Crowdsourcing is the process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. The results are greater than an individual or organization could accomplish alone. There are many examples of crowdsourcing techniques used by nonprofits and foundations and The Networked Nonprofit devoted an entire chapter to the topic. Does crowdsourcing enhance or bring value to face-to-face conferences? Where is it most useful? Planning for the overall conference agenda, … [Read more...]
The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action
The Colbert Report Tags: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive Last week at the TechSoup Global Summit, I had an opportunity to meet Annie Leonard and do a quick interview about their lessons learned working as a networked. As I listened to her speak about their experience, I knew this would be a terrific case study to share in Beirut as an example of working in a networked way. Annie was kind enough to give me her notes so I could … [Read more...]
Bringing a Network Mindset To Nonprofit Boards
Note from Beth: A few weeks ago, the Leadership Learning Community invited me into their board meeting. Not just to quietly listen, but participate in the discussion about applying a networked lens to nonprofit governance. (If you want to better understand what the term network mindset and what it has to do with nonprofit leadership, check out their recent paper on the topic.) Guest Post: Bringing a Network Mindset to Our Nonprofit Board by Deborah Meehan Over the last month as we prepared … [Read more...]
Lessons from Red Cross: Twitter Mistakes and How To Handle Them
Back over the summer, I wrote a post called "What was your worst social media mistake? What did you learn?" If you read through the comments, misdirected tweets (tweets sent to an organizational account, not a personal account or private message sent out to all) were the most common. These ranged from tweeting about a favorite television show to much worse, tweeting the "c-word" Back in November, someone in Senator Dowd's office made this epic Twitter mistake. They apologized and … [Read more...]
TechSoup Global Summit: Inspiration Overload
I spent the last two days at the TechSoup Global Summit getting inspiration overload about social media, networks, social network mapping, networks of networks, global peer learning, building a sector, nonprofit technology, and many other ideas I'm passionate about. But it wasn't just the ideas, it was also the people and making connections to colleagues I've known for more than a decade and connections to new people. I'm still processing, but here are some nuggets that I learned: Modeling … [Read more...]
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