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Purchase an Introductory Consulting Session at a Steep Discount (Week 2)

We're in our second week of offering our introductory consulting sessions at a very steep discount. It's 60% off this week, and the price will climb slowly back up to normal over the next few weeks. In other words, if you think you (and your team) could benefit from a very disciplined 30 minute conference call with me (Michael Gilbert), you can now do that for $50. Follow the link for more detail! Posted: 9/21/09; 5:43:51 PM #

OneWebDay

Tomorrow is OneWebDay, the Internet's equivalent of Earth Day. It's a broad ranging, world-wide set of activities designed to assert public, grassroots leadership over the increasingly dominant infrastructure of civil society - computer mediated communication. This is a particularly interesting year to participation in OneWebDay, since it was founded by Susan Crawford, who is now President Barack Obama's technology advisor. Posted: 9/21/09; 5:25:14 PM #

Why Seth Godin Is Wrong (About the Nonprofit Sector)

I'm so pleased to see Tom Watson taking on Seth Godin's recent claim that nonprofits are afraid of change. I find the "afraid of change" accusation annoying and shallow at the best of times and when an entire sector is described this way, it gets under my skin. Are there conservative dynamics in the sector? Absolutely. Is there less innovation than in other sectors? Controlling for size, age of organization, and other factors, I rather doubt it. Plus, to describe it as resistance to change paints it with an obscuring coat of irrationality that's impenetrable to useful analysis. A fundamental change management principle is to respect and understand the dynamic forces involved and Godin, whose ideas I often respect, does the opposite here. Thank you to Tom Watson for pointing this out. Posted: 9/21/09; 5:22:30 PM #

Toolkit on Disseminating Research Online
	The Global Development Network has published a Toolkit on Disseminating Research Online that I recommend to anyone who is planning a research project or has findings to share. The annotated resources are full of practical suggestions, analysis of different approaches, and research into different strategies and tactics. Posted: 9/21/09; 5:17:54 PM #