Council on Foundations View more presentations from Beth Kanter Yesterday, I had the honor of facilitating a workshop on culture change and social media at the Council on Foundations Conference for Community Foundations in San Francisco. John Kobara, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, California Community Foundation, was the session designer and introduced the session with a famous quote from Peter Drucker, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." Instituting a new … [Read more...]
Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman
Note from Beth: My colleague, Aliza Sherman, has written a book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crowdsourcing and you drop everything and buy it now. We've been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman If you are considering incorporating crowdsourcing principles or processes into your workflow, you should also thinking about how you’ll measure the results of your … [Read more...]
What's the Secret to Social Media Success? Cute Animal Theory
What will it take to get the climate some attention? Cute Dog Photos! That's Sam, grist.org's office puppy. We know that people would much rather look at pictures of cute dogs than think about downers like climate change. So, grist-.org is using Sam to call attention to the environment and harness puppy power on behalf of the climate. They're inviting folks to submit their own cute dog photos grist.org has discovered what social media folks who work for zoos, aquariums, and animal welfare … [Read more...]
grist.org: Measuring Along the Ladder of Engagement
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I'm sharing what I learned. I'm curious to hear from all of you if you've developed a ladder of engagement and how it guides your social media integrated strategy - and measurement approach. Chip Giller launched grist.org in 1999 to counter the stereotype that all environmentalists … [Read more...]
Celebrating 25 Years Today: Some Thoughts About Relationships and Networks
Twenty five years ago on this date (September 14th), my husband and I got married! We've been together for 32 years! I marked my 20th anniversary in Flickr and on YouTube with this video (darn the gown doesn't fit!) I checked out Rob Cottingham and Alex Samuels geek anniversary gift list and it looks like photography equipment is how you're supposed to mark a quarter century of marriage - probably in focal lengths of 25 mm? Instead, decided to make a donation to charity:water during … [Read more...]
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