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Very nice blog by Beth Kanter on how to maintain maximum productivity--oriented to nonprofit leaders but works for everyone I suspect, These skills are: self-management and attention training. - See more at: http://www.bethkanter.org/ultradian_rhythm/#sthash.VhoZ7xoK.dpuf

Incredible post by Beth Kanter on integrating learning into nonprofits' work, January 2, 2014. Very grounded piece that links to excellent resources. References Charles Jennings' framework of adding learning to work, embedding learning in work, and extracting learning from work. Ends with these questions: How does your nonprofit integrate learning into your work? How do you as a nonprofit professional incorporate professional learning into your work? - See more at: http://www.bethkanter.org/learning-at-work/#sthash.CxcnOOYv.dpuf

Attribution policy statement by Beth Kanter

A great blog on content curation from Beth Kanter from October 4, 2011. The focus on this is content curation for non profits, but is really for any content curation. She quotes and paraphrases Harold Jarche in that content curation is really seek, sense, share. Mentions that content curation is a great professional development tool and helps everyone keep up with what is happening in their field.

Graphic depiction of the ALF Leadership process of I/WE/IT from Beth Kanter's blog of 2/18/15

Great post by Beth Kanter on infographs, rationale for using them to array and understand data, how to construct them, and tools that can help simplify the process. Feb. 27. 2013

great blog by Kanter on how Upwell uses social media for experimentation, failure, listening, measurement, 3.26.2013. Good graphics too.

Great blog post by Beth Kanter, 4.4.2013, on how nonprofit CEOs/leaders use social media to connect, engage, inform, learn, etc.

Blog post by Beth Kanter on best kinds of learning at conferences/seminars, 5.23.13 Excerpt: It cites Sharon Bowman's book on Using Brain Science to Make Science Stick. "The book offers several simple principles to incorporate: Movement is better than sitting Having participants talk is better than listening Images are better than words for instructional aids Writing is better than reading Shorter is better than longer Different delivery options are better than the same"

Beth's Blog explains why she uses both pen and paper and digital not taking tools such as Evernote. Beth recommends Alexandra Samuel's e-book ($3.99 on Kindle from Amazon) for how to use Evernote. It has convinced me to make Evernote part of my PKM toolkit. 1/30/13

Blog by Beth on Becoming a Networked Nonprofit: Maturity of Practice Overview 8/31/12

Excellent post by Kanter includes a ten minute video by Manoush Zomorodi on using our time more effectively.

ways to reduce control digital tech use especially mobile phones

Look at the "SOCIAL" acronyms--collaboration shows up in both. Guest blog written by Kriss Deiglmeier, ED of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford, appearing on Beth's Blog on 2/28/12. Believe these help define WL Studio's raison d'etre.

Beth's Blog, June 4, 2012 Excellent ideas on leading a blog carnival to ensure that key blog posts and discussions are viewed by large #s of people. Think this is very relevant to Studio's work.

This blog post by Beth Kanter, January 24, 2013, has lots of considerations for working with nonprofits on social media adoption and use. Good links to other resources, too, including legal counsel-type guidance. Raises several issues for me including blending uses of social media (external, face forward kinds of promotional and educational sharing as well as learning with each other, for example) and legal angles to understand, and guidance for volunteers in addition to staff, especially in professional membership associations where members may do far more sharing than staff. A social media policy for a np--professional membership association--with volunteers in addition to or instead of staff doing most of the representation for the organization would need to be explicated as well. We need to understand this thoroughly as we work with organization

blog post by Beth Kanter on social media guidelines, March 20, 2013, yet another practical body of knowledge to become comfortable with in working with orgs on using social media for learning, promoting, educating, inspiring, etc. excerpt Social Media Guidelines or what some call a social media policy summarizes your organization's social media goals, how staff will participate (dos and do nots), identifies legal and privacy issues, a social media work flow, and staffing needs.

How a nonprofit used the personal Twitter "brands" of its employees to expand its reach with news media and other key audiences.

nice post by Kanter on nonprofit leaders using social media authentically and effectively

Importance of walking meetings by Beth Kanter, May 8, 2015.