Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, "What tools are in your tool box?" It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I've been working on "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" with co-author KD Paine, we've come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who … [Read more...]
Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training
As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I've had the pleasure of working on a social media capacity building project with Liane Wong, Program Officer, grantees of in the "Insuring America's Children: Getting to the Finish Line" and Ed Walz, and all the good folks at SpitFire Strategies. We have designed and been delivering "Friending the Finish Line" with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall … [Read more...]
When Is One Million Fans on Facebook Worth More Than A Million Bucks?
Answer: When they are engaged and ready to take action for you! Earlier this month. the Humane Society of United States reached 1 million fans on its Facebook Page. Says Carie Lewis, director of Emerging for the HSUS, “Although we prefer not to focus on numbers as a measurement of social media success, one million fans is a huge landmark that we are celebrated with our online community.” We know that animal welfare nonprofit rule on Facebook, but how did HSUS do this? Says Carie, “By … [Read more...]
24 hours, millions of dollars, thousands of nonprofits—What gives in Minnesota?
Note from Beth: Last week, Washington, DC held its first ever Give to the Max Day where 1300 nonprofits were fundraising and experimenting with social media tools and raised over $2 million in 24 hours. The campaign was modeled after the grand daddy of match days that happens throughout the entire state of Minnesota. Launched in 2009, the third match day will happen on Wednesday, November 16th. Jeff Achen gives us the inside view. Good luck and Go Minnesota! Guest post by Jeff Achen, … [Read more...]
How To Recognize Great Content Curation: Curating Curators
Content curation: Best practices View more presentations from Trafalgar Communications (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for finding this deck) Dilbert characters are talking about content curation.. Scoop.It one of the premiere content creation tools is now out beta. In my own curation of content, I'm discovering many more content curators out there. Everyone can be a content curator! That prompted Robin Good, a master curator, to ask "How do we distinguish good curation from bad?" … [Read more...]
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