Joe’s Leadership Blog

Welcome to my blog.  I will be writing about leadership as it pertains to the non-profit organization as well as teen leadership.  I have been blessed to have some great mentors.  I hope that through this blog I can pass on some knowledge to others.  Working in a non-profit, it is difficult to focus on what’s important-the kids, staff development and organizational capacity-without having the day to day needs intrude.  I hope to offer some insight on how to work on what’s important as well as how to take your organization to the next level.  Please comment (click on the button at the bottom of each post that reads “No Comments” to add to the conversation.  Feel free to e-mail me at unclejoesleadershipblog@gmail.com to ask questions or to offer advise. 

For those who are unfamiliar with blogging, here are some helpful hints:

What is a blog?   John Dorvak has an overview of what a blog is here and Wikipedia has more than you’ll ever want to know here.

Subscriptions-You can subscribe to the blog using an RSS reader or e-mail.  This means you don’t have to visit the web-page to find out if I have made a post that day. If you read a lot of blogs like I do, the advantage of using a reader is that you can go to one page and read 100 blogs in about a 1/2 hour.
How to subscribe:
RSS- There are many free “readers” out there including  Google and Yahoo.  They can be standalone or built into your homepage (iGoogle, MyYahoo).  If you already have the reader or homepage, then just click on the Subscribe to my blog via RSS button (bright orange RSS logo)and choose the correct logo (Google, yahoo etc.). 

E-mail-Click on the subscribe to Uncle Joe’s Leadership Blog by e-mail in the upper right corner (just below the RSS feed).  It will prompt you for your e-mail address and to type in the letters/numbers on the screen to prove you are a person and not a computerized robot.  It will then send you an e-mail daily with any blog posts from that day.  There is no cost to this either.

What are those funny buttons at the bottom of every post under Share and Enjoy?  They are social networking icons.  If you like the post, you can save or favorite to sites such as Digg, Technorati, Stumble Upon and others.  This is the 21st century version of word of mouth-check out this cool article.  Some people are linked into these sites, so that when their friends recommend something, they see it.  It also raises the profile of a blog,  encouraging the general public to check out a blog.