My colleague, Alexandra Samuel, wrote a provocative post on the HBR blog titled, "Dear Colleague, Put Down Your Notebook" where she makes an argument for switching to digital note taking tools like Evernote is more efficient than taking notes on paper. (She recently authored an excellent e-book on how to use Evernote). I agree with Alexandra's point about efficiency, but I don't always think that digital note taking is always effective for certain situations. I tend to use both. For … [Read more...]
How To Make Content Creation More Efficient: Use An Idea Dashboard
Been thinking a lot about of the work processes around creating content and measuring its against outcomes this week. One idea that came up in my post earlier this week about creating and measuring content, was the concept of an idea dashboard. This post takes it a bit deeper. Sustaining a content strategy requires establishing a good pipeline of content and engagement across channels. It starts, of course, with identifying your audience and objectives and gets better with … [Read more...]
6 Ways Nonprofits Learn from Affordable Losses or Little Bets To Improve Impact
Best moment of #MIForum?Lifting my arms and voices to say "I FAILED, NOW LETS MOVE ON."Led by @kanter — Wendy Hanamura (@WHanamura) January 25, 2013 Last Friday, Media Impact Funders brought together technologists, journalists, philanthropists and innovators for a day-long conversation on the future of media and tech innovation. I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact … [Read more...]
Content Strategy, Creation, Organization, and Measurement
Some of you may remember that I shared a depressing screen capture of my Facebook Insights visual right after taking a two-week break during the holidays. The comments in the thread were terrific and generated a blog post: https://bethkanter.org/getting-started. But more importantly, I wanted to close the loop and show you that after getting back to a consistent editorial calendar, the engagement and reach came back from vacation. Now, I think I just might be able to enjoy my next vacation … [Read more...]
A Nonprofit's Legal Counsel Is The Social Media Manager's Best Friend!
That headline isn't a lawyer joke. And let me say upfront, I respect lawyers and legal issues that nonprofits and foundations have to navigate around social media. However, I realize that in some nonprofits the relationship between in-house legal counsel or the organization's lawyers is based on fear and control. As a social media nonprofit professional mentioned in a Facebook thread recently, "I've observed interesting dynamics with legal counsel over social media with the result of … [Read more...]
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