I just published a blog post over at the SSIR blog called "Bringing a Network Mindset to Board Development." If you thinking about combining a network mindset with social networking tools, you and your board can recruit both the best talent to join your board and the people with the best networks. Having a robust, well-connected network can help your nonprofit find new resources, get new ideas and inspiration, and be more effective. My blog post shares some ideas about how to do this and … [Read more...]
Watching Our Vote Live on Twitter
I am in Brasil to keynote the Social Good Brasil Conference (had to vote early), but I can still watch democracy unfold in real-time through my friends updates on Twitter, Facebook, and other social channels. I love seeing these photos of polling places where my friends are voting. But you can also see aggregated information about the voting process on Our Vote Live created by Election Protection,Lawyers' Committee, NOI, and Ushahidi. It is mapping out all reported voting/election … [Read more...]
How #GivingTuesday is using Champions
Giving Tuesday hopes to spark a movement of people and organizations who want to celebrate giving and encourage more and smarter giving during the holiday season. The intent is to create an annual national day of giving on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving or this year on November 27, 2012. The campaign will encourage philanthropic activities that support nonprofit organizations. I heard about it in September and immediately signed up to be a social media ambassador which was a … [Read more...]
Say So What To Your Data Three Times
Last week KD Paine and I were in Washington, DC for a whirlwind of book discussions, parties, and workshops - together and individually - for the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Global Giving generously hosted a book discussion with their staff and partners at their offices. It was great to see Alison Carlman and Kevin Conroy from Global Giving and Meg Biallis who were participants in the testing group of 60 Packard grantees who tested the book frameworks and contributed to the insights … [Read more...]
Three Analytics Tools to Gauge Your Social Audience’s Pulse
Note from Beth: "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful! In the book, we avoid talking about specific tools because they … [Read more...]
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