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I'm off to the Simmons Leadership Conference tomorrow, and I'm excited to meet some of the faculty in the Simmons MBA program, which hosts this annual conference. I'm particularly hoping that new faculty member Jill Avery will be around, since her teaching and research interests sound eerily similar to mine.

I'm brushing up my quantitative skills in preparation for my first semester of MBA classes this fall, and it's led me to one of the best and most encouraging AHA! moments I've had in a very long time.

Nonprofit blogger and Twitter friend Social Butterfly was kind enough to do a quick profile of me on her blog, fly4change, after Beth Kanter nominated me after her profile. Fun!

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More organizations are making the move into social media, either by starting a CEO blog, a customer Facebook group, or just by allowing employees to blog openly about their work lives.

What good is Twitter? What's the practical use of it?

Have you tried making the case for your nonprofit to start blogging, or get into social networks, or in some other way try something bolder than Ye Olde Corporate Website as a means of engaging your community online... only to be rebuffed by the mentality that "our constituents aren't online" or "our members don't read blogs" or something of the sort?

(hold your horses)

Google has turned the lights out today, and asks you to do the same.

Free, open-source course management system Moodle is getting attention, as well it should if it's what it seems to be: cost-effective (nothing is ever really free, your time and your staff's time is worth money), reliable (the site boasts 300,000 registered users and over 40,000 registered courses, with an impressive growth curve), and built for serious online learning (they talk a lot about sound pedagogical principles, if you're into that sort of thing).