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		<title>Ummm, what did you mean by that?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What’s the big deal about the “meaning” of a product (or a fund-raising proposal)? Roberto Verganti, professor of a leading design school in Milan, Italy says meanings are at the heart of who we are, what we do, and, by extension, what we buy. If we are donors, it is meaning that helps decide what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design &amp; Thinking</title>
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		<title>Spare Time + Social Media = A Brave New World?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social media guru Clay Shirky tells us in his second book – Cognitive Surplus – how and why we should stop being couch potatoes and get involved. “Cognitive surplus” is a fancy name for spare time, the kind of time we have been frittering away glued to the television. Pool that surplus and we have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mwopa.com/blog/2011/11/spare-time-social-media-a-brave-new-world/</link>
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		<title>Retooling Your Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever grumpily contemplated options A and B, and thought “we can do better than this” – be happy! Roger Martin, author of The Opposable Mind, (Harvard Business School Press, Boston 2007) says, yes, you can. It’s all in your brain. You have an opposable mind, just as you have an opposable thumb, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mwopa.com/blog/2011/11/retooling-your-brain/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you communicate to your volunteers/donors via mobile text messaging? ‘Texting’ has been proven an effective means to organize large amounts of people, as seen in the numerous protests, riots and revolutions over the recent months. Do Something, an organization that encourages youth to volunteer in their communities is looking to increase it’s membership by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change by Design – thinking Tim Brown’s way will change you too.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Tim Brown’s book on Change by Design (HarperCollins, NY, 2009) came out it created quite a buzz and not just because it was a different way of looking at design. It was also about thinking. How to think is new? In Brown’s hands it is. This is design thinking – a way to innovate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Daily Deal’ Philanthropy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard of Philanthroper? It’s like a Groupon with non-profits, where everyday a new charity is showcased and users are asked to donate $1 and no more than $10. With the default donation of $1, the people behind Philanthroper hope that users will find it easy giving $1 to another charity the next day, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mwopa.com/blog/2011/10/%e2%80%98daily-deal%e2%80%99-philanthropy-2/</link>
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		<title>Why People Behave The Way They Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the culture. The President was hired but the faculty didn’t like her. She was gone in two years, a victim of the college culture. Now consultants Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright have produced research to show the enormous importance of culture in the workplace. Their book, Tribal Leadership (Collins Business, 2008) identifies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mwopa.com/blog/2011/09/why-people-behave-the-way-they-do/</link>
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		<title>&amp;you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arm your tribes with a digital tool that allows them to share their passions for your cause and your organization. Johnson &#38; Johnson is offering a free widget for individuals and non-profits. The customizable &#38;you widget offers one central location for information on volunteer and job opportunities, events, news, and donation capabilities. Place the widget [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mwopa.com/blog/2011/08/you/</link>
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		<title>Seeing The Same Differently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Tobak writes that innovation is not necessarily about inventing or building something new or different.  Rather, a huge part innovation is seeing an existing model or idea in a different way. Apple CEO Steve Jobs didn’t invent the mp3 player, the portable tablet or the smartphone. He just envisioned these products differently and introduced [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mwopa.com/blog/2011/07/seeing-the-same-differently/</link>
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