Diario elettrico

You are invi­ted to a vir­tual book launch party! Join Alli­son Fine and me on June 21st at 1–2 PM PST/4–5 PM EST for the launch of  The Net­wor­ked Non­pro­fit publi­shed by Jossey-Bass. If we get a pre-order for 100 or more copies of the book, we’ll jump in the pool (with our clo­ths on… (con­ti­nua…)

One of the big the­mes in our book, The Net­wor­ked Non­pro­fit, is the impor­tance of expe­ri­ments and not to frame them as suc­cess or fai­lure but as lear­ning.   Please join me on June 21st from 1–2 PM PST for the vir­tual launch of The Net­wor­ked Non­pro­fit where Alli­son Fine and I will talk about social… (con­ti­nua…)

Sli­de­share View more pre­sen­ta­tions from Beth Kan­ter. Please join me on June 21st from 1–2 PM PST for the vir­tual launch of The Net­wor­ked Non­pro­fit. These are my notes for webi­nar about Non­pro­fits and Sli­de­share, a social site where com­mu­nity mem­bers share pre­sen­ta­tions, docu­ments and pdfs. For a cou­ple of years, I’ve been an avid mem­ber… (con­ti­nua…)

… is pro­ba­bly the oppo­site of, “this might work.” “This bet­ter work,” is the thin­king of safety, of pro­ven, of beyond blame. “This might work,” on the other hand, is the thin­king of art, inno­va­tion and insight. If you spend all day wor­king on stuff that bet­ter work, you back your­self into a cor­ner, because you’ll… (con­ti­nua…)

Who is your mar­ke­ting or your pro­duct or your effort try­ing to please? Every cam­paign that I’ve ever seen fail has fai­led for pre­ci­sely the same rea­son: it plea­ses the wrong per­son. Think about it… it wouldn’t have laun­ched if it hadn’t plea­sed the boss or the client, right? Plea­sing the wrong per­son meant fai­lure.… (con­ti­nua…)

Entre­pre­neu­rial hope is essen­tial. It gets us over the hump and through the dip. There’s a variety of this hope, though, that’s far more dama­ging than hel­p­ful. This is the hope of the magic lot­tery tic­ket. A fled­gling entre­pre­neur ambu­shes a ven­ture capi­ta­list who just appea­red on a panel. “Excuse me,” she says, then laun­ches… (con­ti­nua…)