Archive for non-profit
Women Entrepreneurs in 2010
This coming week I am going to be part of a panel of local women entrepreneurs speaking about Women in Business. (This was organized by Andrea Paquette from the Lexington Community Education program where I regularly teach a class on using social media to market your business.) I have to admit to being torn about [...]
The Carlton Internship Methodology
Over the years I have had dozens of interns, probably hundreds, from colleges all over New England. Sometimes I have had one intern at a time. Other times I have had up to nine interns working for me simultaneously. I’m still in touch with lots of my former interns – some of them, more than [...]
Brogan and Smith Use the Vowel Method
I just finished “Trust Agents” by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith and am happy to see they used the “Vowel Method” of Business Book Writing. Here’s how you write a truly terrific and useful business book using vowels — and based on some of the business books I’ve read, all business book writers should employ [...]
Networking for a Cause
Way back in May, our farthest-flung Mass Innovation Nights (MassInno or #MIN) visitor was from Colorado. The June event? A little closer to home but still a plane ride away, Chicago. Mark J. Carter was in town for a week of networking and tweet-ups and managed to squeeze us into his Wednesday. But let’s talk [...]
WWBGD? (What Would Bill Gates Do?)
The wealthiest people in the U.S. evidently met recently to discuss what they could do to shore up the non-profit world. (If you haven’t heard, with the economy tanking, charitable donations are down.) People like Bill & Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet, Oprah, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Turner and more. As a group, they’ve donated more than [...]