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We could think of no better topic to head into the holidays than “The Fun Theory!” Inspired by the video at the end of this post (and the wonderful other videos sponsored by Volkswagen here), we were approached by our guest co-moderator for this week’s chat, Kristen Parrinello, who suggested the topic. Thanks, Kristen (aka [...]

If you think the topic of pricing is sticky for consultants in general, try being a consultant to Community Benefit Organizations! In the business world, clients might ask you to reduce your fee, but would they even consider asking you to do the work for free?  And yet Community Benefit Consultants face that situation all [...]

Research by Dr. Barry Schwartz (as he described at TED here) has shown that neither rules nor incentives are as powerful in motivating us to be our very best as is the desire to be virtuous, to do what is right by other people. Dr. Schwartz talks about this as the practical wisdom each of [...]

As we all know, it is not always easy to track and keep up with a Twitter conversation. And when a chat is as lively as our last one was, look out! That is why we feel so blessed to have Megan McFadden from Everywun who volunteered once again to sort through all those tweets [...]

One of the most interesting conversations we continually face is the question of competition vs. collaboration.  We hear drumbeats for organizations to cooperate, collaborate.  And then we hear drumbeats, just as loud, that suggest “competition is a source of innovation.” A conversation at Social Edge has been going on for over a month on this [...]

Our first chat for consultants to community benefit organizations provided for some  great and thought provoking conversation. Below is a summary of the questions and the comments/answers from our Chat on the 21st.   (You can see the whole chat in its raw-and-unedited entirety here.) Many thanks to Megan McFadden(@Everywun) for compiling this summary. Twitter chats [...]