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		<title>ALB to DSM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 18 years living and working in and around New York&#8217;s capital city, I will be moving to Iowa&#8217;s capital in November 2011 for family reasons. It&#8217;s been a good run in Albany, with loads of valuable and interesting salaried and freelance experiences, and I look forward to deploying the skills acquired here and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=6266&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community vs Communication</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through more than two decades of travels about the series of tubes that comprise the online world, I&#8217;ve often found myself pondering the nature of community, as that word is applied to groups that form and function in virtual spaces. I&#8217;ve watched the word &#8220;community&#8221;  being ever-more widely and casually used over the years to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=6238&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Nonprofit Mergers and Acquisitions: A Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Merger-mania” has come to be a prominent defining characteristic of the nonprofit sector in the first decade of the 21st Century, as a growing level of organizational consolidation provides strong evidence that a wide-spread restructuring of the sector is underway. The article linked below provides an executive overview of contemporary literature on nonprofit mergers, with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=6103&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Organization Development: A Primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wendell L. French and Cecil H. Bell, Jr. once defined Organization Development (OD) as “a long-term effort, led and supported by top management, to improve an organization’s visioning, empowerment, learning and problem-solving processes, through an ongoing, collaborative, management of organizational culture — with special emphasis on the culture of intact work teams and other team [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=6208&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Success, And Who Defines It</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jericsmith.com/?p=6029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, one of the boys in our pack decided that he didn&#8217;t like his gender-neutral first name anymore, and would prefer to be addressed by a more masculine nickname. A neighborhood kid meeting was called, we were all informed of his decision, and directed to address him only as &#8220;Rock&#8221; from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=6029&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Common Misconceptions About Nonprofits</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the majority of my professional career in the nonprofit sector, doing work that I have found intellectually and morally rewarding. All of my nonprofit jobs have involved some mix of communications, marketing, public relations or fundraising work, so I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about the things that we do, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=5960&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction to Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Corporations</title>
		<link>http://jericsmith.com/2011/07/06/introduction-to-strategic-planning-for-nonprofit-corporations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strategic planning may be broadly viewed as an iterative, two-part undertaking. In the first part of the process, an organization defines a vision for the future that is consonant with its mission. In the second part of the process, the organization then allocates financial, capital and human resources toward achieving this vision. The two parts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=5981&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be an Expert</title>
		<link>http://jericsmith.com/2011/07/02/be-an-expert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days into my first post-college, big-boy job with the Federal government, my boss offered me one of the most profound bits of professional advice I have ever received. &#8220;If you want to succeed here, or in any other job,&#8221; he said, &#8220;then you have to become an expert.&#8221; I asked the obvious question: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=4074&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where The Air Is Sweet? Valuing American Public Broadcasting</title>
		<link>http://jericsmith.com/2011/06/24/where-the-air-is-sweet-valuing-american-public-broadcasting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a feature-length piece derived from the research I conducted while earning my Masters of Public Affairs and Policy. While I love the concept of public broadcasting, I think its modern incarnations in the United States are not necessarily true to the vision of the idiom&#8217;s founders . . . and not for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=6008&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do The Research</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. Eric Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two recent online conversations, I have had people make absolute, declamatory statements contrary to my own beliefs, and then inform me that their positions were not arguable, because they had &#8220;done the research.&#8221; If I didn&#8217;t agree, then all I needed to do was &#8220;do the research,&#8221; and then I would have no choice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jericsmith.com&amp;blog=8933848&amp;post=1996&amp;subd=jericwrites&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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