[slideshare id=16984179&doc=bethkanter-slides-socialgood-summit-130306131919-phpapp02] This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. I started presenting at SXSW in 2008 and have gone annually (except last year I took a year off). I've watched over the years as the presence of social good and nonprofits folks has grown over the years, although this year it felt like contracted because there were … [Read more...]
Happy International Women's Day!
Today is International Women's Day which has been observed since the early 1900s (here's a good history). On March 8th every year, thousands of events are held throughout the world to inspire and celebrate women. The UN highlights a different theme for International Women's Day. This year's theme is a call to action to end violence against women. The United Nations Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, BabyCenter, The Huffington Post, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have joined … [Read more...]
PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding
Note from Beth: I'm headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. David is based on Austin -- wanted to share with you a post about crowdfunding to celebrate Austin Giving Day #AmplifyAtx that raised over $2 million earlier this week. PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding - guest post by David Neff Crowdfunding. Crowdfunding. Crowdfunding. The … [Read more...]
What is your organization's "One Metric That Matters"?
Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common - including finding the "One Metric that Matters." Here's a quick review of both books. While I was working "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" with KD Paine … [Read more...]
Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development
Flickr Photo by Kevlar Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization's overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Let's say you want to improve engagement with stakeholders and your KPI is an increase in the number of comments on your social platforms. How do you pick that number? Measurement is a comparative science, so you have to compare … [Read more...]
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