Source: Uploaded by user via Beth on Pinterest The newest social media darling is Pinterest, a platform that nonprofits can use to curate compelling visual content. Pinterest, with its ease of use and the pleasing beautiful sea of visuals, is the perfect place to curate inspiration for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Like Whitney Friedlander, I decided to mark MLK Day holiday by searching and curating some inspiring images that link to great content about one of this country's greatest … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?
Note from Beth: Over five years ago, I connected with Sam Mayfield, an independent media maker, through my blog. In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college. This was the very beginning of what we're calling crowd funding or social … [Read more...]
Learning Out Loud – Guest Post by Linda Wood – Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund
Note from Beth: One of the themes I've been exploring over the last few years related to networks is transparency. We devoted a whole chapter to the topic in the Networked Nonprofit. In my next book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" my co-author KD Paine and I take a look at how you measure it. First it requires understanding the definition. Transparency is more than disclosure. It includes participation in acquiring, distributing, and creating knowledge or what my colleagues at the OE … [Read more...]
How Facebook Changes Are Impacting Engagement on Brand Pages and What Nonprofits Should Do About It
Measure Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I've facilitated many peer learning groups on effective social media, networked nonprofits, and measurement. Several of groups serves as testers of the various ideas in my forthcoming book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with co-author KD Paine. While it was a little like changing a flat tire on a moving car to test frameworks while writing … [Read more...]
Pinterest: A Tool To Curate Relevant Visual Content for Your Audience
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can organize and share images and videos you discover on the web. Think of it as social network of visuals - where you can find images from other people with the same interest or use it to curate your own visual "interest space." The clean interface and simplicity of its features make it easy to use and gives you a calm feeling which perhaps accounts for its popularity. At first glance, the site attracts people interested in using it for non-work … [Read more...]
