

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Off Stage

JULY 14, 2013

But there''s another lesson to be learned from the airline industry in these last two weeks: let''s turn to the San Francisco crash of Asiana Flight 214. As frequent travelers, association execs fully understand what lasting damage poorly conceived customer service can do. in one day). The world found this behavior. unacceptable.

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Beth Kanter

JUNE 18, 2014

I’m facilitating and presenting on a panel session at the Opera America National Conference taking place in San Francisco this week with Guillaume DeCugis, CEO of Scoop.It and Sean Waugh, San Francisco Opera. We will, of course, share the tools in the context of best practices.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 19, 2012

That was the first line in my notebook from the MIX Mashup event I attended in San Francisco a month ago. There were still computer workstations, of course, but fewer of them. We Are Not Angry Enough (MIX Mashup Notes). Posted July 19, 2012. in Change , Humanize - 4 comments. We’re not angry enough. Website. {

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2017

Our book tour starts at the end of January, so if you are in San Francisco, Oakland, Boston, NYC, or Washington, DC, please join us. I also continued my position as Adjunct Professor teaching a graduate course at Middlebury College/Monterrey Institute for International Education.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Dollar a Day was built by a mostly volunteer team collaborating over the course of a year (usually one night a week). Chen appears to be using “lean start up” principles with this (MVP). It will be interesting to see if it and how catches on and of course what they learn from the launch and how they pivot. this month.

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Beth Kanter

MARCH 2, 2015

That’s where I met Kim Kastorff who is the founder of Kimpacto , a San Francisco-based advisory & consulting firm working across the U.S., Acumen Fund has some free courses. Of course, greater dollars will help expand your mission’s depth and scale. Europe and Latin America. Set Program Goals & Metrics.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 13, 2016

Last month, Knowledge@Wharton shared GameStop’s story after Eric Oria, senior director of marketing strategy at GameStop, spoke at the second annual Customer Centricty Summit in San Francisco. GameStop launched PowerUp in 2010. Before that, its predecessor loyalty program, even with 1.9

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Reid All About it

JUNE 5, 2020

Will they have online courses instead? Associations’ role in the COVID-19 gap year. High school graduates and college students still don’t know what they’ll be doing in the fall. Will their campus be open? What other options do they have? Ah, that’s where your association can step in, says WBT Systems.

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Beth Kanter

JULY 23, 2014

NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. Of course that particular question will change, morph, and multiply based on the earlier session, but it will provide a rich framework for generating many useful and practical ideas. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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Slice-Works

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A San Francisco Startup two-years in the making, Meerkat hit the streets of Austin, TX at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March 2015. Stay tuned for Part II where I will list 10 Tips for Associations to Leverage Live Streaming Apps to help answer questions 2 and 3. The core of Meerkat’s brand is their community.

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Slice-Works

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A San Francisco Startup two-years in the making, Meerkat hit the streets of Austin, TX at South by Southwest (SXSW) in March 2015. Stay tuned for Part II where I will list 10 Tips for Associations to Leverage Live Streaming Apps to help answer questions 2 and 3. The core of Meerkat’s brand is their community.

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ChatterBachs

MAY 21, 2012

The local museum is not looked down on because they had to borrow from a museum in Philadelphia or Chicago or San Francisco. And, of course, I wouldn’t have gotten to this without reading Dave Lutz’s blog post on Creating Planned Serendipity For Your Conference Success. Rather the perception is favorable.

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Beth Kanter

JANUARY 4, 2016

In the US, I gave workshops at nonprofit conferences in Iowa, San Antonio, Iowa, Tahoe, Palm Beach, Miami, and San Francisco on networked leadership skills. I was honored to lead a featured season at the United Way Leadership Conference on Networked Leadership and teach many workshops networked leadership skills.

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Reid All About it

JULY 8, 2022

We saw nearly 2,000 registrants for WEC 2022 in San Francisco in-person and online. A course to help develop practical creative and copywriting skills, professional critique techniques, and balanced brand stewardship. More info/register. Host: Fridays@4. Mon 7/11 at 1 p.m. – 30-Minute Monday | WEC: What We Did & Learned.

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Beth Kanter

AUGUST 26, 2014

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus challenged other Gay Choruses around the country!

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Off Stage

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Know what your members will spend in Washington, DC or San Francisco or Orlando. And of course the list of meetings and educational events goes on and on. As I said earlier, when you budget do so with care. Let THEM know how you calculated their budget allotment, and that you expect them to live within their means.

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

That doesn't mean just conferences - in fact some of the biggest gaps between average and best-in-class communities include the percentage offering coaching, online courses and memberships in professional development networks. Invest in training.

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Associations Now

MARCH 13, 2019

About that physicist: Larry Shaw, who worked at the San Francisco Exploratorium, a nonprofit science museum, came up with the idea in 1988 , inspired by the fact that the date matched the first three digits of Pi, 3.14, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

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Beth Kanter

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs.

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Higher Logic

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Nope, this all began (on a much smaller scale) back in 1986 when friends Larry Harvey and Jerry James built an 8-foot tall human effigy and burned it on Baker Beach in San Francisco (population: 35). Of course not, but the vast majority do. A new trend? Does every single attendee do this? Watch what happens.

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Associations Now

MARCH 3, 2014

Earlier this month more than 150 organizations gathered in San Francisco to go hunting for board members. The speed-dating concept isn’t directly transferable to the association space, of course. A recent event offers a lesson in the virtues of actively expanding your volunteer pool.

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Beth Kanter

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Note from Beth: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 11th. Of course you should experiment with your own unique base and see what works, plus bear in mind what time zone(s) they’re in and try out weekends. 1- Timing is Everything. 2- Ask Questions.

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Beth Kanter

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Note From Beth: Next month I’m lucky enough to be doing the keynote at Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in San Francisco to share some ideas from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit book award. Flickr Photo: Mr. T in DC. 5:30pm— on the bus ride home.

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