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What It’s Like to Join a Nonprofit Board (And Why You Might Want To)

Community Foundation meeting with engaged board members in San Carlos

Ever wondered what it’s like to serve on a nonprofit boardor how to find the right one for you? Here’s what I’ve learned as a first-time board member with the Community Foundation of San Carlos.

🚀 Launching Our New Ideation Service: Strategy You Can Book, When You Need It

Launching Our New Ideation Service: Strategy You Can Book, When You Need It

At Upendo Ventures, we’ve always believed in helping people move forward with confidence — whether that’s through launching a product, scaling a business, or solving tough technical challenges. Until now, most of that work has happened in long-term projects or behind the scenes.

Today, we’re launching something different. Something simple.

To Blog, or Not To Blog … It’s a Question of Value

Blog or Not Blog - Blogging Helps You Communicate and be a better Leader

Deciding to write a company blog can feel like kind of a big deal. What’s hard is being committed to the project and getting past the intimidation. First, let’s talk about why writing a blog is so important for businesses today. In short, it’s all about Leadership, Marketing, and Brand.

Upendo Ventures Will Be at DNN Summit 2018 in February

Will Strohl giving a keynote speech at Southern Fried DNN 2013

DNN Summit has a long history.  It’s grown a lot since 2009, when I first founded the Day of DotNetNuke conference.  Back then, I used to speak at pretty much every user group and conference I could get to.  I love public speaking.  I love helping people learn something new – or better – helping inspire people to try something they may have never before considered.  I took about 2 years off from speaking, and now… I’m back!  I’ll be speaking at DNN Summit!

Should You Accept That LinkedIn Connection Request?

Bruce Lee:

In most social networks, connecting with someone else can feel like a personal decision.  After all, if you accept a friend request in Facebook, you’ve just given access to all of your “private” images and updates.  They’ll see that embarrassing photo of you at the beach.  {GASP!}  This has trained us to be weary of who we allow to be “connected” with us online.  So much so that some people have private Twitter accounts.  (Something that I have yet to understand.)

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