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Hyping Flickr

At the NVHA Social Media conference a couple of weeks ago some speakers recommended using Flickr (just acquired by Yahoo!). I thought, "What’s the big deal with photo sites?" When I started doing phone-cam pics, however, I started a "photo steam" at Flickr to keep my impulsive pics off of FISpace. But now I’m beginning to "get" what Flickr is ...

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Planned giving articles

Philanthropy Journal has a special report devoted to planned giving.  It seems to have a lot of good information. Still…I just don’t get planned giving. I guess it’s my own limited view of the world. I have the feeling it’s all about people who are in a whole different income class from me and anybody I know.

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Power Play

See Lisa Brown’s informative report on Edelman Interactive seminar.

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Patient Advocacy

Today I attended a meeting of the BayBio Patient Advocacy Committee. BayBio is a SF Bay Area life science industry trade group. I sit on their patient advocacy committee, and we’re working to bring "patient advocacy groups," as the ACS and other disease NPOs are known, together with biotech companies. We’re looking for a common ground where the missions of ...

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