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• IMPORTANT: : Help make sure .NGO remains in nonprofit hands

  Written by Maddie / on 11/23/2011 / 0 Comments

  IMPORTANT:

  You may have heard that ICANN, the International body that regulates domain extensions, has approved a plan that would drastically increase the number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) available on the Internet.

  
  The Public Interest Registry (PIR) is the non-profit organization managing ".ORG" – the domain that has served the non-profit community for more than 25 years. PIR is proposing that another domain extension, ".NGO", be created and made exclusively available to nonprofit organizations.  Overseeing this extension is important to ensure protection from non-reputable companies portraying themselves as nonprofits.

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• Career Lapses: Raw Talent, You, and Reality

  Written by Gwen / on 10/12/2011 / 1 Comment

  A young graduate told me she was feeling like a failure in her first job after college. Her job lacked formal training, leadership, and guidance. Although she was trying to work through it by asking various people for help and working overtime, she felt exhausted and unsuccessful.

  I asked her what this experience taught her professionally and personally? Was she going to continue the cycle, hoping it would improve? Or, would she take her talent elsewhere? She didn't have many answers, because she was struggling between the reality of her job versus the concept of it.

  "The Paper versus Reality" conundrum ..

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• Career Directions: Anywhere But Here

  Written by Gwen / on 07/17/2011 / 0 Comments

  A friend of a friend was telling me about hating her job -how everything and everyone related to it emotionally drained her. She was bored, unchallenged, and a few other adjectives that meant she was leaving, resigning and didn't want to work there anymore. She said she spent every free and not so free moment looking for another job.

  
   I asked, "Are you Painfully Employed (PE)? Do you wake up every weekday with 101 reasons to call in... immediately followed by three motivating reasons to go in anyway?" She said, "YES, that's it!" For responsible people-- food, clothing, and shelter-- ..

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• Join our live Twitter Chat with Author Kevin McDonald on Preparing for the Cloud

  Written by Kylee / on 06/23/2011 / 0 Comments

  

  Join the ASAE Technology Council's Twitter chat this Friday, June 24 at 3pm EST to get tips on preparing for the cloud. Kevin T. McDonald (@cloudktm) is cloud strategist for ICF International based in Washington, D.C. and author of Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing. He works with a wide variety of public and private sector entities and is a member of the PMI Washington D.C. Chapter and is the International C2C representative to PMI UK and PMI Italy. He also serves on the Tech America Cloud Computing Committee, the ..

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• Don't forget to buy your ticket for "Show Me" Support For Joplin: A Red Tie Affair on Monday, June 13!

  Written by Kylee / on 06/08/2011 / 1 Comment

  

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