Note from Beth: Recently, Networked for Good offered a free e-book about how nonprofits can development a micro-content for their social media presences filled with useful tips and best practices. Carie Lewis gives an excellent mini case study of how to leverage micro content during the holiday and get results. What is Your Nonprofit’s Holiday Content Strategy for Facebook? by Carie Lewis At The Humane Society of the United States, we pride ourselves on on listening. But it’s not just … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
Examples of Abundance in the Arts: Ask A Conductor on Twitter
Note from Beth: If you've been following my blog lately, you know I've been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. On Twitter, I asked Marnie for examples of abundance approaches in the nonprofit and she answered in her blog. Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work? She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we've got to change the "I'll do it" as the default organizational … [Read more...]
Social Media Measurement for Nonprofits
Note from Beth: One thing I am trying to do with my Facebook Page is to model abundant behavior. My goal is to make it an online space for peer knowledge sharing, but what I hope will distinguish it from spaces is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources. This is wisdom that is happening in real time and the curation of real-time learning. While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme … [Read more...]
Send Steve Jobs A Message: Let Us Give Donations on the iPhone
Yesterday, I explained why I've decided to ditch my iPhone and get an Android. In short, Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps (read Jake Shapiro's Editorial or this post about why Apple pulled PayPal's app). Here's more about why it is important. I posted a link in the Zoetica Salon in Facebook and I tweeted about it - and this sparked a conversation with nonprofit colleagues. Many were annoyed. Sue Ann Reed from Care 2 set up an … [Read more...]
What is An Open Community?
Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace. I've been a big fan of openness and freely sharing community knowledge and have seen first hand from the early days of the social web the power of this - take for … [Read more...]
