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Free 60 Page Training Catalog Now Available

Things have been quiet here for some reasons I'll tell you about soon. In the mean time, I want to share with you a publication that I think has been long overdue: The Gilbert Center Winter 2009 Training Catalog: In-House, Online, Pre-Packaged, and Custom (64 page PDF). In one place, you can (1) look up our seminars by your topics of interest, (2) evaluate more comprehensive training packages, and (3) consider our entire training offerings at once. As you consider the increasing need for affordable capacity building in 2009, I encourage you to download and circulate this catalog among your colleagues. Posted: 12/24/08; 1:29:02 PM #

Money on the Table Seminar Now Available On Demand

We didn't want to wait until next week, in the middle of the Winter Holidays, to announce this workshop, seeing as how we're all facing some challenging financial conditions in the months (and possibly years) ahead. So, we've just added the following seminar to our On Demand Catalog: Money on the Table: The Financial Opportunity of Converting Your Stakeholders to Email. Everything in our On Demand Catalog can be set up to accommodate your schedule and includes a private telephone consultation with the instructor, to answer questions and address issues that are specific to your circumstances. Posted: 12/17/08; 5:44:28 PM #

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
	The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948. Do we have to go through something like the hell which preceded that moment in order to find the collective will to implement it? Posted: 12/10/08; 7:37:18 PM #

Building Your Online List - Seminar Now Available On-Demand

List building is a key element of our online communication workflow. Without permission to correspond, there is nothing else we can do - no cultivation, no stewardship, no organizing. That's why we felt our on-demand seminar catalog would be incomplete without this latest addition: Building Your Online List: A High Integrity Model for Reaching Large Numbers on the Internet. Posted: 12/9/08; 12:32:28 PM #

What's Wrong with Online Seminars: Three Small Problems and One Big One
	In a couple of days, I'm teaching a workshop on Delivering Online Seminars. My focus in that workshop is less on content and more on sustainable infrastructure, but in writing my latest article I decided to check on my gut feelings about online seminars in general. What's Wrong with Online Seminars: Three Small Problems and One Big One is what I found. Posted: 12/8/08; 6:36:06 PM #

Who Do You Trust?
	Trust is a fundamental theme in civil society and a bedrock of the social capital we depend upon to raise money and organize people. The current issue of Greater Good Magazine examines the issue of trust from numerous angles, including the role of truth, building and regaining trust, betrayal, first impressions, and the political role of trust. Posted: 12/7/08; 10:09:43 PM #

Real Advice Hurts

Readers of Nonprofit Online News and anyone who has ever taken a seminar of mine will know that I believe the term "strategy" is often misused in the field of nonprofit training. The word is one of the many victims of our desire for quick fixes. You see this in conference workshops, online seminars, articles, and weblogs. In Real Advice Hurts, Merlin Mann takes on this issue from the perspective of blogging and issues a challenge to seek and accept real advice. Posted: 12/7/08; 9:59:05 PM #