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Theorizing the Web 2017 - Redstone Theater on Livestream - 0 views

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    41 minutes into the panel--they talk about Facebook algorithm and lack of privacy
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The leadership lessons in Sheryl Sandberg's and Adam Grant's new book about resilience ... - 0 views

  • What you want to do is debrief failures openly. That’s really critical to resilience, because otherwise when people fail they’re totally unprepared for it.
  • It's much more helpful to say I understand you’re probably in a lot of pain right now, and I want you to know I’m here with you. Just the acknowledgment and conveying you want to support them is much more helpful.
  • One of the things that affected me most, actually, was watching Sheryl commit to finding joy.
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  • But the joy you feel has a huge impact on the people around you. I've spent a lot of time thinking since [Sandberg and I] talked about that. Joy is not just a contributor to happiness. It really is a source of strength. When we have more joy in our lives, it’s part of what makes life worth living.
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    interview with Grant and Sandberg about new book includes the three Ps--personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence--for making negative emotions worse in the workplace. Better to acknowledge reactions to failure or loss as normal
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On Campus, Embracing Feminism and Facing the Future - The New York Times - 0 views

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    by Eilene Zimmerman, April 2, 2017, on what college women are concerned with: discrimination, safety, unequal pay, equal opportunity, immigration
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No Room for Dissent in Women's Movement Today - The New York Times - 0 views

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    article by Cleta Mitchell, April 2, 2017, on how feminism limits women's views.
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Key Moments Since 1992, 'The Year of the Woman' - The New York Times - 0 views

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    25 year history of women since 1992
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"With every action a character takes, it has an echo" - Mary Review - 0 views

  • Junot Díaz’s Drown and Edwidge Danticat’s Krik? Krak!—both of those collections, from the late ’90s—and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” which I still think is one of the most perfect short stories ever written.
  • Zora Neale Hurston and Mules and Men. In that book, she writes, “Mouths don’t empty themselves unless the ears are sympathetic and knowing.”
  • And this tends to turn into the idea that writers of color are in some sort of “identity corner,” whereas white writers just get to write about life. I will never forget one night in workshop when the professor asked our brilliant mutual friend Brit Bennett to explain what her story had to say about the black experience. Like her story had to be some after-school special, either harrowing or uplifting, just because her characters were black.
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  • In general, there’s a hesitancy to use “black” as a descriptor, which either points to a widespread anxiety about race or a subconscious belief that the descriptor “black” is pejorative. Or, maybe a third option—which is that you can’t say “black” at the beginning without the average white person tuning out immediately. I hope that’s not true; it might be.
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    Interview with Angela Flournoy where she recommends three short stories as the best she has ever read by Junot Diaz (Drown), Edwidge Danticant (Krik? Krak!) and James Baldwin's (Sonny's Blues).
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These Women's Magazines Aren't Just for Women - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Discusses new women's magazines including Mary Review, Hannah, The Gentlewoman, Gravitas (Sarasota), and The Riveter
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I'm Not Texting. I'm Taking Notes. - The New York Times - 0 views

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    Preoccupations by Jonah Stillman on millennials using smartphones to take notes during corporate meetings and how a senior staff person first chastised him (privately) but after being informed that he was using the phone to take notes, the senior staff/mentor encouraged participants to ask for notes from earlier presentations from the young man.
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The New Way to Recruit Skilled Volunteers on VolunteerMatch | Engaging Volunteers - 0 views

  • Corporations are interested in making skilled volunteering a larger piece of their community involvement activities, and companies like Microsoft, HP, American Express and The Gap are publically and actively building more skills-based and pro bono volunteering programs.
  • The skilled volunteering movement is also growing among individuals – organizations like Taproot Foundation and Catchafire have joined VolunteerMatch to connect skilled volunteers directly with nonprofit projects, and they are growing by leaps and bounds.
  • standardized taxonomy of skills that volunteers possess and that nonprofits search for.
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  • The result of the process was 19 over-arching categories of skills, and between 3 and 11 sub-categories under each one.
  • Here are the 19 main categories:
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Share Your Skills | Taproot - 0 views

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    Taproots sponsors three kinds of events for pro bono volunteers--pro bono marathon, ScopeAthon, speed consulting
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Taproot+ - 0 views

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    Taproot advertises and connects skilled volunteers with projects onsite and virtually. They provide timeline and scoping assistance for longer-term projects. They have projects done-in-a-day, 4-6 week period, and 6-9 months-in-length projects.
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10 Best Sites That Offer Free Images for Blogs - 0 views

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    Pixabay is the first one!
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How to Write an Executive Summary to Get Your Ideas Heard - 0 views

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    good example of executive summary at Lifehack
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Six ways to crush solopreneur burn out for good - 0 views

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    very good article by Grace Chan at freelancers Union, April 10, 2017
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Tech Platforms for Volunteering - Taproot Foundation, LinkedIn4Good, VolunteerMatch - Y... - 0 views

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    recording of tech platforms for volunteering--NTEN sponsored in San Francisco,
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Online Communities Depend on Online Volunteers - NTEN - 0 views

  • “online communities” – the thousands of discussion forums allowing like-minded people to find one another, keep in touch, and share information. Most often these online communities are started by one or two highly motivated and unpaid individuals (aided by the amazing availability of free platforms to host such groups), and participation by all subscribers is intentional and voluntary. They operate on the principle of exchange, since if everyone lurks and never posts, no helpful ideas can emerge.
  • I asked them about how they worked with online volunteers and at first they said they didn’t have any.  Naturally, I soon changed their perception. In fact, NTEN depends on the freely donated time and skills of its involved members.
  • Why is it important to recognize this quasi-invisible workforce? Because seeing and valuing the volunteer nature of this service will let you appreciate and strengthen it. Further, it’s possible to apply the principles of volunteer management to make such volunteer participation easier and more productive. For example:
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  • Recruit More Volunteers
  • Give Volunteers the Information and Tools They Need
  • Monitor Work
  • Say Thanks Often and Sincerely
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    article by Susan Ellis on virtual volunteering, 2014. Emphasizes that nonprofits do not recognize that they have virtual volunteers writing blog posts, maintaining websites, and doing many other tasks at a distance.
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Trends Over Time in Virtual Volunteering - NTEN - 0 views

  • Today’s ability to oh-so-easily see and hear each other online is a double-edged sword: it can make electronic communication more personable, but it can also inject offline prejudices evoked by how someone looks or sounds.
  • Now, a lot of online communication is done synchronously, or nearly so: volunteers are online together, at the same time, talking together, and staff supporting those volunteers is often seeing their volunteering activities in real time.
  • People do not communicate primarily via e-mail anymore; they now talk together via online social networks and in the comments section of blogs, photo-sharing sites, and video-sharing sites. Some people send far more SMS messages than email messages.
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  • they can and do engage in service just about anywhere, not only with a laptop, but with a tablet or smart phone.
  • The most welcomed change in the last few years is that using the Internet to communicate with, engage, and support volunteers has been adopted in one way or another by a majority of nonprofit organizations in the USA. What hasn’t changed is that there are still thousands of organizations resisting any use of the Internet to support and involve volunteers, with thousands of other organizations involving online volunteers while still not understand that the involvement; I volunteered mostly online for a regional office of the Girl Scouts of the USA in 2010 and 2011, yet I would bet that office would say “no” to the question, “Do you engage in virtual volunteering?”
  • the elements for success in virtual volunteering are still largely the same as they have been for the last 20 years. What hasn’t changed? The importance of creating volunteering tasks that have real impact, of frequent communications with volunteers, of showing volunteers what impact their contributions have had, and of showing senior management at an organization what impact virtual volunteering is having. I’m relatively sure these recommendations will never change, even as technology does.
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    article by Jayne Cravens, February 20, 2015 on virtual volunteering moving from asynchronous to synchronous interactions, virtual identities including pictures, lack of recognition by some nonprofits of how they are using virtual volunteers.
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CONTENT CURATION AND CRAP DETECTION ~ Learnnovators - 0 views

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    great post by Srividya Kumar on content curation and crap detection
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Applying the 6 Key Principles of Adult Learning to Yourself - 0 views

  • 1. Embrace “Why?”
  • 2. Be the captain of your own ship Knowles and his collaborators wrote that, “Adults have a sel
  • 3. Get into the arena
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  • 4. Connect to who – and where – you are
  • 5. Value learning, not information
  • 6. Seek meaning, not money
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    Jeff Cobb on Knowles' six adult learning principles
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