Yesterday, Holly Ross at NTEN, mentioned that a common question she gets after talking about Social Media with nonprofits is from organizations that work with students or young people and are concerned about liability issues surrounding what students who "like" their page may post on their page, or on their own walls. I've also gotten similar questions, particularly about whether or not it is "safe" for the organization (and the young people) to post photos on Facebook. Earlier this week, I … [Read more...]
Are You Charting Impact of Your Social Media?
The BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar USA and Independent Sector launched “Charting Impact,” a standard framework to easily and clearly understand the objectives, benchmarks for progress, and impact of nonprofits and foundations. Charting Impact uses five deceptively simple questions that require reflection and discussion about what really matters – results. What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your strategies for making this happen? What are your organization’s … [Read more...]
Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences
If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It has been over six years since I designed and delivered my first webinar/conference call, "Designing Effective Technology Training Workshops for Nonprofits" with NTEN. Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used … [Read more...]
Social Media, Foundations, and Grantees: What Works, What Doesn't?
This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy's conference "Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact" where I participated on a panel about social media, foundations, and grantees. Vincent Stehle moderated and other panelists included Paula Goldman, Omidyar Network, Jacob Harold, Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travis Manzione, Director of Assessment Tools for CEP. Travis Manzione shared some preliminary data from a survey of over 2,000 grantees from … [Read more...]
What is the scaffolding for learning in public?
I've been writing about wikis (and other social technologies) can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “learning in public.” You can learn in public in different ways - self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. The Packard Foundation's organizational effectiveness wiki has an excellent example of this networked approach to public learning … [Read more...]
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