Note from Beth: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 11th. I've been honored to be a speaker at the past events held in San Francisco and would be there next except it conflicts with a NYC Measuring the Networked Nonprofit book tour dates. If you are in the San Francisco area, work in the nonprofit sector, and work on social media, you should attend this event. Guillaume Decugis, CEO, Scoop.it is on the agenda and most likely talking about … [Read more...]
Embrace the Data, Change the World
@kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/ — Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012 I'm in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! I shared an overview of networks for social change and some of the challenges that nonprofits face in … [Read more...]
To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and Is That The Question?):GlobalGiving’s Experiment With Facebook Promoted Posts
Note from Beth: Almost weekly, there is yet another tool, feature, or tactic that you can you try using as part of your social media tool box. But how do you know it is effective? Over the summer, Facebook has enabled you to pay for an individual post to be seen in more of your fans’ newsfeeds. If you are a FB Page administrator, you probably noticed the new metric Facebook has on the bottom of every post showing how many people it reached. Further, you probably wondered whether does it … [Read more...]
Big Data Without Defining Success First Is A Big Mistake
With the release of the "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World, I'm looking forward to participating in the conversation about how nonprofits can use measurement, data, and learning to for social change. We are living in a "Big Data" is a theme I'm seeing discussed this past month in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. It refers to large data sets that requires powerful software tools to capture, storage, search, sharing, analysis, visualization and … [Read more...]
Announcing Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Book
I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my second book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit:Using Data to Change the World," with co-author and measurement goddess KD Paine. The book is about how nonprofits can measure and improve results from leveraging their networks. The frameworks and tips we outlined were field tested in real-time as part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation with 60 of their grantees who participated in a peer learning/focuss group and … [Read more...]
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