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Re: http://philanthrokate.com/post/5489947662

probablykate — Sun, 15 May 2011 12:43:04 -0000

Ah, did I get you by mentioning improving education? ;)

I think it's very difficult for a business to grow big without losing commitment to certain values. Patagonia is committed to high quality goods (suitable to their very active outdoorsy-type target market) and environmental issues. If I recall correctly they had a few issues where when they tried to manufacture goods in really large quantities because an item became popular with mainstream consumers, they ran into problems with suppliers.

They also have an unusual company culture. The reason why the book is called Let My People Go Surfing is because employees are literally allowed to skip out of work and go surfing for a few hours whenever they feel like it, as long as they get their work done. It's hard to maintain a really flexible work environment like that while growing rapidly, because you have to make really smart hires and have the right systems in place for personal accountability.

Re: http://philanthrokate.com/post/4572883984

probablykate — Sun, 08 May 2011 18:04:33 -0000

I agree with you Cody. I asked Sean in the comments of his first post on this subject what specific suggestions he had for making the same point in a position manner. One of his suggestions which I liked was: "Remember the 'one of these things is not like the other' segment on Sesame Street? I’m no marketing person, but I can image a great video that highlighted TOMS as 'not like' the other three very effective approaches to call TOMS out and then focus most of the video on the effective approaches."

Re: If Young People Care about Social Justice They Should Stop Pursuing Work/Life Balance—OnlyUp

probablykate — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:48:04 -0000

I believe that work/life balance is specific to the individual. You may have work/life balance spending most of your time working. Someone else may not. I'm like you right now--very little free time. I works for me now, but I'm starting to look forward to slowing it down soon.

Re: Young people, social media, and the changing relationship between foundations and the nonprofits they support—OnlyUp

probablykate — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:30:44 -0000

I have been wondering whether nonprofits could reduce the costs associated with grant funding by connecting directly with a large number of donors (each giving relatively small amounts) through social media. Not only do grant writing and data collection take time, but small nonprofits often end up "chasing" whatever trends are "hot" in the grantmaking community at that time and trying to fit their mission into that new trend. They may receive a large grant and deploy a lot of resources in that area, then just as suddenly lose the funding and have to lay off staff or scramble for additional funding.

Can increasing the number of individual donors (by connecting via social media, events, etc) change this dynamic for the better?

Re: Xenography: Being Published

probablykate — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:00:28 -0000

I thought I would read your sequel over winter break but that didn't happen, along with 10,000 other things I thought I was going to get done over winter break. But it really is still on my to-do list and I do want to read it!

Re: I’m somewhat stuck making up my mind

probablykate — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:49:47 -0000

FOLLOW YOUR HEART (.....................and your head)

Re: What one thing would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

probablykate — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:13:53 -0000

Wow. Thanks for sharing. Who's next?

Re: Winter Break Resolutions

probablykate — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:13:47 -0000

Ha... not well. Haven't done the first two at all, but I am getting a lot done for the consulting group (still lots more to go) and I did read one whole book for pleasure!

I just can't seem to make cleaning and exercising a priority!

Re: Pine Bush: a Novel in Installments for NaNoWriMo

probablykate — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:54:05 -0000

Yay! More!

Re: Winter Break Resolutions

probablykate — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:48:30 -0000

The problem is that these are the things I don't have time to do while I have classes. But I can do them during the break if I'm as disciplined as I am during the semesters. But it's hard to be that disciplined all the time.

Re: On constraints (hard drives / blogging)

probablykate — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:26:50 -0000

I dunno you're the wordy one complaining that you don't have the patience to fit your wordy thoughts into twitter. Wordy. :-P

Re: On constraints (hard drives / blogging)

probablykate — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:25:30 -0000

It's just a stereotype so of course there'll be patient men and impatient women. Or you've got the patience of a women :-P

Re: On constraints (hard drives / blogging)

probablykate — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:35:21 -0000

One of the things that I actually really enjoy about twitter is tinkering with my thoughts to make them fit the 140 character limit. Sometimes you realize how much more succinct you could be but usually aren't. Probably like right now. For someone who cares about writing (even as infrequently as I really write), it's an interesting exercise.

I remember seeing something somewhere that woman are statistically more likely than men to have tweets that are at or very close to the 140 character limit, and there was the commentary that this could mean woman are usually more patient than men, or something like that.

Re: Juvenile song I completely forgot.

probablykate — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:03:41 -0000

Brilliant! Start singing that and you could be rich.

Re: My obsession this week

probablykate — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:32:09 -0000

I was with you guys! But for some reason I can't get this song out of my head this week.

Re: Fun with CSA

probablykate — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:24:17 -0000

Both.

I did not know there was beet beer. I actually don't really like beets. That's why I had to do something crazy like beet dough pizza in order to use them.

Re: gideon's (other) bible

probablykate — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:53:02 -0000

What is this? A center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?

Re: If you ain't singin it's your own damn fault

probablykate — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:42:31 -0000

Actually a nonprofit I worked at used giant novelty checks at an awards event, but they were just that--novelty. They're for posing with in pictures, but the recipient receives a regular old check to take to the bank.

Re: If you ain't singin it's your own damn fault

probablykate — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:09:11 -0000

This is someone who's earned a BS AND MS, but I don't think english is their first language.

Re: Ken Tumbls

probablykate — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:53:18 -0000

That's awesome. I would love to go back again, but Adam and I are going to Puerto Rico in late March and that's going to be it for vacation for me for a while

Re: Ken Tumbls

probablykate — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:10:11 -0000

I went to Mexico City for 2008 New Years and it was very very awesome. I highly recommend it, unless you're looking for beach time. It is a truly incredible city. It made me want to move there and I still kind of do. When I came back I typed up a travel log of sorts and sent it out to folks. I don't remember if you were one of them. If you'd like I can send (or re-send) it to you.

Re: As far as I'll go - Super Efficient Floating Wind Turbines

probablykate — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:31:33 -0000

You will be receiving an invoice from me as well.

Re: If you ain't singin it's your own damn fault

probablykate — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:11:02 -0000

Sorry, the link was bad. Try again.

Re: If you ain't singin it's your own damn fault

probablykate — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:11:35 -0000

Yup, he's the drexel logo. During new employee orientation on my first day, we had to talk about the logo and why drexel and all that stuff, and I had the strongest urge to pull my shirt down to show my dragon tattoo on my boob and yell something like "YEAH DRAGONS RULE! THIS IS WHY I GOT HIRED!" but I didn't

Re: A short auto-biography (posted at last), refocusing my tumbls

probablykate — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:50:51 -0000

Of course we care silly! And I for one am very much looking forward to some gospel music.