Kim Dority, Part 4: Sustaining the Cause

Keeping in mind the mission is [to] disseminate information that helps people change their lives…, who can we work with that will allow us to move that …mission forward? –Kim Dority This final part of my interview with Kim was the most illuminating part of our conversation (at least for me!) Kim talks about ways…

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Kim Dority, Part 3: Using Social Media to Build Community

We’re hoping to use the social media tools both to talk about what Disaboom is doing, but also to gather information from a broader community as well, which we can then understand, synthesize and make public. –-Kim Dority In this third part of the interview, Kim Dority talks about using social media to grow the…

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Kim Dority, Part 2: Building Community, Top-Down and Bottom-Up

How many ways can we complement each others’ missions? We are not here to compete but we are here to help everyone in this space. —Kim Dority, talking about how Disaboom collaborates with other disability-oriented organizations. In this second part of a four-part interview, Kim Dority from Disaboom reminds us to look broadly for community…

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Interview With Kim Dority, Part 1

In this next interview for A Bigger Voice, I talk with with Kim Dority, VP of Content for Disaboom.com, an online community with over 90,000 registered users, for people with disabilities and those whose lives they touch. Disaboom has been widely recognized (by organizations as diverse as the Obama campaign, Business Week, Ford, and major…

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Patricia Ryan Madson, Part 3: Building Community and Moving Into Action

"Bold persistent experimentation. These are the times we are in now."–Patricia Ryan Madson This is the third and final segment of my interview with Patricia Ryan Madson, author of Improv Wisdom. I offer up suggestions on how to leverage her use of marketing, networking, and technology to create a vibrant community, based on the terrific…

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