[slideshare id=21621705&doc=measuringwhatmattersmay2013final-130521135935-phpapp01] I've been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Last week, I came across this excellent deck and blog post from the Knight Foundation's VP of Strategy and Assessment, Mayur H. Patel. The presentation was prepared for the Miami Philanthropy Conference and addresses a familiar issue: … [Read more...]
Does This Deserve My Attention?
Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be in New Zealand, leading a workshop on social media and I facilitated a module on mindful social media. It seemed very appropriate given that my host, Stephen Blyth, collaborated with Peter Sykes, CEO & Founder at Mangere East Family Service Centre and we held the workshop on a Marae. Peter greeted me at the airport and as I got into the car I noticed a copy of Rheingold's book NetSmart in the back seat. Yesterday, this tweet from Howard Rheingold, … [Read more...]
Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?
How do you learn? When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? Or do you learn better when you get a chance to process the content every 15 minutes by thinking about it quietly or talking with a peer? Do you concentrate better when you move around versus sitting for too long? I know for … [Read more...]
Trainer's Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings
I've just returned from an amazing trip of facilitating workshops, discussions and master classes as well as a keynoting a conference on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" in Australia and New Zealand. It made me very happy to be teaching non-stop for almost two weeks. I'm always learning as I help others learn. Here's a couple of reflections from my "trainer's notebook." I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called "The Networked NGO in New Zealand," this workshop … [Read more...]
#datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts
Source: Gemma Correll - I Love Charts Note from Beth: I just knew that I was going to start obsessing about charts and graphs after my Excel spreadsheet obsessions started. I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets, but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. What better way than in Excel. I got into a wonderful conversation with Stephanie Evergreen, another nonprofit datanerd who loves spreadsheets who offered to write up this guest … [Read more...]
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