Note from Beth: I'm packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called "Networked NGO." My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. Enjoy! Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed, Guest Post By Elisa Batista, Donna Norton, and Monifa Bandele from Momsrising It’s every blogger’s nightmare. … [Read more...]
How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!
I have been interested in visualization techniques, visual facilitation, and visual thinking since 1991 when I read Tony Buzan's book, "Using Both Sides of the Brain: Mind Mapping Techniques" that started me down a very slow and leisurely learning journey. This year I've been focusing on data visualization and techniques for nonprofits - and working on my visual thinking skills without letting my basic drawing skills become a barrier. I've been a fan of Dan Roam's work since his book "The … [Read more...]
Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?
I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, "The Machine is US/ing Us." I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised … [Read more...]
A Few Good Pinterest Tools, Tips, and Resources
Pinning Our Lives: Pinterest and Beyond View more presentations from Aliza Sherman Back in January, I wrote a post about Pinterest as a curation tool to organize and share visual content I've collected in a pleasing visual way. As the platform has evolved over the past few months, there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to "like" the brand more. I've be facilitating a few introductory workshops and … [Read more...]
Data Visualization Techniques for Those Who Can't Draw
Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Day View more presentations from burowe At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called "Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers" with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Shortly after, I decided to start curating resources on data visualization over at Scoop.It and continue to add the best stuff to the resources section on the session wiki. In my … [Read more...]
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