Note from Beth: My colleagues at Network Impact have released an important report about measuring and evaluating "civic tech" based on their experience working with Knight Foundation grantees. It goes beyond just analytics tools to exploring tools, techniques, and data for measuring deep civic engagement, open governance, and inclusive decision-making. My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you'll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2015
The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes
Last week, Andrea Kihlstedt and I did a reprise of our Guidestar webinar, "Healthy and Productive Meetings" as a learning session for Guidestar staff. Guidestar has multiple office locations, so this session was done as a virtual meeting using a platform and apps that offered features like chat, desktop sharing, polling, white board, sticky notes, and audio and video conferencing. As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of "modeling the model," so we wanted to use and model best … [Read more...]
My Most Engaged Follower On Twitter Is @JenniferPreston
My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. I know why Jennifer, who is the VP at the Knight Foundation is one of my engaged followers this week. Earlier this week I was in Miami to do a social media pre-workshop at the Knight Digital Media Seminar. Jennifer was observing and tweeting during the session. (If you want to read the re-caps or view the videos for the seminar itself, the Knight Foundation blog has full documentation here). On the other hand, my most … [Read more...]
What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum
I just spent two days in Miami at the Knight Foundation Media Learning Seminar where I co-facilitate a pre-conference workshop on leading on social channels with Amy Gahran and Stephanie Rudat. But I also got an opportunity to finally hear the keynote speaker, Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer of the @MetMuseum in person. I've been fan for a long time, but never had the chance to meet or hear him in person. Sree is authentic, humble, and always making connections. When I asked for a … [Read more...]
Why Good Habit Formation Is Important for Nonprofits
For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month. It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring. The approach tests a hypothesis that emerging leaders need to … [Read more...]
