Note from Beth: One of the themes I've been exploring over the last few years related to networks is transparency. We devoted a whole chapter to the topic in the Networked Nonprofit. In my next book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" my co-author KD Paine and I take a look at how you measure it. First it requires understanding the definition. Transparency is more than disclosure. It includes participation in acquiring, distributing, and creating knowledge or what my colleagues at the OE … [Read more...]
How Facebook Changes Are Impacting Engagement on Brand Pages and What Nonprofits Should Do About It
Measure Networked Nonprofit View more presentations from Beth Kanter As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I've facilitated many peer learning groups on effective social media, networked nonprofits, and measurement. Several of groups serves as testers of the various ideas in my forthcoming book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with co-author KD Paine. While it was a little like changing a flat tire on a moving car to test frameworks while writing … [Read more...]
Pinterest: A Tool To Curate Relevant Visual Content for Your Audience
Pinterest is a virtual pinboard where you can organize and share images and videos you discover on the web. Think of it as social network of visuals - where you can find images from other people with the same interest or use it to curate your own visual "interest space." The clean interface and simplicity of its features make it easy to use and gives you a calm feeling which perhaps accounts for its popularity. At first glance, the site attracts people interested in using it for non-work … [Read more...]
Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements
Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using. But, how do you measure the results? Marino Morino, who wrote "Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity" pointed me to this recent report, "Transactions, Transformations, Translations: Metrics That Matter for Building, Scaling and Funding Social Movements" by Manual Paster, Jennifer Ito, and Rachel Rosner with the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and funded by the … [Read more...]
The Fives Stages of Measurement Acceptance
Infographics, if done well, can be a useful way to boil down key principles, ideas, or themes. They're gaining popularity everywhere, including the nonprofit sector. More and more nonprofits are starting to use them and it isn't difficult to find lots of examples and curate them. KD Paine, my co-author of the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit (due out in later in 2012), pointed me to this gem of a measurement checklist in an infographic format. I like the positive frame they put on … [Read more...]
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