Link Roundup 11/29

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Blog Post > Model the Collaboration You Hope to See Niki Jagpal - November 22, 2013 Author Biography Niki Jagpal is research and policy director at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP). She is the co-author of "Smashing Silos in Philanthropy: Multi-Issue Advocacy and Organizing for Real Results."

Author and marketer Lynn Serafinn shares her 12-step template for turning info articles into rich content for your readers and effective marketing tools for you. As a marketing consultant, I work with non-fiction authors and social entrepreneurs .

Dan Morrison talks about the five stages of grief following a failed social enterprise, and how to recover your motivation and start again Guardian Professional, Failure comes with a stigma. When Citizen Effect was failing, I'd enter a room and my ego would notice every person looking at me and I could hear them saying, "That's Dan Morrison, he's the one that founded Citizen Effect...

Pinterest has unveiled a new feature that allows business owners to add more detail to the content they pin to the social-media site. Called " Place Pins," the feature lets users link the images on their boards to a map.

As a fundraiser, you pour your heart and soul into preparing the year-end campaign, but by the time the champagne has popped, the new year is off to the races before you have time to catch your breath. If this sounds all too familiar, you're not alone. We've all been there.

The official website of the 2012 documentary by Noujaim Films, Rafea: Solar Mama

In his book Entrepreneur Magazine's Ultimate Guide to YouTube for Business , marketing and public relations consultant Jason Rich show you how to master the secrets of successful "YouTubers" and put your brand, product or service in front of millions of potential viewers.

Blog Post > Leaders Fight For Clear, Fair Political Activity Rules Barbara Nastasi - November 26, 2013 Imagine there is a law that mandates you cannot drive fast, but the speed limit is not posted: You have been given no definition of what it means to go fast.

How migrant computer literacy education in Watsonville, with UCSC's Global Information Internship Program students, is helping one woman's dream come true!

In your inbound efforts, you obviously want to get across the value prop of your company and make it clear exactly what it is you're selling. However, you also want to build a pretty big social media following and gain some accolades for having quality social channels.

Four ways funders can serve and empower grantees. SSIR x Bridgespan: Giving That Gets Results Giving That Gets Results is an eight-week series of voices from the vanguard of giving. Philanthropists and foundation executives share how they are adapting their strategies, aiming for results, and measuring their impact to learn and improve.

RIGA, Latvia - Sabine Sile was hoping to score a location that would allow her business to operate rent-free. She's the co-founder of Latvia's first charity shop Otra Elpa (in Latvian, meaning "second breath"). Worried she didn't have the aura of a wise person because of her age, she brought along the Canadian ambassador's wife to a breakfast meeting with a property owner.

Patrick Sullivan - November 27, 2013 #GivingTuesday started last year with a modest goal: Get 100 partners. Before the day was through, it had 2,500. "We were really overwhelmed at how this call to generosity resonated so intensely," said Beverly Greenfield, director of public relations for the 92 nd Street Y (92Y) in New York City, where the idea for #GivingTuesday originated in conjunction with the United Nations Foundation.

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You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President's Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule-as is the case with the update you're reading now! Don't get me wrong: I love writing my updates.

Hello and welcome to the Guardian Social Enterprise Network's daily digest. Our space to tell you the latest news, advice and analysis from the sector. * Today on the network, Andrew Bibby discusses whether the Co-op group will retain its core co-operative values following its recent leadership reform.