Note from Beth: If you've been following my blog lately, you know I've been having this conversation with Marnie Webb about abundance. On Twitter, I asked Marnie for examples of abundance approaches in the nonprofit and she answered in her blog. Marnie says that nonprofits should own the impact and not the to dos, but I asked her but who will actually do the work? She says it is a mix between doing and curating, but the we've got to change the "I'll do it" as the default organizational … [Read more...]
Social Media Measurement for Nonprofits
Note from Beth: One thing I am trying to do with my Facebook Page is to model abundant behavior. My goal is to make it an online space for peer knowledge sharing, but what I hope will distinguish it from spaces is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources. This is wisdom that is happening in real time and the curation of real-time learning. While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme … [Read more...]
Send Steve Jobs A Message: Let Us Give Donations on the iPhone
Yesterday, I explained why I've decided to ditch my iPhone and get an Android. In short, Apple makes it really difficult for nonprofits to collect donations from within iPhone apps (read Jake Shapiro's Editorial or this post about why Apple pulled PayPal's app). Here's more about why it is important. I posted a link in the Zoetica Salon in Facebook and I tweeted about it - and this sparked a conversation with nonprofit colleagues. Many were annoyed. Sue Ann Reed from Care 2 set up an … [Read more...]
What is An Open Community?
Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace. I've been a big fan of openness and freely sharing community knowledge and have seen first hand from the early days of the social web the power of this - take for … [Read more...]
Why Should Nonprofits Choose Abundance (and Breathe)
Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter "e"? Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn't it give them more time to breathe? Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. Marnie Webb has been thinking about how the nonprofit sector might be different if organizations believed in abundance and re-thought their organizational structures and how they delivered programs as a result. Marnie points out that … [Read more...]
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